I?ve got this wacky swap idea. Let?s take all the colors of the rainbow plus black and white. Each person will pick ONE of the colors listed and tie a pattern that uses that color for any material (fur, feather, floss, etc.) in a major way. Any style of fly goes from teeny indigo nymphs (??) to glorious Blue salmon flies. The color doesn?t have to be in the name of the fly, just in the materials. Tie 9 of the same fly and send them in with toe tags, crush-proof container, self-addressed envelope with return postage. YOU MUST BE ON TIME with your flies. If you send them in after the deadline, they?ll be returned to you unopened and the rest of us will be bummed.
To sign up, it?s first come, first served. You name the color AND name the fly. You?re not considered signed up until you choose a fly. I?ll start it off with a Violet Partridge.
Sign up by: December 15th
Flies due to me by: January 15th
RED…Royal Wulff…Rainbow Variant RECEIVED
ORANGE…Betty Hiner.Partridge&Orange RECEIVED
YELLOW…Gardenfish…Yellow Wet RECEIVED
GREEN…Jim Hatch…Green Jelly Bean RECEIVED
BLUE…Sirrom…Blue Damselfly RECEIVED
INDIGO… ssh&w…Indigo Bugger RECEIVED
VIOLET …Diane … Purple&Olive Clouser TIED
BLACK … Mike K. … Black Spey RECEIVED
WHITE… lee s … Surf Candy RECEIVED
[This message has been edited by Diane (edited 17 January 2006).]
Not wacky at all Diane. I’ll tie a rainbow variant…a four hackle dry fly. This is a fly I created about three years ago that I often tie at shows to give away to kids as a show souvenir. At the Sowbug one year I gave away almost 50 of them. It has a red tail and red is one of the hackle feathers. It is a good warm/cold water dry fly and great for bluegill or brookies. I’ll tie it in a size #10.
Later, RW
“We fish for pleasure; I for mine, you for yours.” -James Leisenring on fishing the wet fly-
[This message has been edited by Royal Wulff (edited 24 November 2005).]
I will replicate a yellow wet with which I caught a lovely feisty rainbow in September. It does not have a name but it catches fish. IT is mostly feather with a bit of floss for the tag.
OK, Gardenfish, Betty, and Sirrom… thanks for joining!
So green, white, and indigo are left, folks. I don’t know about you but I’ve never heard of an indigo fly. Think bright bluish purple, I guess. Who’s next?
sunskyhooksnwater… sounds great but I’m hereby officially dubbing (no pun intended) your fly to an Indigo Bugger… we’ll just pretend we know what that color is like.
lee s. great! Surf Candy it is. Looks like a fantastic minnow.
Welcome aboard everyone.
If you would all send me your email addresses, I’d appreciate it. Put the words Colorful Swap in the Subject line to keep it out of my Junk folder. Thanks.
will start in about a week or so, just gotta take care of a few swap first(get the stuff mailed out n such). cant waite too see how this one turns out too…
[This message has been edited by sunskyhooksnwater (edited 26 November 2005).]
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