Dubs

Yep got you both and one spot still available

Cool, filling up quick guys

Ok guys list is up to date Welcome all

got you guys, thanks

Tie any nymph you like in trout sizes with 2 requirements. 1. Must have a collar of some sort of soft hackle 2. Must incorporate at least 1 item of weight (lead or lead free wire, bead, heavy copper rib, or other) I am going for nymphs with the addition of a soft hackle, not a floss body and hackle. A larva or pupa form is ok too, any questions just ask. I find these super effective in a lot of situations, so beef up your box. Please do not send flies in those little ziploc baggies, it is murder on hackles Standard rules apply. All are welcome, new swappers encouraged to join, international as well ***I don't normally ask for patterns but I think it would be helpful this time so please give at least a general idea*** Due date is March 10th Looking for 12 members to tie 12 bugs each, plus myself SWAP IS FULL SM - Partridge Red Fox Squirrel Nymph 1. zip - Clinch Witch RECEIVED 2. Li'lDave - BH Soft Hackle Hare's Ear RECEIVED 3. Woodenlegs - BH Soft Hackle Pheasant Tail RECEIVED 4. GP flyfisherman - Prince Variant Soft Hackle RECEIVED 5. Mainard - Quill Body BH Soft Hackle RECEIVED 6. vicente - 7. fishingbobnelson - Ginger Flymph RECEIVED 8. dflanagan - BWO 9. Trouta_Control - Frenchie RECEIVED 10. chugbug27 - BH Crystal Soft Hackle 11. vicrider - PT Variant Soft Hackle RECEIVED 12. flytire - Cruncher RECEIVED

I think it was vicrider that tied up a royal coachman streamer for a swap a while back

Wow next day delivery!

I think I have come up with a new years resolution...

Knock Knock...Anybody Home? Wasn't me and this is pure speculation but I would guess dyed gray squirrel tail

Kevin, I'll need an address please

Opened a fantastic assortment from BigRedFan and I thank him and vicrider for the efforts. There was a bounty of flies and material, and I've been needing a compartment box as it happened as well. Glad this is an annual swap

Should be a non issue, if you have French style (oval) tinsel it should be plenty tough, Mylar easily durable enough. I tried Xmas tinsel just because why not, found it to be ok at best if not pulled with much tension. What type of tinsel are you referring to? Wire in general is easier to use in smaller gauges, and becomes more tricky as it gets thicker and can be more difficult to secure when counter wrapped, if you aren't using wire intended for fly tying it might be a problem. Crystal flash can be a great rib in my opinion, but more as a flash or irridescence adder, not to define segmentation or add weight. I'll suggest if you counter wrap wire to add an extra turn before you capture and secure, and don't write off tinsel

Have not put up any pics since photobucket... BWO Nymph CDC Emerger

Leave it alone Leave it alone Leave it alone Leave it alone Leave it alone Not gonna bite...

I used altoids but the return envelope plus shipping envelope put me in the same boat, ah well Still a deal, that's a looong way

You get in one group, unless you want in more. More groups mean you tye more flies. If you'r in one group only you will do twelve flies total. Three nymphs, three emergers and three dry types for the life of that bug you pick. I fixed my list so it was right. Kevin Ok I'm pretty sure I understand this but it should be 4 of each cycle for a dozen flies. I think you should go back to the way you had it listed before, SM spot and 4 sign ups per group, but drop to 3 groups. Not my show but then we will all send in 4 sets and get 4 different ones back. I'm in however you do it, just thinking out loud

I'll take a spot, something in the BWO variety

Mine arrived also. Safe and sound under the tree!

Guys that fish for crappies and catfish usually do so because they taste so darn good! I don't believe I have ever caught true native trout, or char, although I am certain I have caught stream bred steelhead in far upstream reaches of small Lake Erie tributary branches. I have also fished where there are stream bred, possibly native brook trout. In northwest PA most streams get too warm to sustain trout or char year round, although a small population does in some places. Stream bred are not native. Not far from me some waters do support year round populations, those waters are being studied and accounted for in an ever improving management program by the state. Streams that sustain significant natural populations should not be stocked. Stocked fish in those areas diminish natural reproduction. Stocking is a way of making a stream carry enough fish to support the fishing pressure. Many streams around either reach too warm of temperatures in the summer, do not have proper spawning substrate, or both. So stock them, catch them, eat them if you want. The great lakes steelhead fishery I enjoy so much is entirely simulated and although some fish do reproduce, and some fish return to the lake to run again next year, most are stocked in the streams as smolts to be raised in the big water, only to return in a few years, eat an egg sac and be threaded onto a yellow rope. Other fates are possible, but its basically put and take. I reguard real native trout like real western steelhead, better fish from a better fishery. I enjoy stocked fish, from walleye to browns to steelhead, but I don't put them on no pedistal over natives or stream bred

I'll need an address also please

Ok I'll get in here, beetle and drowned ant

Same genetic chickens, higher graded capes have more feathers and maybe longer feathers, and/or more uniform colors. I have not felt the need to go all out on the highest grade capes. Barbule density and stem softness "should" be comparable if not equal. The lower grades tie very nicely, and I do not feel inhibited by using them at all. Gene is right, many tiers have told me today's worst options in hackle are better than the cream of the crop in yesteryear. I'm 30 so I can't confirm haha

For a dry I don't think hen hackle would be better, rooster neck (cape) or saddle would be reccomended. Flytires pics are nice feathers for your fly.

Mine came yesterday also, thanks to all. Great flies I look forward to using them

They have tools available good as I need. I started tying on their standard kit, upgraded the scissors and hackle pliers and served me many flies.