I read every post and am on line several times per day.
Am being a good boy and getting all my treatments & minding my
Dr's. I do feel good.
I do not post much but I do enjoy the list.
We might get a few flakes of the white stuff tonight.
What little we got over Thanksgiving all melted off so the ground at
my elevation is bare. Do have a goodly amount at elevations.
Wishing everyone a safe December.
I'm keeping busy building a few Quads and am enjoying the heck out
of my time spent daily in the shop. I manage a few flies now and then.
My tying set up is right here in the front room and seldom gets straightened
out. I do not mind the mess and as there is no Mrs to complain and the dog
does not mind either. I manage to keep a hook in one of the two vises at
all times just in case I get the urge to create something.
Denny
On 12/2/2013 6:57 PM, Don Ordes wrote:
Allan,
I’m not “little” yet by a long cry, but I don’t think Buggs would
recognize me right off. Did ya catch any gators on the fly? Should’a
asked me for my ‘gator-fly’. I would have sent it.
VFB List:
A big howdy to all those remaining on the list. How many are IOFF’ers?
My thoughts are with all that replied who are going through physical
trials. As some have mentioned, physical trials are compounded when
they are accompanied by tragic losses of ones close to us.
This summer was a bust for us because we lost a dear friend- my wife’s
best friend for 15 years, who with her husband were our camping
buddies. She was a Type-1 diabetic and at 55 all of a sudden she was
gone from a heart attack. I made it to the river once when I was
feeling up to it and got blown away by the wind, so fishing never
really happened. Maybe next summer.
I’d like to meister the ‘blizzard swap’, but I ‘m thinking work may be
taking me to North Dakota soon and that means just surviving the
winter. I’m glad it wasn’t this week, as they are expecting temps of
-50°F down to -70°F possibly (real, not wind chill). I’ve been in
-62°F (1978 Jackson Hole- real temp.)- that was cold enough for me.
(FYI- Propane stops boiling at –43.6°F, so you could cut the top off a
propane cylinder and look inside and see the propane liquid @ -44°F.)
That’s cold.
So if someone wants to step up and meister the swap, I’ll sign up with
ice-dub, seal, and Yeti-hair caddis-fly nymphs. Hopefully there’s no
more that 12 as that is a nice size swap.
DonO
*From:* Allan Fish <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Sunday, December 01, 2013 2:21 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [VFB] Roll call and winter fly-swap interest??
Used-to-be-big-but-is-now-little DonO suggested:
Anyone interested in *fly swaps* now that winter is here? Something
with ice-dubbing? or polar bear?
I LIKE THAT! Rope dubbed body with polar bear underfur, tailed with a
pair of bald eagle biots and soft-hackled with a breast feather from a
spotted owl.
Count me in!!!
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