Work has kept me from posting about this until now (job security, but man-oh-man the hours are killer! Still have yet to be on the water this season...), but I received a set of wonderful flies for the dry fly swap - except for that one that I got back tied by myself. I'll use that one to get the fish to laugh so hard that I can scoop then up while they're distracted with their laughter. ...Or something like that...
All kidding aside, well done, everyone. I can't wait to copy these! Oh, and I must confess, I took some liberties with materials on my fly, compared to the original pattern, or at least the pattern as it exists in its current state as *considered* to be "original", but I tried my best to keep the general idea, and impression given by the materials the same (i.e. speckled CDL tail in place of "darkly speckled champagne spade hackle tail", and a single strand of embroidery thread wrapped 6 times used in place of "a tag of six wraps tightly corded, sparse and defuzzed, thread made of pig wool, of color muted brown with olive"). Send to me off-list if you want the so-called / considered original recipe, and let me know where you acquire such materials if you have a source for them. The recipe is one handed down through the generations on my maternal side, which is in fact Clan Campbell of Cawdor (Scotland), and I do not know how "authentic" the recipe I have is, that is, how true to the original it is (it has had something like 13 generations of 'whisper down the lane', and I don't doubt that it started as a wet fly and ended up as the dry fly it is today much later down the line), but it is still a neat little pattern to tie up. And it catches fish! Thanks for putting up with my circumlocution about this family fly, and let me know off-list if you want more info about it. . Tight lines, -Pete On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Rene Zillmann <rene.zillm...@t-online.de> wrote: > All, > > got mine yesterday. > > Great flies, thanks to all, who participated. A lot of flies to copy... > > Best > > Rene > > On 04/15/2017 09:48 PM, Phxflytyer wrote: > > Any Peggy, just a short couple of hours south of Mike, I am in Mesa AZ. > Plenty of good fishing here also. > > > Sent from my iPad > > Thank You, > Alan Di Somma > Phoenix, AZ. > > Some mistakes are just too much fun to make only once. > > > > On Apr 15, 2017, at 12:40 PM, Michael Bliss <flyfish...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Received my dry and streamer flies today. Thanks again to Peggy and to > all the tyers. Ya'll did a mighty fine job. > > And Peggy if you get close to us here in Utah on your travels let us know > and maybe we can wet a line together. > > Mike > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 9:09 PM, Allan Fish <afi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >> On 4/13/17 10:23 PM, Phxflytyer wrote: >> >>> I ignored your fly if that will make you feel better? >>> >> >> Thank you! >> >> >> -- >> -- >> 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 >> vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> 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 >> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "VFB Mail" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Mike Bliss > > -- > -- > 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 vfb-mail-unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > 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 vfb-mail-unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > -- > 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 vfb-mail-unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. 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