I love the pig!

[RexW]

Jim, I think the pig fly is great, but why'd you have to put it in the article? Making my own poppers sounds interesting, but since I don't own a dremel, I've never been tempted to actually try making any of them. But the pig looks too funny not to try making one of them. Let's see a dremel tool with accessaries $75(?), a drill press another $75, other assorted supplies $20. Gee, this could be an expensive pig....

You did a great job on the article.

Rex

[Jim Hatch]

Hey Rex,

Don't feel bad buddy. I don't have a
pig either.*G* I've tied around 2,000 pigs
in the last few years. Some for guides who
buy 1 or 2 hundred at a pop, some for shows
and fish ins and many for swaps. When I get
back into pig mode this fall, I'll post an
individual pig swap. I swap pig flies for
a favorite fly from your fishery. No matter
how many I tie, they are soon gone.*G*
Warm regards, Jim

[PCRusty]

Rex,
When I was a kid my grandmother used to go out on the beach near Ft. Myers, Fla. where she lived and gather shells. Not always whole shells sometimes it would be pieces sometimes a crab claw or a starfish.
She would then take the stuff home and clean it and glue it together making all kinds of figures out of the stuff. She would also buy doll eyes and all sorts of things at the five and dime store to go with it.
After looking at Jim's pig I bet a well supplied tackle shop with a large bobber selection would have the basis for getting started on a pig without a lot of hand work on your part. Granted it wouldn't look like Jim's pig but the idea would be the same.
Think craft store,
Rusty <><

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if you wanna catch something ya gotta get a hook in the water

[Betty Hiner]

I'm in for the pig swap!!

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Trouts don't live in ugly places

[AScott Trout Flies]

Just thought i'd share this pic.... some of my herd, "daydreaming about flying!!"

Andy

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"My fishing is no longer an obsession, an addiction, or a mania; it's much more than that!
" - Dave Micus

[Jim Hatch]

JC,

That's a thought for sure. A foam
oinkicator. When he sticks his curly
tail in the air, you know to do a hook
set. I think I'd leave the full hook up
his butt however as I've had many reports
of pork loving fish of many species. Warm
regards, Jim

[darrell]

Ascott - nice - Danish Landrace's ??? lots of chops off her off-spring.

Rex - I've done some by hand on sand paper - takes a bit more time ... but results are the same (ok - near the same .... )

[AScott Trout Flies]

Darrell,
Large White crossed with Landrace/Duroc, these are a few of my breeding sows due to give birth any day now. Pork chops will come from the progeny in around 200 days.

Jim, I gotta try tying some of these... most of my regular clients ask after the pigs when they order flies, or stop into the office for a chat, so it will be entertaining to see the look on their face when they see a litter of dremel pigs on the tying bench!!

Andy

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"My fishing is no longer an obsession, an addiction, or a mania; it's much more than that!
" - Dave Micus

[darrell]

thanks for the memories .. dad ran a farrow to finish for quite a while .... hmms, have you tried using some of the shoulder / neck hairs for clousers ? Nice, stiff - should give some good action ..... throw a couple on a dremmel pig for a tail - voila !

[Jim Hatch]

Ahhh Darrell,

Tis but one way to tail a pig fly and
it's not with the hair of the swine. As it
turns out, one of our sponsors, Hedron,
makes the perfect material for the curly
little appendages. It's called "Perfect
Rubber" and comes in colors to match
virtually every foam color known to man.
This material can be threaded into a
needle and applied in just the right spot
along with a wee drop of CA adhesive. Then
with the application of heat, it can be
stretched to the proper taper and twisted
to a curl that would catch any pig fanciers
eye. Anything worth doing is worth doing
right!*G* Warm regards, Jim

PS, this miraculous material is also well
suited for legs and skirts on your more
traditional dremel bugs.

[This message has been edited by Jim Hatch (edited 24 August 2005).]