Old Farts Fly Swap.

[KP]

Hello folks,

Thought I would put this on a thread of its own. So the "rules" are:
Tie ONE fly of your choice.

Post a photo on thisa thread of the fly along with the recipe.

Room for as many of you that want to join in.

Age must be OVER 50 (days old!!)

Do all this with no worries about deadlines, post costs, tying hundreds of flies etc etc. 
It can even be a photo of your favourite fly that you tied 20 years ago!!
So far there is 
Peggy Brenner

Gary Webb
Rene Zillman

Me

Look foreward to hearing from you and seeing your flies.

Best from Blighty
Keith

[Rene Zillmann]

Hi Keith,

I'm wondering if we should not collect the fly images and create one post with all flies on our Facebook-group. Would be a new sort of swap/post-master. This would require a deadline for sure. Each tyer would later add the recipe / materials list in an comment for the fly.

What are you and the others thinking?

Best

René

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[Peggy Brenner]

Good idea Rene

Peggy B

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[KP]

Good shout Swap Meister :-)  So send them here and then put all in one post on the FB group works for me boss. Just need a feww to sign up and send a photo in

Thanks Rene

Regards

Keith

[Byard Miller]

Here’s my favorite … or favorites!

Keep Tyin’ … byard

Sent from Byard's iPhone

On May 5, 2023, at 6:11 PM, 'KP' via VFB Mail <vfb-...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Good shout Swap Meister :-)  So send them here and then put all in one post on the FB group works for me boss. Just need a feww to sign up and send a photo in

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[Bruce Whittle]

Byard,

Those were some of my favorites as well (the big caddis swaps)!  I really miss the old days!

Bruce Whittle

On May 5, 2023, at 9:21 PM, Byard Miller <bya...@gmail.com> wrote:

Here’s my favorite … or favorites!

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[Michael Bliss]

I still have these swaps in the fly boxes.  Good memories.

Mike

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[Rene Zillmann]

Hi Byard,

look good. Now for the recipes....

Best

Rene

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[Byard Miller]

Here you go Rene…

Take a hook and wrap some stuff on it. Catch a fish. 

Keep tyin’ … byard

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Hi Byard,

look good. Now for the recipes....

Best

Rene

On 06/05/2023 04:21, Byard Miller wrote:

Here’s my favorite … or favorites!

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[KP]

Haha Byard. Good to see you here still. And yup that recipe of yours works a dream. Some great tyers were on those old forum days. 
Hope you are well Byard and still wrapping stuff and catchin fish.

[Peggy Brenner]

Silver Doctor hair wing salmon for all of us remaining old farts.

Peggy B

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[KP]

Love it. I will upload my photo later today.
Regards

Keith

[Pete Gramp]

I just tried sending my submission from my camera and ring light setup, and I'm not sure if it went through or not. Could someone please let me know? I'm not seeing anything sent from myself to the group, so I have no way of knowing if it went through. 

While here, I might as well say the recipe for the fly:

Hook: 7xl streamer

Body: orange floss

Rib: 11 wraps silver oval lagartun tinsel

Throat: 5 to 7 fronds bronze peacock herl overlaid first with yellow then white bucktail

Wing: baby blue hackle "pad" overlaid with slightly smaller grizzle[y] hackle "pad", with excess baby blue showing above grizzle[y]. (The original says grizzle, I added the y, and I added the quotes around pad, as it means a pair of hackle tips)

Cheek: Mallard flank or teal extended long, 1/2 to 3/4 the shank length

(Optional, I omitted): Cheek overlay, jungle coque

My fly's head is WAY more pronounced than I would have liked, but hey... I'm an old fart and the eyes are going on me...

Hope the picture went through OK.

-Pete

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[Pete Gramp]

Let's try this one again...

A Rangeley lakes streamer called "Lake Messalonski Streamer". This holds a special place in my heart as every summer our family travels to Maine and stays right on the edge of Lake Messalonski. It is a newer pattern, because in the time of Rangeley streamers first being vogue, the Lake was known as "long pond".

-Pete

[KP]

Hi Pete,

Yup the pic came through looks lovely boss. Thanks

Regards

Keith

[Michael Bliss]

I have been concentrating on Euro nymphing for the last while so I will share a recent tie.  It is an olive flash perdigon.  I’m sending the fly photo first and then the tying instructions.  Sorry I am not a whiz on computers.  

Mike Bliss

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Love it. I will upload my photo later today.

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[Michael Bliss]

Here's the tying instructions.  My photo was bad sorry about that.

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[KP]

Here you go folks. My modified Mohican Mayfly. Its original pattern was tied by Oliver Edwards who passed away last month. This is a simpler version of his fly.

Recipe

Hook Size 10 Sprite Barbless Grub hook

Thread  Brown 8/0 Semperfli Classic Waxed

Tail Moose mane

Extended body  Cream 2mm foam sheet cut to 2mm wide. Body is made on a pin.

Wing Deer Hair

Hackle Parachute style Blue Dun. Use Grizzly too.
Thorax. There is no thorax in the recipe but I tidied it up with a bit of peacock hearl to cover all the thread turns.

If you vary the pin diameter for the body you can make the body in different sizes and colours. Ive done them down to a size 18.

Being foam it makes the fly float really well too.

Enjoy