Fly Swap Round 2?

[Don]

Motroutbum,

I'm in the same situation as flyswap 1. My main go-to fly was gray dubbing spun on a scud hook. Too general and simple of a fly so I tied a unique ant pattern.

This time, my favorite midge pattern is too simple and popular so I'll verbally give the recipe of the copper dun zebra midge. I've caught more fish this year off this fly than any other:

Size 18 curved scud hook.

5/64 oz copper tungsten bead head.

Rusty dun thread body and throat.

Size small copper wire for zebra.

Light tan thread body works just as well.

Anyhow, that would be the easy out for me but I think I'll take the high road on this one.

I will introduce one of my own unique patterns. It's an egg pattern that has only worked at Taney and under certain conditions. I call it Eggs Bodacious.

Don

[duckydoty]

I'm in with a blood midge that works pretty good at Bennet for me.

Duckydoty

[Greg]

Can someone tell me how this works? How many flies each partipant ties? Is it one for each person in the swap?

I'd like to participate but it might depend on how many flies I would need to tie. Work is kind of crazy right now.

thanks,

Greg

[Danoinark]

Greg

Typically you would tie a fly for each member of the swap, excluding yourself of course. You would package them up and attach a toe tag to the fly which gives a description of who tied it and the recipe.

When tying a midge for instance what I do is tape the bug to an index card along with the recipe. You send those along in a box or other packaging with return postage to the swapmeister. He organizes and seperates and sends one of each back to you. On the last swap there were rules posted on that particular swap, such as when the flys needed to be completed and mailed, etc.

Dano

[timsfly]

Count me in, I just got back from 6 days on the San Juan I'm over run with #22 and #24 midges, fishing was great. I tied flies every night, so I have plenty.

Forgot to tell what midge I would tie, I'll tie #24 brown midge larva, they really worked good on the juan last week, and they work just as well on taney and at R.R., they are simple but effective.

[Kicknbass]

count me in. I'll tie a simple scud pattern.

[Micheal Kyle]

Sorry I did not pay attention to the midge theme. I will tie a brassie.

motrutbum is hard--- (LOL)

Michael

[mizzouflyfisher]

I'm in with an olive midge emerger.

Mizzouflyfisher

[motroutbum]

I moved this post to the origanal post at the top of the topic

Tight lines,

Randy

[Luke]

I'll be tying some form of a zebra midge.