Classic Streamer Swap

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Well now that the Classic Winged Wet Fly swap is over it’s time for a new one. So here goes. This swap will be for classic streamer patterns only. No Woolley Buggers please. Classic patterns can be any pattern from the Carrie Stevens era or Bergman, Edson and so on. Just no modern streamers. A few more classic streamer examples could be the Black ghost, Ken Lockwood, Black Nose Dace, Thunder creek series, Sushan postman, Queen of the waters, Mickey Fin and so on. Other patterns and ideas can be obtained from the book Forgotten flies. Swap sign-up dead line will be December 31, 2004. Flies to be mailed and received to my house no later than February 12, 2005. Swap will be open to the first 15 tyers. If the swap fills up completely that means you will have to tye a minimum of 14 flies. I will post my mailing address after the swap fills or the sign-up dead line has come and gone. I will need an alternate in the case of a person drops out due to a life happens event. When joining the swap, please let me know what you will be tying A.S.A.P

                  Thanks a Bunch

                      Andy B

P.S. The very next post will be the updated list of tyers and patterns they will be tying. I will update this post throughout the swap.

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Ok, in the swap so far are the following tyers:

  1. Andy B Tying The Thunder Creek Brown Trout

  2. Flytire Tying The Montreal W

  3. cctyer Tying The Royal Coachman Bucktail

  4. Mikeytwoshoes Tying The Muddler Minow

  5. white43 Tying The Mickey Fin

  6. tyflier Tying The Harris Special

  7. wet fly guy Tying The Carrie Stevens Witch (Still to Determine which witch)

  8. BadBug Tying The Sam Slaymaker’s Little Rainbow Trout

  9. Mike Popick Tying The Cone Head Marabou Muddler

  10. Dry Fly Guy Tying Slaymaker’s Little Brook Trout

  11. SDH Tying The Black Ghost

  12. bluwatr Tying The MacGregor

  13. Ontariosteelheader Tying The Matuka

  14. Monty Tying The Gray Squirrel Silver Streamer

  15. Feenom Tying TBD

Swap is Full.

                     Thank You

                     Andy B

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Andy,

Put me on the list.

Would a MONTREAL W*&^E be OK?

Thanx,

Norm

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Flytire:

Your in and yes that pattern is fine with me.

                     Andy B
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Ok, in the swap so far are the following tyers:

  1. Andy B Tying The Thunder Creek Brown Trout

  2. Flytire Tying The Montreal W

Only 13 slots open.

Thank You

Andy B

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I would love to get in this swap Andy. I’m not sure of the fly yet but will let you know ASAP.

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Welcome aboard CC, let me know when you can.

                        Andy B
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okey dokey.
pattern tbd after referencing forgotten flies.

mgj

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welcome aboard Mikeytwoshoes. Thanks alot for joining.

                    Andy B
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I’ll be up front with a Mickey Finn. Sorry I screwed the other one up. JGW

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I’m thinking I’d like to tie something from the thunder creek series, though then the natural inclination would be for swappers to compare mine to yours and oh no we can’t have that ;-]…is a muddler minnow acceptable? I’ve been tying quite a few of those lately…

I’m still non-committed.

mgj

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White43 welcome aboard and forget about that last one.

Mikeytwoshoes, your in with Muddler Minnow. If you want to tye Thunder Creek instead let me know. I will go for a Ken Lockwood if you choose to do so. I am flexible.

                        Andy B
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im in. put me down for a Harris Special, if you still got room…

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Andy,

Put me down for a witch ,I don’t know what one yet.

Wet

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tyflier & wet fly guy:

Welcome aboard and your both in. Thanks for joining and helping this swap to become successful.

                     Andy B
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Wet fly guy:

I have tied quite a few of the Gray Witch and the Golden Witch. Both of these patterns were fun to tie. Also need to mention these have taken some nice Brown Trout. I found that by making all the wings in an assembly line fashion first made my tying in the end alot of fun and speeded up the process. Just my two cents worth. Finally I forgot to mention nice pattern selection.

                     Andy B

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andy,

I’ll tie muddlers then.
I do believe I’ve got enough hair on hand.

I suppose I should go w/ gapen’s pattern and not mine. that’s ok.

mgj

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Can an old guy join this & tie a Sam Slaymaker Little Rainbow Trout?

Dennis ~BadBug~

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sign me up for this one - does a cone head marabou muddler count or should I pick another pattern?

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Andy, I decided to tie the shushan postmaster sans the jungle cock, I have some red squirrel tail I want to use.