This is my first swap I’ve hosted, so any advice would be appreciated as I muddle through. This is a NFL Swap starting today since the first of the preseason games are starting. There will be 12 tiers including myself, and no limit to the type of fly to tie, but they need to be in connection to your favorite NFL team, past or present player, coach, owner, staff, etc. The deadline for sign-up is 10 September (start of the regular season); deadline for finishing flies is 1 October. If things run faster, we’ll just wrap up early. You know the usual: sturdy box. return postage, etc. Thanks for joining.
I’ll join in. I’m going to make a chiefs version of my yellow submarine. It will be red and white instead of yellow. We can call it an arrowhead, I suppose.
Hi, can I get into this swap I believe I could come up with something different. I would like to tie a Royal Steeler Champion in the color naturally of Black and Gold.
I’ll do something Viking. Give me a moment to give it some thought, atlhough it will most likely be a streamer – something sleek tht moves quickly downstream. Something like a party boat. JGW
I notice most of you live in trout country, so if i tye a streamer please give me a range of streamer hook sizes. I’m sure my typical warmwater 4 and 6’s will be much too large for your style of fishing. JGW
I fish for trout some of the time but I also fish for LMB, Strippers and Pike. I use a lot of large flies. Like right now it is way to hot for trout so I have been using my 8wt to fish for strippers and pike. for them I use flies from a size 4 all the way up to 3/0. It is great to have many kinds of fisheries. Just to give you an example of the fish here the state record strip is 68 #. Just wanted to let you know about some of the fishing here in TN. I use a lot of Large Clousers and Decievers and Large Salmon Flies. But I also fish a lot for small Brookies. So I have to have flies in all sizes and rods in all sizes. John
I live in a warm water area so I very seldom if ever even hear of trout being caught. A #6 tie works for me, but at times I will fish a #20 or smaller to catch bream. Now the fly I’m tying will be a #10 bream fly.
I’m very comfortable with tying 6’s, and use them more than 4’s. When I got back into tying after about a 20 years absence I was still in the big fly mode, but it’s been proven to me thanks to the underwater denisens that small hooks/flys work very well. On the other hand, I’ve tied a couple of 18s and a few more 14s, but 12s are about as low as I go. 6-10 are the hooks that basically fill my hook box. So I’ll do my Viking Streamer on a 6. Thanks for the responses. JGW
You know the usual: sturdy box. return postage, etc. Thanks for joining.