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deerhairdan, Care to share a SBS on your fly???

List updated... Fisherboy pm the addy to you...

Good deal...I'll keep my eyes open for it!

Bentwing, I have gotten your flies!

Its only money! I've never seen a U Haul behind a funeral procession. I say if you can afford it then go for it!!!

Need addy as well please....

You Tube in my opinion is like cable television if you don't like the channel then switch it.

Okay rich mc you're in! Thanks for filling that spot. List updated!!!

List updated....

Now that is a very COOL looking fly indeed!!!!

One has dropped out so that leaves one spot open for some lucky tier! Someone jump on in and give this swap a try!!!

No problem...have a great week-end!!!

Thanks for sharing! Some of y'all have been in swaps with me. If you would like to share with everyone what you are tying you most certainly can but it not a requirement. Me personally I kind of like not knowing what all is being tied. It's like a surprise but that's just me. I am not a stickler for knowing. Most of you know I tie for the pure fun of it. Hope everyone stays COOL the next few weeks. The dog days of summer are upon us!

Keep my extras! Thanks for hosting!!!

The swap is now closed! Thank you to all who have signed up and hopefully we will have a great swap. Please PM me when you are ready for the mailing address.

Thanks for letting my know...I did not see that up above on the thread...Sorry about that! BassBugn you are in!

ONE LAST SLOT LEFT!!!! Someone hop on in and give it a try...

Dorado, You're in!!! Yes you did participate in last year's swap. I hope this year will be just as good as last year was...

** 2 MORE SLOTS OPEN ** Oh okay no problem then!!! I have been in swaps with you. I hope I did not offend you or him!!!! That was not intention at all just wanted to make sure he know what all the swap entailed. Mandog you are in buddy. Y'all have a SAFE and HAPPY 4th!!!

Mandog tell us little bit more about yourself if you do not mind. I have hosted some swaps and a brand new newbie asks to join and then I never heard anything from them again. Please do not take what I am saying as being rude or anything. I would love for you join and you are more than welcome to join I just want to make sure that you understand how it works and you are indeed really going to follow through. Like I said do not take what I am saying to be nasty. You are more than welcome to participate so let us know what you decide. Have a SAFE and Happy 4th of July!

3 MORE SLOTS LEFT!!! Fisherboy0301 you're in!

4 SPOTS OPEN STILL...Jump on in and give it a try caloosa bug you're in...Thanks for participating!!!

edie, As always your tying simply amazes me! Great looking fly!!!!

Well I have been tying for over 2 years now. Many of you here know that I mostly tie for the fun of it and I really do not sweat the small stuff. I am pretty laid back so to speak and I am by no means a professional at this hobby. I have watched tons of videos on line and have surfed and surfed the internet on all kinds of stuff pertaining to tying. Makes me really grateful for having the internet while learning this hobby. I cannot even imagine folks doing this from books or magazines. Those tiers from that era in my opinion are true artisans because they learned it by trial and error. To be perfectly honest I was looking for a hobby to do because I got tired of watching crap on television! The old lady loves watching murder and ghost shows and I knew it was time for me to find some sort of a hobby or I was going to go crazy!!! I first looked in taking up leather working and I even started to buy some of the tools for that craft but for some reason it just didn't seem interesting to me after I started looking into doing it. I have fished all of my life since I was a small boy. I can remember my Dad taking me and my little brother fishing in a flat bottom jon boat on Lake Quitman and Winnsboro in east Texas with cane poles. I can recall when he got each of us a Zebco 33 reel and we thought we were in high cotton. Boy that seems like yesterday, time sure does fly by. Since I was leaning towards leather working the more I was looking into it I thought that it was going to be an expensive hobby to take up so I turned my focus on to fly tying. My thinking was its got to be cheaper than doing leather working boy was I totally wrong...LOL...I have way to much crap that one middle age man could possibly ever use in tying flies. I have to admit I am a fly tying material holic!!! I buy stuff at craft stores on clearance, hit the after Christmas decoration sales, dollar stores, anything that I think could be used to tie something I usually will buy it. I get stuff off of Ebay have it delivered to my work so the wife doesn't see all the stuff I have accumulated. Oh well I guess it could be worse... I have to admit I enjoy this forum a great deal. You can learn a lot of things here and my experience has always been great. I have even met some folks on here at some of the fly tying shows that I have attended. If any of you ever get the opportunity to go to a show I highly recommend it. Fly tiers are the nicest people!!! They will show you how to tie anything they are tying. All you have to do it pull up a chair and sit in front of them watch and ask questions. I have never meet a rude fly tier at any show that I have ever been too. My bucket list trip would to be able to go to the national show that lasts for a whole week!

OVER HALF WAY FULL.... Crackleback, carpflyguy, Bentwing, and vicente you all are in... FlatRoamer you will need to tie at least 11 flies...It is customary to tie a few extra for the SM but it not an actual requirement. Bentwing...I see you are a newbie...Do you understand how this works?