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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From: Pete Gramp <[email protected]>
Date: 4/21/17 3:35 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: [email protected]
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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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,
Allan Fish <[email protected]>
wrote:
On 4/13/17 10:23 PM, Phxflytyer wrote:
I ignored your fly if that will make you feel
better?
Thank you!
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