so far the chronies that landed here are pretty awesome looking. this is gonna be a good one!
received ;
wbaj
tallyho
professori

received adamj and jord0 today.

Sent mine out today.

My "double-doubles" in the mail today.

Just wondering if mine are there yet? Sent them last Friday..:thinking-006:

received
Bobdep, kinwahkly, and stryker2

Who is left ?

just waiting on the following. still couple weeks left so no panic

mr. flyguy
kritofr
mattpreat

Will be dropping mine off tonight or tomorrow night

I'll have everyone's flies in the mail tmrw. Kritofr is going to drop his off tonight so I'll post a pic of the sets after I get his. It is an awesome looking set I'll tell you that!

Excited!


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:47b20s0: Can hardly wait!!:sHa_shakeshout:

Dropped off the Zoolanders today.

If you have seen the movie, you could probably guess why the fly got that name. Not a traditional pattern but it has been a go to for times when nothing else seemed to work.

Interesting,a prelim. look would be nice.If it's that different...HAHA Just bustin your [careful now]b----.

Patience young grasshopper patience

I will get them out tmrw morning.

Crawad: Thanks again for organizing the swap.

Would have been nice if everyone had put a tag on their input, now we're left guessing on more than half.

Also would be great if the dirty dozen provided some feedback later on, e.g., in May/June, on how the flies worked.

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Would have been nice if everyone had put a tag on their input, now we're left guessing on more than half.

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Sorry, I miscounted, 7 labelled out of 12 ain't bad

These two were from me, and as I mentioned in my original post I was sorry I did not include the toe tags.

Very good, now I've got 9 out of 12. I just like to keep an account of fly tying and fishing events in a diary, so not too many years from now, well hopefully many, when too old and decrepit I'll be able to remember and write the great fishing book.

Nice Bunch!!
 

These are indeed some nice looking flies!!
I was thinking about the proposed pike fly swap, and if there's more than 5 people interested in joining perhaps we could have groups of 5 or whatever amount is reasonable for postage and given that making large flies is more time consuming and expensive?... Just a suggestion.. But I make some killer Poppers for spring fishing and would be willing to partake in a pike swap.:)

Thanks for posting the set once again they look awesome and have inspired a few ideas of my own, great work everyone.

The Zoolanders will be obvious. Think "blue steel"

Mailed out earlier and they are on the way

Many thanks to Crawad for organizing this fun swap. :)

Hey fellow fly tyres , great work they all look awesome, my pattern is an experiment, the fly is tied inverted and is intended to be fished on a floating line using a washing line of thee flies and in the middle , I added some "gink " to the gills and upper part of the fly and tied in using a Davy knot so that the fly mimics a fluttering pupae , an idea I was put on to at the fly tying course I just attended in January.
Going luck, let me know if it works .
Bob


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https://vimeo.com/202310770
Here's a video of mine in action.


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Received my today .WOW there are some excellent tiers here.Very good.Crawdad thanks again

sorry never put a tag on my chironomid, mine was the red butt anti static bag
Alan Jackson size 13 nymph hook
midge gill for the gills
black tungsten bead.
black 6 thread body as well thin strip antistatic bag
wire rib body wrap
ultra 70 thread for red butt wrapped on bottom of hook
peacock hurl thorax
coated with hard as nails coating
Ive had great luck with this all times of year on a sink and floating line with or with out indicator