Mardi-Gras Bead Fly Swap Fat Tuesday 2006 Well, this is the last day of parades and revelry. This is your last chance to get beads tossed from floats, AND it is an opportunity for you to sign up for this swap!!!
This swap may be the answer to your problem, what do I do with the beads now! I will be tying two patterns for the swap. One is my mardi-paca. I started tying this last spring. It has become a go-to fly for me especially when fishing new stillwaters. The snake pattern that I am also tying uses Bernat Disco yarn which I have been having great fishing success with for smallmouths. Both of these patterns of course use Mardi-Gras beads For a thought provoking article on this yearÂ’s Mardi Gras celebration throughout the area devastated by hurricane Katrina I recommend that you read the following article from the Shreveport Times. http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20060227/LIVING/602250308/1004 Perhaps some of you in this swap who live in the swath of Katrina would like to post your experiences/reflections. A cousin of mine recently returned from the area as part of a volunteer crew to assist with repair of some storm damaged homes. Much more needs to be done and we can all help. All fly patterns for this swap must use one or more Mardi-Gras beads. I think we will all enjoy this one Maximum number of tyers 14. Due date Send flies with toe tags and return postage to me so that they arrive on or before May 21. For those of you who do not know me: here is a web page from a swap that I hosted a couple of years ago, http://edengelman.com/Chuck/swap.html an article I wrote that is on the FAOL site, http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/tyingtips/part318.html and my home page: http://edengelman.com Ed Engelman Swap Members 1. Ed Engelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mardi- paca 2. Ed Engelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eyelash snake 3. Richard Zieger [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4. Jeff Row [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Mike Bernardoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hard Hackle Worm 6. Matt Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. Dan Harriman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8. Buster Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9. ???
