Re: [VFB] Dry Fly Swap

['Rick Zieger' via VFB Mail]

Thanks for the info on the u tagged fly. Mine is the ugly one.
Rick 

  From: martinwestbeek 
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 Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 3:22 PM
 Subject: [VFB] Dry Fly Swap
   
Well the flies of the Dry Fly Swap landed in Holland. Great job, thanks to all 
those who participated and especially to Peggy!Mine was the untoetagged Grizzly 
Wulff.BestMart
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[VFB] Dry Fly Swap

[martinwestbeek]

Well the flies of the Dry Fly Swap landed in Holland. Great job, thanks to 
all those who participated and especially to Peggy!
Mine was the untoetagged Grizzly Wulff.
Best
Mart

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Re: [VFB] SWAPS both sent out today/tmme to tie

[ladyflytyer]

Taking a little time everyday makes your time even more valuable, most folks 
take to much time off between session and this creates 'rusty hands' takes a 
few days to get the muscles working.
Peggy


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 Original message 
From: Pete Gramp  
Date: 4/21/17  3:35 AM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com 
Subject: Re: [VFB] SWAPS both sent out today 

As busy as I have been at work with the 18hr shifts (I'm in biopharmaceuticals/ 
health sector), during the times I'm willing to fish (I don't fish when dark, 
personal preference and there's some safety-related reasons involved as well - 
sleep deprived and wading in the dark makes for bad situations), I have always 
found time to tie flies during my off-work time, albeit sometimes only one or a 
few flies at a time.  
Having started out in this great sport by tying at the age of 14, and not 
picking up a fly rod until my college years, I did things a little backwards 
from the traditional progression of things, and so I must confess that I get as 
much, if not more, pleasure out of the act of tying for the pure fact of tying 
for tying's sake, compared to the fishing act.  Don't get me wrong, I covet my 
days on the water, and love catch and releasing a good trout just like the next 
guy.  But for me, tying is my daily reprieve from the stresses of life, that 
can be done at any time of the day. 
There's three things I always make time for in life: firstly, spending time in 
the Word, with my God, secondly spending time with my wife and kids, and 
thirdly, tying at least one fly a day, in that order.  I think of tying flies 
as a sort of mental therapy, without which I would be a mess; it calms me 
unlike any other activity could, gives me clarity and focus in my world, and 
the way I go through materials, it costs about the same as a therapist would :)
Perhaps each of you share the same sentiment on tying, perhaps not and fishing 
itself is where it is at for you, but I am just glad that we can share our love 
of this fine sport together.
-Pete
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 7:31 AM, Peggy Brenner  wrote:
Everyone did a pretty good job.  One of the things about swaps is you will 
always get to busy at work to enjoy tying them.  I'm so glad I got to retire 
when we did, things have changed in the last 2 years so it's no longer 
enjoyable for those still in the forces.

Peggy

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 5:37 AM, Pete Gramp  wrote:
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  
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.

Re: [VFB] SWAPS both sent out today

[Pete Gramp]

As busy as I have been at work with the 18hr shifts (I'm in
biopharmaceuticals/ health sector), during the times I'm willing to fish (I
don't fish when dark, personal preference and there's some safety-related
reasons involved as well - sleep deprived and wading in the dark makes for
bad situations), I have always found time to tie flies during my off-work
time, albeit sometimes only one or a few flies at a time.

Having started out in this great sport by tying at the age of 14, and not
picking up a fly rod until my college years, I did things a little
backwards from the traditional progression of things, and so I must confess
that I get as much, if not more, pleasure out of the act of tying for the
pure fact of tying for tying's sake, compared to the fishing act.  Don't
get me wrong, I covet my days on the water, and love catch and releasing a
good trout just like the next guy.  But for me, tying is my daily reprieve
from the stresses of life, that can be done at any time of the day.

There's three things I always make time for in life: firstly, spending time
in the Word, with my God, secondly spending time with my wife and kids, and
thirdly, tying at least one fly a day, in that order.  I think of tying
flies as a sort of mental therapy, without which I would be a mess; it
calms me unlike any other activity could, gives me clarity and focus in my
world, and the way I go through materials, it costs about the same as a
therapist would :)

Perhaps each of you share the same sentiment on tying, perhaps not and
fishing itself is where it is at for you, but I am just glad that we can
share our love of this fine sport together.

-Pete

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 7:31 AM, Peggy Brenner 
wrote:

> Everyone did a pretty good job.  One of the things about swaps is you will
> always get to busy at work to enjoy tying them.  I'm so glad I got to
> retire when we did, things have changed in the last 2 years so it's no
> longer enjoyable for those still in the forces.
>
> Peggy
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 5:37 AM, Pete Gramp  wrote:
>
>> 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 > > 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 
>>> 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,