Re: [VFB] Stonefly arrival in Sweden...

[mark romero]

Cool story Nick. I "know" the feelin'. I'm often kinda grumpy when i wake 
up...at least if i haven't been able to get the amount of sleep i wanted. 
But some swap flies in the mail would cure that in no time flat, LOL. Funny 
thing is, i hardly ever seem to fish with swap flies. Every now and again i 
do, but usually they just go in the gallery, or the truck somewhere. I have 
this one bag in the truck with a dozen or so fly boxes in it.......and i 
hardly ever even open those boxes. Except to put more flies in of course, 
lol. One shelf in the gallery has maybe 25 fly boxes on it, full of 
allllllllll kinds of flies from swaps, "collections" (nothing but Green 
Drakes and Coffin Flies for instance), that i've just collected from all 
over the place, and flies my wife brings home from other countries (usually 
given to her by the other countires teamates), where she attends the 
Championships. I remember just back 6/7 years ago before i "really" started 
to collect flies.......and i never thought i would get sooooo into it. 
Well.........enjoy your flies.


From: "Richard Zieger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [VFB] Stonefly arrival in Sweden...
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 08:17:05 -0500
MeddelandeNow you can see that mine was uglier than yours.
Rick
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Niclas Runarsson
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 7:44 AM
  Subject: [VFB] Stonefly arrival in Sweden...
  I fell asleep around 5:30 this morning. Sometimes it's just impossible. 
I twist and turn for hours and when I finally do it, it's not because I'm 
tired but because I'm totally exhausted. This is another of those evil 
genetic defects that my mom passed on.
  Teresa woke me up with a little kiss at around 11:00...

  -"Mmmhhghnnnn..."
  -"You've got a package today."
  -"Hggnnwwwfff..."
  -"It feels like the fly-box you sent with your flies."
  -"HUH!!!!!"
  ... and in a split of a second, I turned from a state of half coma to 
clear awake. It was like switching on a light bulb.

  I must say I wasn't that surprised. When looking at my fly with these 
"new" eyes, I didn't think it look that bad... and the fact that I've 
stripped down at least 25, looking exactly the same, made me feel quite 
stupid. This is going to be one of those things I will take with me and 
look back at with a laugh. But looking at the others, I also saw who the 
true experts were. AMAZING flies everyone. These are going straight up on 
the shelf in the livingroom.

  OK, so I said that I thought the swap, at the time, was a true 
nightmare.
  Having said that, I'm now obligated to add that: IT WAS WORTH BOTH THAT 
AND MORE!!!

  /Nick
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