LOL, well I for sure don't want to buy 1000 of ALL of the ones I listed. (not
right now anyway)
Those were just my most-wanted ones.
Green is a duplicate of ones I wanted for swapping.
700B could be used as a parachute emerger dry fly.
For this to work, though, everyone has to agree on 10 styles & sizes,
so that they would get 1/10th of each 1000 hook bag.
That's why I sent in 10 picks. I won't get all of the ones I want, but I buy
one of the bags.
If you only pick one, then what are the other 9 that you'll be getting 100 of?
What can you use for your type of fishing?
Remember the Whiting Co-op swap:
Had to have 5 swappers pick 5 different saddles to divide up (I thing it was
5). Then you got 1/5th of each saddle- variety vs bulk and much better pricing
than the 10-paks. But these were dry-fly saddles all, a narrow range for a
particular fly. Byard picked out lots of 5 by requests and availabily, like
midge saddles, and 5 co-oppers signed up for each set. If you didn't want
midge hackles or dry fly hackles, this was not your swap.
That's why I had a narrow window of trout hooks, but I could branch out with
other hooks I can use.
Rick needs to evaluate the requests and negotiate the most favored hooks.
Swappers must give a range and not be too dead set. Once he has 10 hooks
styles in 10 sizes that 10 swappers agree on, he has a complete co-op swap. I
will donate some hooks to Rick and some flies and make sure he has enough $$$
for S&H to make it worth his while.
Hardest part- 10 swappers settle on 10 hook models and sizes.
Send Rick the average cost of all hooks (once settled), so that you don't buy
1000 expensive hooks and get 900 less expensive hooks back.
Pay with Paypal or direct to Rick.
Send Rick a SABox with postage to be determined by Rick. Include in box
whatever for Rick's efforts.
End result is that you'll have 10 bags of 100 hooks of styles and sizes you
want (1000 total) for around $45.
My 'tip' to Rick will be a 5-hook kick-back of each size. Fair enough for the
work he'll do.
Once we work out the bugs, this method should work out as well as the Whiting
swaps did.
And there's no reason we can't do another Whiting Co-op swap, even is Byard is
on a different venture right now.
Saltwater SS hooks should be a separate swap for those in salt water.
Name style size
Peggy Brenner 700B 10
Joyce Westphal 135 16
" 070? 16
Rick Zieger 300 14
Don Ordes 320 10
" 320 12
" 320 14
Don Ordes 280 6
" 280 8
" 280 10
" 280 12
Don Ordes 270 4
" 270 6
" 270 8
Rene Zillman 270 12
Wayne Blake-Hedges 700B? 12
Neville (Nev) Gosling
Greater Vancouver,
B.C. Canada
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