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Shot Swap is Mailed
Deer season just ended up here. We're near the end of the year, so here's the deal: I got a squirrel with my truck, so I'm willing to make an offering for karma by tying up a swap with my squirrel hair. That's the deal. Type of fly doesn't matter. Nor does the basic material. Duck. Buck. Squirrel. Rabbit. Patridge. Elk, Antelope. Seal. Whatever. Name your fly and what Mother Nature provided us for the swap. January 1 is the deadline for signup. February 1 is the deadline for getting the flies to John G . White, Box 672, Clara City, MN 56222.
We'll take the first dozen. Typical stuff applies. SASE packages. Toe tags. Crush proof box. The works.
1. White 43 - Squirrel hair SHWAPF - TIED
2. HMD - TBA - RECEIVED
3. RDL - TBA -- RECEIVED
4. s1rGr1nG0 - Bucktail Clouser -- RECEIVED
5 . Sagittarius62 - Die Fledermaus -- RECEIVED
6. ibrb - Casual Dressed Nymph - RECEIVED
7. Gigmaster - Nimrod Bucktail - RECEIVED
8. bdesavage - White Miller Caddis -- RECEIVED
9. ModocDan - TBA (turkey) -- RECEIVED
10. Wild One - Deerfield Special - RECEIVED
11. fly_flinger - whistlepig hair Special
12. Bassman - Squrrelly - RECEIVED
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Re: Shot Swap
Interesting swap, I'll get in on this one with a bambi hide I picked up last year that I haven't tied anything with yet.
The story on this little fawn is that I came across it momments after it was clipped by a truck on a busy logging road. It was a cool spring morning and it was still warm so I skinned it on the spot and thru the hide in the back of the pickup. I left the carcass for the predators that would eventually clean it up. It is interesting as it still had it's spotts it was so young of a deer, which is the main reason I figured I'd skin and preserve the hide. Its a very fine hair so I'll have to think of what to tie with it now sign me up.
-HMD
Edit: A conservation officer actuall stopped to see what I was doing and was ok with me taking a bit of hide so as the carcass was left for the predators and scavengers to clean up.
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HMD....be careful what you put in writing...fortunately you are among friends :roll:
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I'm in. I've got squirrel, and muskrat from a friend of mine that I have proccessed, so it makes sense for me to offer Die Fledermaus.
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Put me down please have a little bit of everything :lol:
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I'll give it a try. This will be my first swap.
I'll do some bucktail Clousers.
EDIT: Do I need to make all the flies the same color? I have a few different colors of bucktail and could do 3 or 4 each of a different color just to add a little variety.
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Re: Shot Swap
A welcome to you all! JGW
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I would like to join your swap with a Polly Rosborough pattern the Casual Dress Nymph.
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We're half way there! Respect those sacrifices of nature. Let them live on!
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Is this strictly a roadkill swap, or could I use Angora Goat? Or Elk, or Alpaca, or Deer Body Hair?
I'd like to get in with a generic nympth.
Thanks,