Color Swap

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This Swap Has Been Completed. look for photos of all the flies in the thread; they are spread out quite a bit. thanks, everyone, it was lots of fun. looking forward to next year!

now that baseball is over and November’s grim face is outside the door, i have in mind a Color Swap to cheer things up, since we can post in color on this board. Flies would be tied in materials of ALL one color. Blue, [COLOR=Lime][COLOR=Magenta][COLOR=Purple]purple,[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] green, orange, lilac,[COLOR=Lime] chartreuse, [COLOR=Magenta]pink, [COLOR=Yellow]yellow,[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]–whatever you think you can pull off. if you absolutely need another color, you may use white. No black allowed (unless it’s part of a dyed feather)!

any size, any type–salt, warm or cold-water flies.

since the holidays are coming, and we might be busy, let’s say sign up by Dec 7 and Flies in Jan 31.

Tyers:

  1. CaseyP-----PINK–Carrie Stephens streamer size 4
  2. Bass_Bug–Yellow–Yellow Ba$tard Streamer size 6–received
    [COLOR=Black]3. ibrb--------[COLOR=Red]RED–Cardinal, size 8–received[COLOR=Black]
  3. Ron Eagle Elk–[COLOR=DarkRed]FIREY BROWN–received[COLOR=Black]
  4. freddyg--------[COLOR=Blue]BLUE–#16 midge pupa–received[COLOR=Black]
  5. Andres Touceda–[COLOR=Magenta]PINK–size 13 unidentified beetle–received[COLOR=Black]
  6. Normand---------[COLOR=Silver]GRAY–Mr Gray Spider–received[COLOR=Black]
  7. waltryan---------[COLOR=Sienna]REGULAR BROWN–Hornberg–received[COLOR=Black]
  8. bspitt------------[COLOR=DarkOrange]ORANGE–crawdad[COLOR=Black]
    10.Night Angler----[COLOR=Purple]PURPLE
    11.quivira kid------PURPLE–sweet #10 wet–received
    12.hap-------------CHARTREUSE–shrimp–received
    [/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]
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Casey, I’ll play! Sign me up for Yellow.

What about ribbing/wire/tinsel etc? Gold/silver/copper?

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count me in RED

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I’m in, Fiery Brown.

REE

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I would like to join-- Blue freddyg

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Pink for me.

Andres T

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casey

i’ll take gray

norm

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Casey,
I’m in for regular brown
Coughlin

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for Orange!

Thanks for letting me play.

Brannon

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WOW![COLOR=Black] this one took off in a hurry. :smiley:

look for a PM with details, folks.

3 spaces left. first post, first served. duplicate colors are okay.

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What about ribbing/wire/tinsel etc? Gold/silver/copper?–Bass_Bug
all the materials should be as close in color as humanly possible. this may require some imaginative problem solving! coloring with pens is okay.

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a better turn out than the “fly tyer” forum!

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I tied up a prototype (pattern withheld for now) last night with all yellow materials. I tried some yellow/gold tinsel and it blends in nicely with other yellow materials. This should be a very interesting swap Casey. Great idea!!!

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Grizzly dyed orange - will that count as black? (the barring in the grizzly feather)

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grizzley dyed orange is orange in my book. when i get the camera up and running, and straighten out Photobucket, i’ll post the fly that started this whole thing. it has dyed grizzley.

the object was to avoid 12 versions of a black wooley bugger. :wink:

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well shoot…

I wanted to do a black wooly bugger…

hows about a purple PMS??

*** Note: I do put red flash in the tail… or I can do purple…***

Im in if’n you like it

Leonard

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I’m in with olive for now.

If I can find purple hackle and some dyed flank feathers, I’d do a sweet purple wet fly.
Lookin forward to this!

Zac

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The idea is an all-one-color fly no matter what the pattern calls for. Now obviously this will make many patterns not really what they are supposed to be, but fun nonetheless. For instance. picture a Royal Wulff tied with not just the red floss body but ALL red materials? Red Hackle, red peacock, red tail etc.

An Adams on the other hand would not technically be an Adams if it didn’t have the traditional colors, but what if the recipe was substituted for say all green materials instead of a gray body, brown and grizzly hackle etc .

I think this is the effect Casey is going for.

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This swap sounds like a good excuse to try dyeing with kool-aid. 1 pack of kool-aid and just the materials needed for the swap?

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yup, the pattern is not the emphasis here. it’s all about the C[COLOR=blue]O[COLOR=darkorange]L[COLOR=lime]O[COLOR=purple]R[COLOR=black][SIZE=3][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR]and the different materials that you can find. this is a challenge, believe me! it’s probably best to line up your materials and then think of a pattern, or make up your own. that’s how this all began on my bench, at least. if you run into difficulties, you can try to change your color, but adapting the pattern to what you have on hand might be a lot easier.

and then Bass_Bug’s idea might work as well:

This swap sounds like a good excuse to try dyeing with kool-aid

BTW, is anyone going to Somerset, NJ, for the International Fly Tying Symposium 11/21-22? there’s bound to be some brightly colored stuff in the exhibitor’s stands! i’d just love to go shopping for anyone too far away. :smiley:
[SIZE=4][SIZE=3][COLOR=lime][COLOR=darkorange][COLOR=blue][SIZE=6][COLOR=red][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE]

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here’s the fly that started this. after I tied up a set of flies for a Casting for Recovery tournament using only materials on hand (pink, natch!) Bass_Bug went me one better with this prize:

(excuse me while i try again to make this process work…aha! insert it as a link, not an image.)

this is an ALL PINK fly.