bugs are done, will go in mail thurs. cant wait to get this swap back as poppers are my favorite way to fish, love the action… cmon spring!!!
thanks all
gary
roger,
how about an update
norm
Mine are on the way. I changed one of them to a yellow perch pattern because my pink Prismacolor marker died.
I recieved GLoy’s flies on Saturday (Gary, nice flies by the way!).
That just leaves Gigmaster and foambug65.
foambug said flies are on the way, as soon as they all get here, they’ll be divided up and shipped back out within a day.
Still waiting for Gigmaster’s and foambug65’s flies. 
Hope it’s just the winter weather slowing down delivery.
The Post Office stuck it to me again. They have opened my package and mailed my own flies back to me. You will undoubtably recieve an empty envelope. This is the fourth time they have done this, and they will not refund my postage. I’ve had it with them this time. I am complaining to my elected officials, since the Postmaster says they’ve done nothing wrong.
I will re-send the flies overnight via Fed-Ex tomorrow.
Recieved foambug’s, well…foam bugs today! 
Albeit without SASE :rolleyes:, but the flies arrived safely nonetheless. As soon as Gigmasters arrives, they will be poppin’ back out to everyone.
any reason why the post office is doing that??
They say they are not openning my mail, but someone over there is. I don’t know if they are looking for money, or what, but I’ve had it with them. All 4 times over the last 6 months, they have refused to refund my postage, and forced me to have to use Fed-Ex to send things, at a much higher rate, (allbeit, much more reliable service). I have even called the District Postmaster about it, to no avail.
I am calling my elected State officials this morning and putting them on notice. They need to fix this, or I start blogging. Elections aren’t that far off.
So much for my daily rant.
Happy fishing…
ok here is my addy
Michael Hackwith
p.o.box 235
guffey,colo.
80820
I received a call from home today. Gig’s flies showed up but clearly there was issues with the package. The flies and box are said to all seem to be intact, but the package is form the post office where it appears it was repackaged. I’ll get all the flies divided and re-packages tonight and off to the post office in the morning. I’ll post a confirmation after they go postal.
I did receive Gigmaster’s flies today. Here is how the USPS “PRIORITY” envelope arrived. It looks like it was ripped open and then taped (as indicated by the yellow lines)., All I had to do get the fly box out was cut the tape as indicated by the red lines. There are 12 flies in the box along with a shipping label for return postage. Gig if there was anything else in there I didn’t get it.
Thats the last batch of flies. I’m taking pictures and sorting them now. If I can get to the P.O. before they close at noon in the morning they will go out then.
i’m not a csi agent nor do i play one on tv but if a usps worker was going to open up a package to “inspect the contents” do you really think they would just rip open the envelop like that??
All the flies are in the mail and on the way back to everyone. A nice bunch of flies, I think everyone will be pleased.
Please post when you receive them. Once all have acknowledged receipt, I will officially close this swap.
Looking forward to seeing the package. Thanks for hosting the swap.
got my flies today, nice batch of bugs thanks to everyone…
cant wait to try them out! cmon spring!!!
gary
Got mine today also. You guys have inspired me to do better and to try some other things.
Thanks to all for a really great job. I can’t wait for some top water action here in the sunny south. Especially after last weeks low teens.
got mine yesterday. nice set of flies. love those hipps poppers
got mine today !!! they rock …so i dont think a 5x will be on some of these huh? …but they all look great!!!big bug = big bass