troutguy

Merle thanks for running the swap. Got the flies, thanks guys.

I will tie a Davidson Special. It is a Cahill style fly with a very pale green blend of fox fur for the body. Size twelve. I have to see if I can get a pale green. The original was dyed fox. He used willow bark to dye the fox fur. Mahlon Davidson was probably the best tier that most have never heard of. He was one of the last to make solid wood fly rods. My fall back will be a blue fox pattern.

http://www.danica.com/flytier/dbrandt/dbrandt.htm http://www.cffcm.net/ These are two good sites for catskill style flies. .

I would love to be in this.

Carefully straighten the eye. Use the hook to tie very small Thunder Creek dace, brown top, black middle, white bottom. they are very good fished down and across. A great low water streamer. Also, red short tail, silver tinsel body with a coyote or badger guard hair tied bucktail style. These work great in small streams and for bream. I tie both sizes 16 to 10. I like it for a stonefly nymph hook also.

Mine are in the mail.

I sent package on Saturday. It had three flies. I did not see any toe tag requirement. The three are widely different.

So as to not get too many similar I will make mine whatever gets the most votes: 1. Blue,olive and kelly green over white 2. Red over white 3. Orange over white 4. Brown, black over white

Bill Don't mean to be forward, but if you wanted a vote, I'd vote for the Madtom. I have heard that the Madtom is a great large trout fly. But a blue and white would be a great striper fly also.

Thanks. It's a neat trick that my Grandfather showed me, back in the sixties when I was young. He fished a fly like that a lot. He also fished two feather mayflies. You don't see them much either.

DUH!!!! I'll send them with my swap flies.

I'm not at home so I don't have book. It is a dry fly caddis with the wing made from a featherclipped off and pulled backwards. I live in SC. If you use a wood duck or mallard breast feather it forms a tent when you tie it. If you use a regular hackle feather, it makes a great stonefly wing. I tie small black stoneflies with antennae. PM me your addy and I will send you some.

I have a caddis in the book. I saw the book in a Orvis shop and was loking at it. I saw a fly that looks like one I fish a lot. I don't see many people tie one like it. I looked at the fly and saw it was mine. I had to buy the book then.

tdeyette are the caddis in Patent Patterns yours that you are tying?

If there is a spot, put me down. You ran a good Thunder Creek swap.

I have a 20 inch traditional cutter that works great for strips. My wife has one of those that you pull the cutter across. The paper holder is only for one sheet of paper. It does not do well with foam.

I never saw this in NY, but down here people make a worm out of leather and fish it. It is just like the old pork rind for bass trick. The worm is stiff until it gets wet.

CM the lot went for 99 cents. The shipping covered that flat rate box plus about 75 more cents. The hair that is left is tight. The coyote is almost white. Not bleached. I have shot coyotes and this one is really prime. It has a lot of good fur for dubbing. I love coyote guard hairs for streamers, legs and tails. The guy had like 3000 sales and 100% feedack so I figured why not.

I agree with Redwings, very sculpin looking. Nice fly for trout too I would imagine. I can not tell, is there a collar on the fly that adds flash in the one photo? I am going tie some of those for trout with lead heads. thanks for the pattern.

You have to know the people and that's hard sometimes on a board. I jumped into my first swap with an SM that wasn't the best, My last two the SM's have been great. I think that life experience has a lot to do with everything. The organization and people skills of the SM really makes the swap work more then the participants.

It's always a gamble. I have soaked some in an alum solution to keep the leather tight to clean them. A boraxed hide will last decades if you keep them dry. Bad tanning is why you got them. Otherwise they would be in awindow in NYC or a woman's neck. I love buying scrap tanned fur on eBay. I got like 20 fox and coyote faces for a real cheap price once ($5 for all). Some natural, some black. I gave a couple away and have traded some away. The color variations of the naturals are pretty cool. I have never been burned by a reputable seller. They always have made good (only two problems in alot of sales). I just got a skunk, coyote and raccoon for 99 cents! The shipping was $8.

I think that a monthly contest would be cool Alex, but we have the yearly contest now and this would kind of compete with it. Did anyone ever get a reply from the magazine? I saw that quite a few people looked at this post. Not sure if anyone emailed.

Buzfly, I did email the show website twice. Never received any acknowledgement. I appreciate the shows, but they should not have downsized. Maybe Charlotte is not a large enough market to support the show. The tyers are great. I love to talk to them. There are several that I have known for years. I am hopeful that the new venue will change the show.

I bought a skunk skin on eBay. The skin is just about bald only the tail and hind end have any fur (the seller picture showed that). The leather is tanned. It is the finest white smooth leather. It will make better nymphs and grubs then the hair.

The photo adds to the bee. Great job