Chum fly swap

[Curtis]

It is about that time of year, was waiting for a chum swap to pop up, but I will take the reigns on this one. How about no more than 12 people. One fly each. Deadline November 18, so we can all go fishing thanksgiving morning with our swap flies.

Who's in????? Jason??

Final Total of 10 tyers.

Curtis
Jason
James Mello
Sturgeon crazy
Hedburner
Cameron Derbyshire
Ringlee
Daryle Holmstrom
Willie Bodger
Stlfirehouse


Address:
Curtis Warren
1515 nw 52nd st #405
Seattle, WA 98107

[Jason]

I thought the deal was I tie small flies and you tie big flie.

Oh what the hell, although that means a trip to the fly shop!

[James Mello]

It is about that time of year, was waiting for a chum swap to pop up, but I will take the reigns on this one. How about no more than 12 people. One fly each. Deadline November 18, so we can all go fishing thanksgiving morning with our swap flies.

Who's in????? Jason??

Groovy... will tie some up tonite... At least with Chum flies they aren't super involved!

[sturgeon crazy]

I would be interested. just got my first chum of the season a couple of days ago on the elochamen but not to many have shown up yet.
SC

[hedburner]

I'll go in. All in with something purple. Purple kicks on dogs. Purple bunny worms! Why ? Cuz up in the Skagit Sauk, not only will dogs take em' but big ass gnarly dollies too!

[Cameron Derbyshire]

Count me in! Now for something creative!

[Ringlee]

Does it have to Be a Chum Fly for WA or will an Alaska Variant work?

[Curtis]

Ringlee, Alaska variant will work.

5 more spots to go!!

[Daryle Holmstrom]

Guess I'll invent something too.

Daryle

[Cameron Derbyshire]

Flies are done and will be sent next week! (photo in my gallery)

[Jason]

Cameron, you are the man!

Mine are done and photo is in my gallery.

[Ringlee]

I will do my Alaska chum fly that has caught a ton of Chums!

[Daryle Holmstrom]

got enough material to tie up 14 flies, will give two to the meister on the final count :p so far only 7 in:confused:

[Curtis]

Oh come on folks!!!! It only takes a couple hours to tie up a dozen chum flies!!! Just 5 more people.

[Willie Bodger]

OK, I'll jump in on this one. R U guys tying for salt or fresh?

wb

[Daryle Holmstrom]

I'm using stainless hooks so both I guess.


Daryle

[Curtis]

Also using stainless.

[Curtis]

Closing the swap on friday the third.

[Daryle Holmstrom]

Finishing up tomorrow, need a address for snail mail.

I'll post a photo tomorrow.

Daryle

[Christian Brewer]

I'll get in on this also. I'm very excired because this will be my first fly swap. How does it work, I'm guessing that I mail them to you Curtis in a fly box with my return postage pre-paid?

I have 8 of 12 tied up tonight (on stainless hooks also). I'll finish the rest tomorrow night and post pic.

Christian

[Daryle Holmstrom]

Oh crapola does that mean I have to tie another one. LOL, jump in Christian

Daryle

[Jason]

I'll get in on this also. I'm very excired because this will be my first fly swap. How does it work, I'm guessing that I mail them to you Curtis in a fly box with my return postage pre-paid?

I have 8 of 12 tied up tonight (on stainless hooks also). I'll finish the rest tomorrow night and post pic.

Christian

Go to the main Swap page and read the sticky thread on how a swap works.
And welcome. This is my second swap in a row. I like them because it forces me to tie.

[Christian Brewer]

Aha! Thanks Jason.

Christian

[Daryle Holmstrom]

Mine are done:

hook-size 2 stainless
tail-chartreuse marabou
body-pink ice yarn
hackle collar-chartreuse saddle
keel-25 pound maxima with one oval hematite and two green craft beads

Designed to make hook to ride upside down Alaskan bouncer style

Daryle

http://home.comcast.net/~gold04/pub/chummy.jpg

[Ringlee]

I am halfway done. I am running out of hooks so I will being ordering more.
Chris

[Curtis]

Received flies from both cameron and Daryle yesterday!!!
Sweet lookin flies!!!! Cant wait to fish them!!!!

[Jason]

You will get mine when I remember to bring them to work so I can drop them off.

[Christian Brewer]

I finished mine up on Friday but couldn't make it to the post office on Saturday morning. My wife will be mailing them today. I posted a pic in my gallery.

Christian

[Curtis]

sounds good christian!!

[Curtis]

So since there are 10 tyers, where should the extras be allocated to??
Best Fly, original tyers???
What is your vote??

[Daryle Holmstrom]

To the meister of course :p

[Jason]

The swap meister's brother :thumb:

[Curtis]

The swap meister's brother :thumb:


comedian here!!!
If we get enough extras, I will send one extra for each tyer.

[Curtis]

Received christian's today. Very nice!!!

[Christian Brewer]

Thanks Curtis, I was a little nervous because I just started tying in the last few months. And I vote the swapmeister can keep any extras.

Christian

[Jason]

No worries Christian, I am just getting started as well.

Can't wait to try out all these flies over Thanksgiving if the waters get close to normal.

One more week tiers!

[Curtis]

Christian, your flies do not look like you just started. Impressive!

[Christian Brewer]

Daryle, how did you get such a great pic of your fly. I could not get either of my digital cameras to focus in that closely on the fly, so my pictures all look a little blury. And the pictures that are less blury are from my waterproof sony zoomless 1.0 mega-pixel camera.

Christian

[Daryle Holmstrom]

I use a Canon 250-D closeup add on lens. It's about 4x and focus's at about 8 inches. My camera is the fuji s7000. Lighting was with the new norvise lamp I just got with a piece of gray felt thrown down for a background. The lamp is very easy on the eyes I might add. I always set my white balance to custom to get the proper balance.

I have more invested in photography stuff than fly stuff, but the fly stuff is catching is catching up.

Did I mention my metal detecting hobby with over 50 golds rings and a $20 gold piece found.

Daryle

[ak_powder_monkey]

i'd join up but I don't feel like parting with any egg sucking leaches :D ;)