Polarbear78

Okay! sounds great. Thanks for hosting! I'm getting addicted to these swaps... 8th one in less than a month :yahoo:

Got mine done... addy please and I'll send them in next week.... you're only letting 12 in the swap correct?

FLIES IN THE MAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :yahoo:

Are you able to guesstimate the time it takes to make one? I've tied some poppers up...but I have bought the hard foam bodies...don't have the time to make popper bodies...it looks nice though. Good job.

This is more or less what I'll be tying. It still needs a little tweaking. I'll probably do a coloration with olive or silver on top and white on bottom.

Hook: TMC 9395 #6 in back # 4 in front

Back Section

Tail: Marabou

Body: UV Pearl Ice dub

Hackle: Schlappen

Rubber Legs

I'll more than likely add a lazer dub wing

Front Section connected with 30lb braid and 2 glass beads

Body and hackle same as back

Weight: There's a tungsten cone hidden behind the head. It also acts as a spacer to keep the head full

Head: Lazer dub with eyes glued on

 

-Mike

Can I get an addy please? They will be in your hands next week!

 

Didn't really realize how much material you go through to tie up 6 bass bugs...maybe because I've never tied this many up at the same time...

 

Addy sent your way and yes the materials will fly when your making bass bugs

They will be in the mail tomorrow! Thanks for hosting

I'm in. -Wax worm

Hope they work well for ya!

I got a nice tasty set of flies from the polarbear. :clapping: Nice job.

 

Kevin

Glad they made it down there alright! Can't wait to see what the others tie!

I would be in- I could tie up some wax worms...

Can I get an addy please? They will be in your hands next week!

Didn't really realize how much material you go through to tie up 6 bass bugs...maybe because I've never tied this many up at the same time...

4 of 6 Fro Hawks complete. Should have them in the mail next week for you

:wallbash:

 

I think the whole thing boils down to just be on time! I've been in several swaps where the same swapper is consistently late in getting his flies in by the due date, and there is always an excuse or several excuses. Numerous times he said the flies were in the mail only to have them not arrive at their dustination for many weeks after the due date was up. This particular swapper is not from out of the country so there isn't the customs or postal issues like the international swappers deal with. If you follow some of the swaps that are going on right now, this same swapper is still not making the swap deadlines. When there is a swapper like this signing up for a majority of the swaps, he is taking away the opportunity from others who would like to participate and would obey the rules. I think there should be a way to ban or put a swapper like this on notice so that he could not participate in swaps for a mandatory probation period, maybe this way he'll learn to be on time. From here on out when I host a swap I'll only wait a few days past the deadline for the flies to arrive, then I'm going to call the swap finished and ship the flies. We can't go on as hosts tolerating consistent and blatant disregard for the other participants in the swap! Well there is my take on the whole issue.:kicking:

 

flytyman1

100% agree. I'm currently hosting a swap on a different site... due date was originally March 10, one guy wanted it pushed back to March 15...So I did being nice about it. I'm still waiting on 1 persons to come in...I feel bad waiting and waiting...I wanna get them back ASAP... I think it's just a problem that will never go away...no matter what solutions you try

As far as jigs go, it's usually best to keep them simple. I tie some with rabbit strip tails, a few strands of flash & a wrapped rabbit body, or some type of hair, like bucktail, fox tail, or bear hair. I try to keep them rather sparse, as they work better this way. That's as complicated as I get! Pretty simple stuff.

 

As far as keeping secrets, if those guys sell their jigs, then they likely just don't want anyone copying them & then selling them. But, it does happen.

 

Being in a center pin thread, they're likely Steelhead or Salmon jigs, and those guys are just as crazy in their own way as we are! I had a guy ask me years ago if I could tie jigs for him. He had a special jig he used for Steelhead, and couldn't keep up with the demand. But, he wouldn't send me a sample, he was afraid I would copy it & sell them too! It's not easy giving a guy a price when you don't even know what it is he wants tied! :crazy:

 

:cheers:

Yep. steelhead it was for...I just checked. but these are the type of jigs you use for like crappies or something...the kind with the lead head on them...and just marabou on it with chenille....how fancy can they really make them?

I read about it under a center pin thread...so I don't think it was like a fly...my guess it that it was the jigs that have the different lead weight on top...I have tied marabou and such on some before just experimenting...but I didn't think that you would really be able to do a swap from that for different "patterns".... I'll check those you tube videos out later...maybe I am missing something here....wouldn't be the first time I make something simple complicated :wallbash:

Can someone explain this to me? Is it just tying fly tying material onto the weighted jigs? I saw a jig swap on another site...I tried to ask but the jack weed over there refused to post pics of say anything in fear of giving others up their secrets and that if we wanna know what it is, we should have joined the swap. I have used the jigs with marabou and flashing and chenille tied on for steel head and such. Is this what they are referring to? If so, why are they being so secretive? How could color choice or something cause them to not wanna show others or even speak of it...am I missing something here?

Nice! Do you get the ribbing then in the body from wrapping your thread around and up the hook? I've tried making waxies using rubber band...it looked okay, but I like this look much better. The ones on rubber band were a little to large for my liking...wanted to use a smaller hook, but then the proportion just didn't look right...I'll give this a try though!

Got one tied up last night, I'll try to post a pic of it later on. Hope you guys like it! The only thing I hate about deer hair is it takes so darn long to do for just one fly!!! But I think spun deer hair is pretty cool looking when finished :yahoo:

what kind of vice is that?

Can't tell for sure, but it appears to be a type of small hackle pliers holding the hook...maybe something like this hackle pliers

Flies in the mail- should be there Friday or Monday. Thanks for hosting

By going with 4 wks you are almost excluding the Canadian tiers, we have a crap postal system and it can take 3 weeks for mail from you to us, please look at a min of 6 weeks, some of us in Canada are regular swappers and don't want to be excluded for the short comings of others. By tracking some of the swaps you can see who the persistent offenders are, don't punish the rest uf us.

 

Fly tryer

Holy cow! I have never shipped internationally...didn't know it was that bad! Then I would agree that a short swap would be unfair to people in your situation... Perhaps if the SM would arrange the due date depending on location of all the tiers? If everyone is in the country it's less time? Or also like a previous comment said, try to have an "in mail date" and a due date....

When I enter swaps I try to have them all tied and mailed within a week...that way if I do get busy with life I still have time... I think the longer the deadline the worse it is...more time for people to procrastinate and forget... I'm all for real quick turn arounds and short swaps... plus you get them back sooner that way

just finished up here is a crappy cell phone pic... hope everyone enjoys them

 

Lookin good...can't wait to fish those! :yahoo:

How do you use the caulk to make poppers? do you need to put it in a mold some how? What brand do you use for this?

I've decided on my patterns...the eyed one will be a little spun deer hair with little eyes (yup, very mini bass bugs...something I came up with over the winter while bored...) and the hackled one will be a version of a soft hackled wooly worm.