Wes, The purpose of the co-op swap as to share hackles from different saddles, since one saddle will tie 10 lifetimes of flies for a non-commercial tier.
Don't spend $100+ for a saddle if you are not a pro-tier. Just get a 10 pak, which is good for many years of tying personal use flies. Plus you can get many colors and sizes and have some variety for the same price- again, the reason for the co-op swap. The co-op swap was a good idea, if I do say so myself. We'll have to re-vive it some day, if Byard no longer has it on his site. We can still buy the saddles from him and get 'pluckers' from the list. Remember that? DonO ----- Original Message ----- From: Wes Wada To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 8:09 PM Subject: [VFB] Mystery of Midge Saddles I was just looking at www.linesend.com, searching for the Whiting saddle swap, or whatever it was called. That feature is currently off the site (was nice while it lasted!) Then, I noticed that Whiting midge saddles are now at $116.00 ! So, a question for our rooster experts...What is the difficulty in breeding or getting a good quality midge saddle? Is the bird part of a specific breeding line meant to grow a small rooster, or something? (The mind boggles.) Thanks, Wes Wada Bend, Oregon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.7.5/1708 - Release Date: 10/4/08 11:35 AM --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
