Size 18 or samller emerger patterns swap
1 Kelvin -done
2 Riseform-done recieved
3 james.jimenez-done
4 McNasty
5 Rob Ast
6 Chad Lewis
7 Ron Eagle Elk- done & received
8 Irafly
9 Ron McNeal
10 dryflylarry -done and received
11 zen leecher aka bill w
12 Richard Torres
bonus tyer
13 Mayfly Aviator
I'm going with a mid emerger. When mids emerge they will tend to stick both their heads and then tails up first leaving their middle section in the water. The middle section tends to shine with the built up gasses regardless of the original color of the bug so my emergers are silver/static bag and they have flotation on both ends.
All day on CQ.. I'm done.. I hope these catch fish, please let me know if you use them and if they produce.. I need a mailing address to get these out..
Kelvin, Update your first post and add the amount of flies each tyer needs to send in. There won't be any questions that way. 12 flies works for me. I'm giving thoughts of going with one of Hans's patterns.
kelvin, I know I just mailed a bunch of crane flies but I no longer have your address. Your "host" bonus fly is yet another cranefly pattern, a CDC bodied beauty stolen from Hans' website.
I decided to tie this fly. I think it'll be a killer October Caddis pattern tied in the same colors as in the video. Time to do a little shopping...[/quote]
Chad, great pattern and I look forward to your ties
I guess I do have a question
ever see a size 18 October Caddis ?
Funny, I was about to confess to the same problem. I decided to tie up the snowshoe emerged Hans posted and picked up the hooks he recommended in the size he recommended - 14. After tying up about 6 flies I suddenly stopped and remember this was a size 18 swap. Need to get smaller hooks.
Chad, as an aside I tied that pattern for the Christmas face to face swap. It was difficult to get the length of the hair wing to a length where I thought it looked right (it kept being either too short or too long), but it does look good in person.
Okay, after relearning that October Caddis are slightly larger than a size 18 hook, I decided to tie the Barr Micro Emerger. I'll do size 24's IF I can get it to work. John Barr says you can, but I'm not John Barr. Gonna use BWO colors, or whatever. Can you even tell color on a fly that small?
purple phases are half way done, got real sick the past week and havent been focusing much on tying. i'll have em done by the end of this weekend.
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