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ALL FLIES ARE IN, ALL FLIES ARE OUT

I mailed all of the flies out on Thursday May 25

Swap Members
1. Ed Engelman engelm14@cortland.edu Mardi-paca
Finished
2. Ed Engelman engelm14@cortland.edu Eyelash snake
Finished
3. Richard Zieger ziegeria@grm.net
Received
4. Jeff Row jlrow@cox.net
Received
5. Mike Bernardoni mikeb@pso.siu.edu
Hard Hackle Worm
Received
6. Matt Schroeder cutthroat.trout@yahoo.com
Received
7. Dan Harriman kc5gxl@sbcglobal.net
received
8. Buster Wolfe busterwolfe54@yahoo.com
received
9. Mark Delaney
Received
10. James Baxter
Received
11. J. G. White
Recieved

Thank you all

Ed
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Mardi-Gras Bead Fly
First posted on FAOL on Fat Tuesday 2006

Well, yesterday was the last day of parades and revelry. It was your last chance to get beads tossed from floats, HOWEVER today is another opportunity for you to sign up for this swap!!!

This swap may be the answer to your problem, what do I do with the beads now!

I will be tying two patterns for the swap. One is my mardi-paca. I started tying this last spring. It has become a go-to fly for me especially when fishing new stillwaters. The snake pattern that I am also tying uses Bernat Disco yarn which I have been having great fishing success with. Both of these patterns of course use Mardi-Gras beads

For a thought provoking article on this year?s Mardi Gras celebration throughout the area devastated by hurricane Katrina I recommend that you read the following article from the Shreveport Times.
[url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060227/LIVING/602250308/1004:e7e2d]http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060227/LIVING/602250308/10 04[/url:e7e2d]

Perhaps some of you in this swap who live in the swath of Katrina would like to post your experiences/reflections. A cousin of mine recently returned from the area as part of a volunteer crew to assist with repair of some storm damaged homes. Much more needs to be done and we can all help.

All fly patterns for this swap must use one or more Mardi-Gras beads. I think we will all enjoy this one

For those of you who do not know me:
here is a web page from a swap that I hosted a couple of years ago, [url=http://edengelman.com/Chuck/swap.html:e7e2d]http://edengelman.com/Chuck/swap.html[/url:e7e2d]

an article I wrote that is on this site, [url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/tyingtips/part318.html:e7e2d]http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/tyingtips/part318.html[/url:e7e2d]

and my home page: [url=http://edengelman.com:e7e2d]http://edengelman.com[/url:e7e2d]


Ed Engelman

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