That's another one for Jeff Foxworthey. Ya just may be a redneck if you use a pig fly for all your fly fishing !!! Forget the pork rine trailer, & I'll take my bourbon straight !!!!!
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That's another one for Jeff Foxworthey. Ya just may be a redneck if you use a pig fly for all your fly fishing !!! Forget the pork rine trailer, & I'll take my bourbon straight !!!!!
Jim - just shows the twisted ways my mind wanders and turns when tying flies ... or even talking of it. I tend to ... deviate (no I don't follow recipee when I cook either) ......... should see what happened one day when I was tying #18 parachute GRHE's ..... http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/wink.gif
sounds like interesting mat'l .... should see if I can locate some up here to try ... always up for tying something different.
(and drain that danged bourbon cast already will ya - we gots some fine malt here for some scotch ready to go ....)
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A pretty good thing to have in your box considering the eastern belief that pigs and likenesses of them bring the owner good luck. I have tied some good luck pig flies before only I just took little plastic pigs and zapagapped them to salmon hooks.
When tying at shows I ask the Kids if they have ever seen a pig fly--Of course they answer"Pigs cant fly" Then I show them Jims fly. The adult send others to my table just to see the pig--
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Bill
Oh no! Now I know how to do the tail! I was wondering how that was done. Yep, at this rate I'll be the proud owner of a dremmel tool before the weekend gets here. http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/smile.gif
Rusty, I was thinking about the fact that I could probably buy all the stuff to make it, but where's the fun in that? I guess I'm a sucker for a challenging fly pattern. http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/smile.gif
Bill, I'm not sure that I want to admit to this, but while I thought the pig was hillarious... I completely missed the "pig fly" joke.
Jim, 2,000 of these??? I guess I'm not the only person that liked this fly.
Betty, a pig swap already? But I haven't even found a source of pink foam yet...
Thanks everyone, the humor in the responses sure helped brighten Tuesday afternoon! Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go dremmel shopping. http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/smile.gif
Rex
Hey Rex,
I was surprised when you didn't pick up
on Bill's humor. But then I noticed your
reference to Tuesday, and perhaps there in
lies the problem. Your internal clock is
24 hours slow. Tomorrow afternoon when for
no apparant reason you start chuckling, just
know that it is in response to Bill's funny.
Warm regards, Jim
Cool! The weekend is one day closer than I thought!!!!
Of course, now I'm real worried about what I may have typed into the report that I have been working on this evening.
Oh, I understood Bill's joke, but I was suprised that I didn't think of it when I first saw the fly, especially with the subtle hint on FOAL's front page this week. http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/smile.gif
Rex
Hey Jim, I just turned my first popper today. It was fun!
I still don't have a dremmel, but I do have die grinder and an air compressor. It was not a very graceful setup, but it worked. I am still a long way from making a pig, but I was surprised at how quick and easy it was to turn a foam popper.
Thanks for the article on how to do this!
Rex
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Hey Rex,
Yes, turning foam is not hard work.*G*
Once you can spin the foam in a controlled
manner, it's childs play to hold an emery
board against the foam and shape it much
like on a lathe. Even the excess foam
being removed is easy to control with a
simple catch tray. I've used jewelers files
with mine to turn tiny little #20 bodies.
Could probably go smaller if I didn't have
to look twice to see the little bodies once.
*G* I guess my favorites though are the
classic bass lures in gill and trout sizes.
Particularly flies like Fred Abergasts hula
popper. The foam version is all but
weightless and does not make that scarey
whistling sound as it goes past your ear like the wooden or plastic originals do.
Warm regards, Jim
Jim!!
Thanx, ... I gotta try this!! You know, ... they'll most probably work very well on our big bruisers at dusk.
I can't wait to "spin up" some. http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/smile.gif
Hmmm. ... Pig swap, ... I wonder if Dept of Agriculture will impound my "flies" if I sign up for a swap with y'all http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/wink.gif
Edit:
p.s. ... Think if we use this as a banner at the FishIn's the admin will understand:
http://flyanglersonline.com/dremelpigfp.jpg
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/wink.gif
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Christopher Chin, Jonquiere Quebec
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