[VFB] Re: True Stories

2009-01-25 Thread boosbooksandbargains
Jeff: Thanks a million.. I'll print this out for safe keeping, Chuck - Original Message - From: "Jeff Frye" To: Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 5:23 PM Subject: [VFB] Re: True Stories > > Anytime, Chuck. I have unlimited long distance on both my cell and home

[VFB] Re: True Stories

2009-01-25 Thread Jeff Frye
net > Subject: [VFB] Re: True Stories > To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009, 4:10 PM > Jeff: Thanks a lot.. I will help get my wife well, and > I'll contact you > about this.. I really want to do it, and will at least try > as soon as I get > her

[VFB] Re: True Stories

2009-01-25 Thread boosbooksandbargains
From: boosbooksandbarga...@earthlink.net Subject: [VFB] Re: True Stories To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009, 8:35 AM Tony: That's a great story.. Although I have never heard of fly tying classes at a D

[VFB] Re: True Stories

2009-01-25 Thread boosbooksandbargains
Tony: Great idea. You also gave me another idea. I'll also call all the local Service Clubs, ie VFW, AmVets,DAV, etc etc.. Chuck - Original Message - From: Anthony Spezio To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 10:49 AM Subject: [VFB] Re: True St

[VFB] Re: True Stories

2009-01-25 Thread boosbooksandbargains
Jeff: Thanks a lot.. I will help get my wife well, and I'll contact you about this.. I really want to do it, and will at least try as soon as I get her well, Chuck - Original Message - From: "Jeff Frye" To: Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 10:04 AM Subject: [VFB] R

[VFB] Re: True Stories

2009-01-25 Thread boosbooksandbargains
Sunday, January 25, 2009 9:47 AM Subject: [VFB] Re: True Stories Chuck - I think it's a chicken and the egg question. Either might work. The only way to know is to pick one approach and give it a try. -- Joe Fusco, Sr. Member of The Missouri Trout Fishermen's Associ

[VFB] Re: True Stories

2009-01-25 Thread Anthony Spezio
ups.com Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 8:15 AM Subject: [VFB] Re: True Stories OK here is one. I was doing beginner fly tying classes at a Dept Store in N.J.  This was a 6 week course. I had a husband and wife team sign up along with 10 other stud

[VFB] Re: True Stories

2009-01-25 Thread Anthony Spezio
I first talked to our club about starting a show, they were not for it, now see what the Sowbug has turned into. Just do it. Arkansas Tony --- On Sun, 1/25/09, boosbooksandbarga...@earthlink.net wrote: From: boosbooksandbarga...@earthlink.net Subject: [VFB] Re: True Stories To: vfb-mail

[VFB] Re: True Stories

2009-01-25 Thread Jeff Frye
barga...@earthlink.net wrote: > From: boosbooksandbarga...@earthlink.net > Subject: [VFB] Re: True Stories > To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009, 8:41 AM > Tony: I wonder if around here, since there are PLENTY of > places like Volunteer Fire Dept's and Ci

[VFB] Re: True Stories

2009-01-25 Thread Joseph Fusco, Sr.
ony Spezio > *To:* vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > *Sent:* Sunday, January 25, 2009 8:15 AM > *Subject:* [VFB] Re: True Stories > >OK here is one. > I was doing beginner fly tying classes at a Dept Store in N.J. > This was a 6 week course. I had a husband and wife team sign

[VFB] Re: True Stories

2009-01-25 Thread boosbooksandbargains
e, cause the huge civic center is right there at the lake..Chuck - Original Message - From: Anthony Spezio To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 8:15 AM Subject: [VFB] Re: True Stories OK here is one. I was doing beginner fly tying class

[VFB] Re: True Stories

2009-01-25 Thread boosbooksandbargains
Tony: That's a great story.. Although I have never heard of fly tying classes at a Dept store LOL, Chuck - Original Message - From: Anthony Spezio To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 8:15 AM Subject: [VFB] Re: True Stories OK here i

[VFB] Re: True Stories

2009-01-25 Thread Anthony Spezio
OK here is one. I was doing beginner fly tying classes at a Dept Store in N.J.  This was a 6 week course. I had a husband and wife team sign up along with 10 other students. I started out with the basics pointing out the materials and tools and how they are used. This gentleman just sat quiet. As

[VFB] Re: True Stories

2009-01-16 Thread Jeff Frye
y > > --- On Fri, 1/16/09, Jeff Frye > wrote: > From: Jeff Frye > Subject: [VFB] Re: True Stories > To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 11:20 AM > > I saw Mike with Jack Dennis in Wichita for a weekend > program about 6-7 years > ago. Th

[VFB] Re: True Stories

2009-01-16 Thread Anthony Spezio
Jack sent me a copy of that Video, asked that I do not copy it. If any would like to see it,I can set it up in one of the rooms at the Sowbug for a single viewing. Arkansas Tony --- On Fri, 1/16/09, Jeff Frye wrote: From: Jeff Frye Subject: [VFB] Re: True Stories To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com

[VFB] Re: True Stories

2009-01-16 Thread Jeff Frye
one night. --- On Fri, 1/16/09, Wes Wada wrote: > From: Wes Wada > Subject: [VFB] Re: True Stories > To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 11:05 AM > To round out the Mike Lawson story... > > Mike has a section in his Spring Creek presentat

[VFB] Re: True Stories

2009-01-16 Thread Jeff Frye
Wes, I seriously thought that Jimmy was joking. Maybe not. --- On Fri, 1/16/09, Wes Wada wrote: > From: Wes Wada > Subject: [VFB] Re: True Stories > To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 10:29 AM > Just wanted to pop in and resurrect this squashed,

[VFB] Re: True Stories

2009-01-16 Thread Wes Wada
To round out the Mike Lawson story... Mike has a section in his Spring Creek presentation (to support his last book effort), in which he describes his entry of a no-hackle dun in the Jackson Hole One-Fly contest. Entrants to this high-profile annual event are only allowed to use one fly, period.

[VFB] Re: True Stories

2009-01-16 Thread Wes Wada
Just wanted to pop in and resurrect this squashed, bloody thread to make a comment. First of all, no disrespect to Jimmy, who I admire greatly as a community contributor, a family man, and a tribute to Texas. That said, I think Jimmy is way off-base with his reply. I need to respond to that in

[VFB] Re: True Stories

2009-01-12 Thread Allan Fish
Well, I'll give it a start, At the fly show in Indianapolis on Saturday ("Indiana On The Fly"), there were a couple of things. I had a young boy scout come up and sit down with me at the beginners tying table. He tied a very nice wooly bugger. A fellow watching him came up and thanked me.

[VFB] Re: True Stories

2009-01-12 Thread Jimmy D. Moore
Ya'll better watch Wes, or we will be co-authors of his fly fishing Anthology. :-P JIMMY D Wes Wada wrote: >Hello, VFB. > > >I'd like to start a thread about something of interest to me, and >hopefully, to some of you. > >What stories do you have, that happened, when you were at a fly tying ev