troutguy

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

wow nice flies

Mine are in the mail today. Hope you all like them. Merry Christmas! Thanks for keeping us updated SM. This is a lot better run then the last swap I was in. I added some extras for you.

Geozip - what part of upstate NY? You all took me as an extra, so I'm OK with 14. We lived in NY until 1996. Half an hour from the Beaverkill, Willowemoc, Delaware, Monguap and Neversink. Now it's an hour to the closest stream. I miss the streams. I don't miss the snow and cold.

Thank you guys. I appreciate it.

Tdeyette Thanks for the offer you are a gentleman. Whatever you decide. I'm ok with it.

Saw it change and fill right as I posted. Keep me in mind as a fill in if one of the TBA's drop. Thanks

I'd like to tie a brown caddis size 14 emerging.

EBAY You can get a full skin for 15. Also look for Bob White or other quail for smaller hackle. I get starlings on eBay for $3. Besides spruce grouse, you can get sharp trailed grouse, a whole host of quail and my favorite ruffed grouse. Good luck.

Nice fly. It looks like Harry and Elsie Darbee's fly the Rat Faced McDougal. Great eastern trout fly.

Nice...how long are the legs? Can't tell from the picture.

I thought the body was beads. Very nice

I like the dentist

Nice fly