Toby is my Quaker Parakeet. Toby sings ?Take Me Out To The Ballgame? and especially likes the line about crackerjack. He also sings ?Old MacDonald? but refuses to populate the farm with anything but ducks. He laughs a lot (usually just before trying to bite me) and he is a great buddy. But most importantly, Toby has really cool looking tail feathers. I?ve been collecting his molted tail feathers for the past year.
This swap is limited to 8 participants, including myself. If you want to join you have to post here saying you?re joining and what you’ll be tying (if you know) and send me an email with your name and street address. I?ll mail you two of Toby?s tail feathers. You then will tie 8 flies using any part of these feathers. You can create your own fly or you can substitute Toby?s feather for anything you want in any already existing pattern. The fly can be for trout, bass, salmon, panfish, or tarpon and can be on any size hook. It can be a nymph, dry, wet, streamer, fully dressed salmon fly. It just has to be fishable and you have to name it if it doesn’t already have a name. You?ll then send all eight flies, with toe tags in a crush-proof container with an return-addressed envelope and the proper amount of return postage to me by the due date. I?ll photo them all for this thread and distribute the Toby flies promptly.
Due Dates:
Sign-up: October 1 or until 8 participants are on board … DONE
Email me your address: within 24 hours of signing up … DONE
Me getting you your feathers: I?ll mail them first class within 2 days of getting your address, once we?ve got enough participants to run the swap. …MAILED ON 9/26
Flies due to me: November 1
Me getting you your flies: I?ll mail them out within 3 days of getting them all. Mailed 11/14
Participants:
Diane: Toby Marabou Streamer
FlyingCarp: QT Nymph RECEIVED
tyflier: Toby Tail and Mallard RECEIVED
Feenom: Catskill Quaker RECEIVED
Greg H: Rogan’s Pearly Extractor RECEIVED
billknepp: McToby RECEIVED
Antron Midge: Toby Biot Emerger RECEIVED
Mike Popick: Copper John var. RECEIVED
[This message has been edited by Diane (edited 14 November 2005).]
You’re in, Jeff. Email me your full name and snail mail address and I’ll get you your feathers as soon as we know we have enough for the swap to be a go.
Hi Diane…what a fun idea for a swap! I’d like to give it a try. The feathers look like they might make some cool wetfly wings. I’ll decide what to tie when I see them. …thanks…Jason
thanks to Toby too!
e-mail coming
I’m in if you want to mail to Canada. I will do a Rogan’s Pearly Extractor variant. (yes, it’s a winged wetfly/mini-streamer probalby imitating a brook trout fry)
Diane I’d like to see what I might be able to come up with,If You wouldn’t mind me tagging along…This one is a unique swap for sure…Can’t exactly put a name to it…But i’m thinking of something along the lines of the McGinty wet fly…!!!
[EDIT] Errr,McToby wet fly…LOL…
“I’ve often wondered why it is that so many anglers spend so much money on,and pay so much attention to.the details on the wrong end of the fly line.If they took as much care in selecting or tying their flies as they did in the selection of the reel and rod,They might be able to gain the real extra edge that makes it possible to fool a fish that has,in fact,seen it all before” A.K.Best
“Wish ya great fishing”
Bill
[This message has been edited by billknepp (edited 18 September 2005).]
Feathers are on their way, folks. Now, about those envelopes: first I added dumb cute return address stickers with dogs on them because they’re all I had and I figured that at least dogs make good dubbing. Then at the post office the clerk asked if I cared which stamps she put on the envelopes so I said “Nope. Whatever’s on top in the drawer.” Sigh. You’ll see.
OK, finished flies with postage paid self-addressed return crush-proof packaging to be sent to:
I got back from vacation too late to join this swap but I hope you good folks will post the patterns you come up with. I have a lot of Quaker feathers from a co-worker who raises them and could use some new ideas. Also if anyones feathers get lost in the mail and Dianne doesn’t have spares I can help.
all leaders tangle; mine are just better at it than most. Jim
Thanks rainbowchaser. I’ll photo the flies and post them. Hopefully the swap members will post their patterns as they send them in. I wish I could have made the swap larger but those feathers are pretty small and I only had enough for two each. I’ve got a few extras but if the post office loses more than one set, we’ll be knocking on your door.
Have you tied anything with yours yet?
Diane
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming-WOW—What A Ride!
Diane, I received the feathers today. SOOOOOO SMALL! They looked bigger in the picture “G”. It will be a good challenge for me. Was thinking streamer pattern but, after seeing the feathers, it looks like I need to think some more!
Well Miss Diane,
I’ll see what I can come up with,I had’nt taken into consideration the thought of being limited in certian ways.
If Rainbow chaser might happen to have a right, the lenth of a Pilot G2 gelpen,It’d give a better suited matched pair for what I was thinking…
no matter what, I have another idea for a commonly seen summer time terresterial that the smaller of the two will be great for…and I might even get the full eight flies off it at that…
“I’ve often wondered why it is that so many anglers spend so much money on,and pay so much attention to.the details on the wrong end of the fly line.If they took as much care in selecting or tying their flies as they did in the selection of the reel and rod,They might be able to gain the real extra edge that makes it possible to fool a fish that has,in fact,seen it all before” A.K.Best
Sorry Bill All the tail feathers I have are quite small too. Quakers I have seen are only about the size of a pigeon and their feathers aren’t all that large.
all leaders tangle; mine are just better at it than most. Jim
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