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Any Interest in a Fly Swap? #12906758 09/21/18 04:39 PM
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The past month has not been great for fishing, seems like every weekend we've getting inundated with rain (at least down here in Houston).

However, all that time I've lost fishing I've been spending at the vice and I've been getting a lot of tying done.

Is any one else interested in doing a fly swap? We did one during the holidays a couple of years ago and it was a lot of fun. If you sign up within the next week I can pair people up with another TFF board member and you can exchange 4-6 flies you tied for your favorite target species.

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Re: Any Interest in a Fly Swap? [Re: MassAction] #12906826 09/21/18 05:36 PM
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I will participate. Do we select what we want? Also specify what we can tie?

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Re: Any Interest in a Fly Swap? [Re: Linecaster] #12906931 09/21/18 07:00 PM
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Originally Posted By: Linecaster
I will participate. Do we select what we want? Also specify what we can tie?


Great! Glad to see there is some interest.

I'm open to making this as formal or informal as you all would like. My thought was you could say 1-2 species you're interested in and let the tier give their favorite pattern or patterns for that, that way the tier has control over the materials and experience with the pattern in question. I know some materials can be tough to find or more expensive in certain locations.

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Re: Any Interest in a Fly Swap? [Re: MassAction] #12906960 09/21/18 07:26 PM
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Im in. I tie mainly for bass and sunfish but have some experience with trout and redfish flies.

Re: Any Interest in a Fly Swap? [Re: MassAction] #12907465 09/22/18 02:18 AM
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Count me in. I just got a new vice and bunch of fly tying material that I need to go though and get a tying station set up. This would get me motivated to see what all I got and maybe try out a couple of new ties.

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Re: Any Interest in a Fly Swap? [Re: MassAction] #12907837 09/22/18 02:35 PM
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Nice guys, I figure we can keep this open until next Friday 9/28 and then we can figure out who is sending to who. If you have preferences for flies you'd like to receive or tie and can post that, I'll do my best to match things up.

I've updated the original post to include the participants and will keep that running until the cutoff date.

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If possible I would like original Llano Bug and Rio Getter. I can tie, Briminator and a minnow patern!!!


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Re: Any Interest in a Fly Swap? [Re: MassAction] #12908963 09/23/18 01:14 PM
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I mostly tie and fish for bass and sunfish

Re: Any Interest in a Fly Swap? [Re: MassAction] #12910836 09/24/18 09:27 PM
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The flies I tie the most and will probably tie for this are Llano Bugs and Llanolopes, and a zonker crawfish pattern I designed. Lately I have also been tying some of Matt Bennetts flies (Lunch Money, Rio Getter
and Carp It Bomb) and Chase Smiths Scarpion, but I would not say I have perfected them yet. But I have fished them and they catch fish. Ill gladly receive any flies in return. I am sure I can find some fish to bite anything I get in the mail.

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Originally Posted By: McKinneyLonghorn
The flies I tie the most and will probably tie for this are Llano Bugs and Llanolopes, and a zonker crawfish pattern I designed. Lately I have also been tying some of Matt Bennetts flies (Lunch Money, Rio Getter
and Carp It Bomb) and Chase Smiths Sc
arpion, but I would not say I have perfected them yet. But I have fished them and they catch fish. Ill gladly receive any flies in return. I am sure I can find some fish to bite anything I get in the mail.


You tie more complicated flies than I do but you tie what I am interested in.
Let's see how the rules play out.


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Re: Any Interest in a Fly Swap? [Re: Linecaster] #12911204 09/25/18 02:21 AM
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Originally Posted By: Linecaster
Originally Posted By: McKinneyLonghorn
The flies I tie the most and will probably tie for this are Llano Bugs and Llanolopes, and a zonker crawfish pattern I designed. Lately I have also been tying some of Matt Bennetts flies (Lunch Money, Rio Getter
and Carp It Bomb) and Chase Smiths Sc
arpion, but I would not say I have perfected them yet. But I have fished them and they catch fish. Ill gladly receive any flies in return. I am sure I can find some fish to bite anything I get in the mail.


You tie more complicated flies than I do but you tie what I am interested in.
Let's see how the rules play out.


Ive been tying more complicated stuff lately but I still catch most of my fish on near deers and soft hackles, two of the simplest flies out there. Pretty sure a lot of the complicated ties are designed to catch fisherman as much as fish. That being said, most of Matt Bennetts flies are not near as complicated as they seem when you break it down.

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Originally Posted By: McKinneyLonghorn
The flies I tie the most and will probably tie for this are Llano Bugs and Llanolopes, and a zonker crawfish pattern I designed. Lately I have also been tying some of Matt Bennetts flies (Lunch Money, Rio Getter and Carp It Bomb) and Chase Smiths Scarpion, but I would not say I have perfected them yet. But I have fished them and they catch fish. Ill gladly receive any flies in return. I am sure I can find some fish to bite anything I get in the mail.


McKinney, you and I are pretty much tying the exact same patterns. There are some great tutorials on YouTube for Matt's flies if you haven't seen them already through Duranglers and GRTU's website (which also has a couple of Chris Johnson's stellar patterns). They really helped me tighten up my tying.

My major motivation to get into fly tying was because I couldn't readily purchase many of the productive carp patterns I saw people using. That has been a complete rabbit hole, and my box is stuffed with hybrid worm flies, scarpions, hammer head craws, etc. I'm always open to a new carp pattern if anyone has something that works for them.

I'd also like to start tying more saltwater patterns to hopefully motivate me to head down to the coast more often. Trout season is also creeping up on us, so I'll be tying quite a bit of stonefly, worms, and midges in anticipation of hitting the Guadalupe soon.

As far as the rules for the swap, it looks like it's just the four of us and given the small size, I'm open to suggestions from you guys to make this as big or as small as you'd like. We could also do a circular swap instead of pairing up, so A would send flies to B who would send to C who would send to A, but I'd love to get your input on what you want to get out of it.

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With it only being four of us, I would be open to tying enough flies where I could send then same 6-8 (or more) flies to the other three participants. Would take a bit more time to tie and a slightly higher cost in materials, but postage should be only a few dollars more since flies are light. For that we would each receive three times as many flies. Or, we could pair up with another tyer or do it the circular way as proposed above. Im open to however the group wants to do it.

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I'm good with pairing up, doing a circular trade or sending a few of the same pattern to the other three.

Re: Any Interest in a Fly Swap? [Re: MassAction] #12913835 09/27/18 03:37 AM
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Whatever is the consensus for me.


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