Swap of the month - October

All about flies Fly Swaps
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As posted on the September thread, this month’s theme is Halloween.

  1. ol’ blue
  2. bassman - soft hackle spider - RECEIVED
  3. kb8uvm - withdrawn
  4. feltsole - partrige and orange
  5. ben - black widow - RECEIVED
  6. Danny Gober - RECEIVED
  7. FISHNFOOL9 - RECEIVED
  8. ibrb - booby streamer - RECEIVED
  9. Sirrom - “Halloween” Rubber Legged Dragon - RECEIVED
  10. johnniewalker - Chernobyl Ant - RECEIVED
2

I have orange deerhair, black marabou, white marabou. I’ll find some hooks. Looks like a muddler to me. Dan

3

Pattern will be a Booby Streamer. Going to be a neat swap.

4

My entry will be a Rubber-Legged Dragon (RLD) in black and orange.
Chuck

5

For those who may not have noticed, we are back up to 10 tyers again. johnniewalker is part of the group now. Welcome!

6

Flies in the mail today ( monday ) thank’s for the swap. Do I need to get the turkey feathers out.

7

Flies in the mail. Name: Chernobyl Fallout Ant (orange/black)
JW

8

Received flies from johnnie walker and ibrb.

9

Received flies from bassman.

10

My October flies will be in the mail Tuesday 10-13-08
The fly is of my own design- ok the GF’s design. I will call it “HAPPY HALLOWEEN”

Brian

11

The “Halloween” Rubber Legged Dragon’s are in the capable hands of the USPS.
Chuck

12

Received flies from sirrom.

13

Thanks for the update.
Chuck

14

Well after 30+ hooks and a few choice words i went to plan B. Long story short my flies are in the mail and i hate epoxy! Cheers.

15

LOL,
Ok Ben your killing us, tell the story!!!

Brian

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So i wanted to do an epoxy body for my black widow to give it a more realistic look. On the first atempt every thing went perfect so i tied up all the rest and aplied the epoxy and put them on the dryer.The next day when i checked on them the epoxy had settled over the hook and all over the legs. no big deal i just used to much epoxy. Round two, again i tied up all 10 and this time used alot less epoxy. The next day i found bubbles all over the body of the flies. at that point i felt i was about out of time and patience so i went to plan B. So instead of a cool scary black widow everyone gets a cute foam spider with a red belly.On the bright side it will float and be more likely to catch fish. All in all a bad day at the vise beats a good day in the office.
so no real complaints.

17

Received flies from ben and fishnfool9.

18

Received flies from Danny Gober.

19

I will ship out flies sometime this week. I won’t have time to get pictures posted for this one, so if someone can cover for me this month, I’d appreciate it. Otherwise, I’ll do my best to get back on track next month. Sorry for the omission.

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You don’t have any reason for being sorry blue, you are doing a fantastic job with all of the swaps you are conducting. Thanks a lot. John