Nice, lively looking flies! Wow, Great work. One of my favorites in all the years I've been doing swaps. Thanks to everyone. JGW
Nice, lively looking flies! Wow, Great work. One of my favorites in all the years I've been doing swaps. Thanks to everyone. JGW
Thank you
Nam thank you and thank you to all of the participants of the swap.
A great bunch of flies in honor of a great inovator and a great character.
Ed
" Fishermen, hunters, wood choppers, and others,
spending their lives in the fields and woods,
in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves,
are often in a more favorable mood for observing her,
in the intervals of their pursuits,
than philosophers or poets even,
who approach her with expectation."
Henry David Thoreau
i received the flies today, all i have to say is wow everyone did a splendid job. will show them off at our bug club meeting tomorrow
thanks again for hosting this
best fishes
gary
Filter Fly
The filter fly uses a smoked cigarette filter as dubbing for the abdomen and thorax.
Smoking is an unhealthy habbit practiced by many. The inovater, Jack Gartside, of the filter fly was a smoker who succumed to lung cancer. Members of my own family who were smokers have also passed prematurely in great part due to their cigarette habbits and their resulting heart disease and lung cancer. I do not smoke cigarettes nor allow smoking in my home or vehicles.
However, I do smoke an occasional cigar outdoors. (about a half dozen per year) For this swap, I hollowed out the end of a cigar and placed a cigarette filter inside. This gave the filter the authentic tobacco stain that Jack Gartside felt was important for this fly.
I like using low budget materials. However, IMHO, nobody should smoke so they can tie this fly. I decided to tie this fly noting that there was more than a bit of irony in its selection.
Ed
Last edited by Extremely Low Budget FF; 02-06-2010 at 07:11 PM. Reason: puntuation
" Fishermen, hunters, wood choppers, and others,
spending their lives in the fields and woods,
in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves,
are often in a more favorable mood for observing her,
in the intervals of their pursuits,
than philosophers or poets even,
who approach her with expectation."
Henry David Thoreau
Since CCWaters hasn't contacted me wondering were his flies are, I'll assume he got them.
You're a great bunch...thanks again.
nam
Ed: thanks for the explaination, and here I thought you had just picked them up off the street.
Thanks for a super additon to the swap. Everyone did a great job.
iaflyfisher
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