Dry and dropper swap

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Anyone interested in a dry and dropper swap? You would need to tie two flies for each swapper, one dry fly and one dropper fly.

I will set a maximum of 13 tyers including me, so we’d be tying up two dozen flies to be postmarked by January 31.

Swap entrants:
1-bbrothe1 - Robber fly and bead head zebra midge (complete 01-04-2005)
2-foxxtrot - CDC caddis and glass bead dropper (arrived 1-19)
3-wet fly guy - yellow stimmi and a glass bead soft hackle (arrived)
4-Lonnie - Goddard caddis and beadhead caddis dropper (arrived)
5-ontariosteelheader - Usual dry and a caddis larva dropper (mailed)
6-Dry Fly Guy - Japanese beetle and a soft hackle dropper (arrived)
7-stonefly71 - cream dry fly and a bead head something small (received 11-27)
8-Gardenfish - deer hair dry and a midge pupae (received 1-25)
9-pheasanttail65 - Stimulator and a Bead-Headed Prince (mailed)
10-mickmcco - crackleback and pheasant tail midge (arrived 2-4)
11-salovin - TBD (arrived 2/2)
12-Adam A. - elk hair caddis and a bead head
caddis pupae (arrived 2/2)
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Make sure to include return postage. Send flies to:

Bill Brothers
2885 County Line Road
Riegelsville, PA 18077

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I am in, when are they due. I will tie a CDC caddis and glass bead dropper.

I see the due date. Glass eye wasn’t focused?

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I am in, I will do a yellow stimmi and a
glass bead soft hackle

WET

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4

What the heck, I’m in. I’ll get back to you on patterns. Most likely a big EHC (Black?) and some sort of beadhead caddis dropper.

I love nightime caddis fishing…

L

5

I will join i think. ill do a Usual dry and a caddis larva dropper.

Ian

6

Please include me. Will do a Japanese beetle with a soft hackle dropper that I did real well with this year.

7

Hi, I dont have correct hooks for the caddis larvae and am unable to get any. Is it alright if i do a caddis larvae on a dry hook? It doesnt matter becaus ei can do some kind of emerger or nymph instead.
Ian

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For a dry, I’ll tie an elk hair caddis and for a dropper I’ll tie a bead head caddis pupae.

9

Hi, I changed my name from alaskabou to ontario steelheader and my emal address from appleyard_sk84life@hotmail.com to ontario steelheader@hotmail.com
can you get rid of alaskabou and put ontario steelheader down instead
ill do the same pattern

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If there is room I’ll join 2 flies a cream dry fly and a bead head something small. Just let me know where to send as they will be done soon. If there is room. Later Matt

To each there own !

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My flies are done I need addy to send them out to. Thanks Matt

To each there own !

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ontario steelheader,

Any dropper will do, larvae or otherwise. There’s no restriction on hook style.

13

6 spots left. I would like to see this one fill up. Any takers??

14

Received flies from Matt (stonefly71) on saturday. Nice looking cream dry and blue bead dropper. Sign-ups close tomorrow.

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Hi all,

Just a FYI, I decided to change my dry to a Goddard caddis. I like the Goddard as a dry for the dropper system since it floats so well. The beadhead will remain the same. I whipped out a couple of Goddard tonight and most came out OK. Like Tom Anderson said on Beavis and Butthead, “It’s not what ya’ cut, it’s what ya don’t cut…”

L

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Lonnie,

No problem on the switch. How do you trim your Goddard caddis? I am looking for a good pair of scissors to do this.

Thanks

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Me Too! :slight_smile:

As I found out last night, you really need very sharp and very fine scissors to make them look really good. The ones I was using last night weren’t cutting it (pun intended). I’m going to try and pick up a good pair of Dr. Slicks sometime this week.

The other 1/2 of the equation is good spinning hair. I’m using antelope for these. It’s very compressible and very pliable. The downside is it’s pretty brittle. On the Goddard it dosen’t really matter since you trim it so close. It’s also super important that you pack it really tight towards the hook shank. It helps give it the “right” look.

I’m also debating the worth of time/effort of putting on the antenna on these. I generally cut them off before I tie them on anyway. The look better but unless you are fishing the long horned caddis (Leptoceridae) hatch I don’t think they make much of a difference in how they catch fish. They also makes it really difficult to get the hackle to look right and to get a good head wrapped.

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I find a double edged razor blade to be very good for most of trimming on a Goddard Caddis. Antelope hair is a smart choice.

19

I will tie a deer hair dry with a midge pupae. It has worked great for me on bluegills and bass and crappie.

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I would like to join in on the swap if there is room. I’ll tie a Stimulator and a Bead-Headed Prince. Since this is what I caught my first fish on fly fishing this past fall.

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