It was a pleasure and an honor for me to be in the beginners only swaps. I learned an awful lot. I thank all of you for your help. A special thanks to Steve for hosting the swaps and for teaching me so much. I urge anyone just starting to get into tieing flies or wanting to get into it, to participate in Steve's Beginners only swaps. You will find it fun and a very powerful learning experience. Steve will give you a very good critique on your flies that will help you over and over in your future tieing projects. Thanks to Steve I am a much better tier and have been able to host a couple of swaps myself. I know I have much more to learn. I learn a lot on FAOL from all of you. One of the most important things I learned from Steve, was to give to and help others and not to just take and think of only myself. John

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I wish you everlasting flies and tight lines.

[This message has been edited by bassman (edited 18 April 2005).]