Iowaflyguy

Try canadianllama.com $4.50/100 beads and very good quality.

Another place on line for 'gill patterns is the warm water fly tyer.

His black lace Mcginty is killer. For top water you can find a yellow

foam spider on line that is cheap, easy to tie, and very effective.

I love to catch them on top but it is my experience that the ones

on the surface are usually the smaller ones.

Just my $.02 worth.

In the mail. I could not decide between chart or black so I sent a doz of each.

I usually start with chart for pan fish and switch to black on days they don't

seem to want the chart. I have also caught trout on the black.

-Tom

:wallbash: Sorry for the double post.

I'm in with a pus bug.

This swap is open to the first 12 who say "Im in" plus myself. You will be tieing 12 flys of any pattern designed to catch Pan fish, Sunies, Blue gills, etc. Those fish I go after when trout have beaten up on my ego and I need to do some catching. In other words.

 

 

What fly would you give your young grandson to get him exited about using a fly rod.

 

 

1,Flon 18 Small Deer Hair Bass Bugg

2,BeginnerflyTyer Black Ant

3,Jolly Red Tinsel caddis

4,Redneck fly Soft hackel maggot

5,David McVey TBA

6,Devinkaradeema Balsa popper

7,eastern fly Gartside Bug

8,breambuster TBA

9,Odaon TBA

10,

11,

12,

 

Normal rules applies and the due date is March 15.

Thanks

 

 

 

 

Hmm how do you edit the topic typo "swaqp"

Your deer hair work is beautiful.

I received some great flys in today's mail. Thanks to everyone and to Paul for hosting!

I will try some of them this weekend for sure.

Tight lines and heavy creels

-Tom

Great idea! It could not be more OK!! :yahoo:

WHAT A MESS

Paul I owe you and everyone else an apology for being so tardy.

This morning I decided to head cement the flys to make them more

durable. (I rarely use it on my own)

I had 9 of them done when I knocked over the bottle of head cement and ruined

all the rest. I am retying them now. I will mail them tomorrow and add the

postage for next day delivery. I hope you can wait the extra day. They are

bubble wing emer4gers. They really catch fish and float like a cork.

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-Tom :down:

As usual beautiful work! :headbang:

I usually get mine from feather-craft.

-Tom

I usually use JStockard or Feather-Craft. Today though I called in

an order to Chris Helm at Whitetail Fly Tieing. He frequently has that

really hard to find item and you can get plenty of advice from an

expert tyer. -Tom

I will try. I need to get some practice on muddler minnows...next person??? CDC.

It has been way to long since I have been in a swap!

So I'm in. Next person swiss straw.

Clay

It is one of my go to flys for gills. I always carry some

in my panfish box. It has also caught me several nice

accidental crappies. I have had no problem with durablity.

Old hat I was thinking over the winter of trying it out for

trout. I have never used it in cold water. After reading

your post I can't wait.

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-Tom

Eastern Iowa :thumbsup:

Just got mine. Thanks for a great selection of flies every one.

Thanks again to Fred for hosting. I can hardly wait for spring ice out!

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-Tom

Sorry for being slow. They were mailed today.

-Tom

I'm in with Clarence's minnow (modified)

-Tom

Fred

Flys went out today. I sent two for every one.

The ones with the small bead chain eyes is the

one I usually tye on first. The ones with the larger

eyes really get down deep fast.

I'm sorry to be so late but a health thing made it

very difficult to tye.

Drath that is a great fish, I can hardly wait to tye on

one of those crickets.

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-Tom

If there is still room I am in with a chart pus bug. It ain't fancy

but it really kills our Iowa gills.

-Tom

Whoaa Shane slow down.

You are confused. Duck hunting is very helpfull for the flytyer.

Last year an injury made me miss most of the season. But, before

my shoulder surgery I managed to get three drake woodies and one

green head.

For my tying it was a years supply of duck feathers. Remember feathers are

very expensive, especially wood duck feathers. I find the mid October feathers

to be a better quality for tying than the early season birds. So I reccomend

first shoot it, second eat it, and third tye with it.

Sept 1, I will go across the creek to Illinois shoot some doves and add to

my soft hackle supply.

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-Tom

Fred I think it's OK to compliment a fly. (and thank you for your recent

kind words). I will be taking some of the flies from the last swap I was in

fishing tomorrow or Thursday.

If I have good luck I intend to add it to the thread. I have sent in

many flys to many swaps and have never heard if any one ever caught a

fish with one. I think hearing that your fly was a success would be a great compliment.

It is also nice when some one says something nice about your tying skills.

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-Tom

Got the flys today. I hope to be in a swap with all of you again soon. :yahoo: :yahoo:

These are a group of great ties. Thanks again for hosting BB.

I usually don't fish swap flies but save them as models so I know what they are supposed

to look like. I already tied a dozen sharks caddis this after noon. What a slick pattern! I can't

wait to try the others.

If any one wants to do a cajun tickler they were originally tied by kayakflyfisher and

are in the data base. Seadog I don't recognize the material you used for the back on your fly. :dunno:

Care to give a hint?

It was a great swap!

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-Tom

Sherri

Three friends and I got 2 wts over the winter. To me

the difference between the 2 wt & 3wt just feels bigger

than the difference between the 3wt & 4wt. Now we get together for

two wt Tuesdays.

I have caught crappies, gills, and our little 9" hatchery trout on it.

Any one of wich will bend the rod almost double.

At first the two wt felt strange, but it did not take very long to

get the feel of it. Now it feels just as natural to cast as any of

my other rods. One small hint. If you decide on the 2 wt you

have very little hook setting power so be sure to sharpen your hooks.

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-Tom

I made a post on this a while back. I had the

same sort of problem, especially with the

list of tyers. It had never worked for me.

Finally I tried using internet explorer and it

worked just fine. (I use firefox to). Nymph chucker

said he had different results so your mileage may

vary. At least it should be worth a try. Please let

us know your results.

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-Tom