Bill-
Since I'm apparently the first one to cruise by your
post, I'll take the liberty of answering. Just so you
know, I've never hosted a swap but have participated
in a few. Basically, here's how they work.
1. Someone will announce a swap and usually name a
theme of some kind. May be a general type of fly such
as terrestrials or streamers or salmon/steelhead. Or
it might be using a particular material such as deer
hair as the main material. Or size of fly, no flies
larger than a size 18. Or variations on one patterns
such as Adams patterns. The list of possible themes is
probably endless.
2. The person who announced the swap (known as the
swapmeister or host) will set a limit on the number of
tiers. Most swaps are 12-20, but there have been swaps
with well over a hundred tiers. The host will also set
a time limit for signing up and for when the flies are
due.
3. People who want to participate will let the host
know and tell the host what they're tying. Normally
the host won't allow duplicates or flies that are
really simple to tie, not fair to others who tie more
complicated patterns. Each person will tie as many
flies as there are participants plus one or two extra
for the host.
4. Flies are mailed to the host in a suitable
crushproof container along with sufficient postage for
flies to be returned to the sender. Most hosts require
that the flies be tagged with the name of the tyer,
name of the fly and the tyer's email. They may also
ask that a recipe for the pattern be sent along. Some
hosts put pix of the flies along with the tyer's name
and recipe on a website, some don't. Just depends.
5. The host sorts the flies making sure each person
gets one from each of the other tyers and mails them
out.
That's it. Good clean fun and a chance to get some
nice flies from all over the world.
BTW, the VFB website also has an explanation of how
the swaps work. Individual hosts may introduce some
variations, but this is the basic idea.
-John
Oregon
--- Bill Kenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I have a question. How do these swaps work? For
> those who are just
> getting into fly fishing, we have nothing to offer,
> but would appreciate the
> opportunity to learn from those of you who have been
> doing this a while.
> Are the flies swapped put up on a site somewhere for
> use newbies to see?
>
> thanks,
> Bill
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 6:24 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [VFB] Great lakes Salmon and Steelhead
> swap
> >
> >
> > Has everyone received their flies? I haven't seen
> mine yet. Are
> > they lost?
> > Dick
> >
>
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