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fishinXJ Diamond Member SSFFC Conservation Chair, KRFF Posts: 2416 Gender:	Re: soft hackle and traditional wet fly swap Reply #45 - Aug 26^th, 2011, 10:37am This swap is better than Christmas! Come on mail man. Great stuff and the timing is pefect shane
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sweatboy Platinum Member Posts: 635 Gender:	Re: soft hackle and traditional wet fly swap Reply #46 - Aug 26^th, 2011, 2:42pm I got my flies today. WOW! Very cool variety. Can't wait to fish them. --Mark
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clouserfreak Platinum Member Posts: 1004 Gender:	Re: soft hackle and traditional wet fly swap Reply #47 - Aug 28^th, 2011, 8:34pm Caught a smelt this weekend on Shane's Soft Hackle Streamer. First couple casts had short strikes, then got the smelt, a couple more short strikes and a cuda decides to snag the lead fly with the soft hackle in tow. Sorry about the pic quality. Peace, Rob
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Re: soft hackle and traditional wet fly swap
Reply #48 - Aug 29^th, 2011, 5:12am

Quote from clouserfreak on Aug 28^th, 2011, 8:34pm:

Caught a smelt this weekend on Shane's Soft Hackle Streamer. First couple casts had short strikes, then got the smelt, a couple more short strikes and a cuda decides to snag the lead fly with the soft hackle in tow. cry

http://i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa459/clouserfreak/dpharbor/flypics120-1.jpg

Sorry about the pic quality.

Peace, Rob

Hey they're good for something! Gartside ties them with a longer shank hook. Now we know why! The modern versions use circle hooks undecided

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Re: soft hackle and traditional wet fly swap
Reply #49 - Aug 29^th, 2011, 8:10am

Shane, I fished alongside Jack Gartside a number of times, as we had a number of favorite stretches of estuary and beach north of Boston in common. He was very good at creating flies with movement. He has a salty fly he called the Beastmaster which was like an overgrown softhackle. I have caught tons of fish on his Gurgler. I never tried his softies, as I've tried and liked other patterns and never got around to them. I was glad to see you tied those for the swap and can't wait to try them. They'll hopefully work on steelhead. I have no doubt I'll get takes; it's whether the hooks will hold up. Thanks for a wonderful pattern and keeping Jack's legacy going. He was a cool dude.

Charlie

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Cyberfish Platinum Member Life's about havin' FUN Posts: 680 Gender:	Re: soft hackle and traditional wet fly swap Reply #50 - Aug 29^th, 2011, 3:08pm Received my flies today and I must comment: In the past 30 years I've participated in well over two hundred fly swaps, the quality and variety of flies offered in this swap was right at the top. Thanks so much to all the participants and to Ryan for hosting! Cyberfish
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Re: soft hackle and traditional wet fly swap
Reply #51 - Aug 29^th, 2011, 5:02pm

Quote from Cyberfish on Aug 29^th, 2011, 3:08pm:

Received my flies today and I must comment:

In the past 30 years I've participated in well over two hundred fly swaps, the quality and variety of flies offered in this swap was right at the top.

Thanks so much to all the participants and to Ryan for hosting!

Cyberfish

I agree Bill,I've been doing these swaps for awhile now(not 30 years worth yet

) and this one was a very good one.Some of the tyers have been at it for only a short time but are producing some nice flies. Thanks to everyone for a good swap.
Ryan

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petundra Silver Member Posts: 239	Re: soft hackle and traditional wet fly swap Reply #52 - Aug 29^th, 2011, 9:29pm I just want to thank all for the great flies can't wait to use them. Looking forward to the next swap. Thanks for hosting Ryan Adam
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Re: soft hackle and traditional wet fly swap
Reply #53 - Sep 13^th, 2011, 11:49am

Greetings fellow swappers:
   Last week I decided to try something a little different.
   Packed in to a small lake west of Carson City and from a float tube utilized a fly from every participant in the soft hackle/wet fly swap.
   The pictures are of the first fish caught on each tiers fly.

Purple Spider - Adam (Petundra)

Peacock Partridge Pupa - Mark (Sweatboy)

Partridge and Orange - Rob (Western Coachman) This fly and Rob's Carey Special was part of a double hook-up.

Carey Special - Rob (clouserfreak) That's right, the two Rob's were the double.

Black Gnat Wet - Ryan (ryan)

Partridge and Peacock - Charlie (Bluefish)

Gartside Streamer - Shane (FishnXJ)

Tangerine Dream - Alan (HighFlyer)

Soft Hackle Hares Ear - Derek (D-Will) This fly produced the only Tiger Trout of the trip.

Always wanted to try and catch a fish from every fly of a swap.
And thanks to some fine tiers on this forum, another small item was scratched from my 'Bucket List'.

Cyberfish...see you guys at the Vous

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sweatboy Platinum Member Posts: 635 Gender:	Re: soft hackle and traditional wet fly swap Reply #54 - Sep 13^th, 2011, 11:55am Rats, my fly caught the smallest fish! I gotta say that's a really cool way to end the swap, fishing all the flies... --Mark
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clouserfreak Platinum Member Posts: 1004 Gender:	Re: soft hackle and traditional wet fly swap Reply #55 - Sep 13^th, 2011, 2:03pm Very cool!!!! I've recently noticed how many great swap flies that I have and intend to make a couple of boxes and fish those exclusively for a weekend. Not surprised to see Derek's fly catch the only Tiger. He is improving very quickly and tied some nice flies for this swap. Peace, Rob
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fishinXJ Diamond Member SSFFC Conservation Chair, KRFF Posts: 2416 Gender:	Re: soft hackle and traditional wet fly swap Reply #56 - Sep 13^th, 2011, 2:42pm That's super cool shane
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ryan Platinum Member Posts: 753	Re: soft hackle and traditional wet fly swap Reply #57 - Sep 13^th, 2011, 5:01pm Thanks for posting , Ryan
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bluefish Platinum Member Posts: 865	Re: soft hackle and traditional wet fly swap Reply #58 - Sep 13^th, 2011, 5:17pm That's really cool!!!!!! Thanks for that. Charlie
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Western Coachman Platinum Member My beautiful Lily May. May she always be happy. Posts: 1275 Gender:	Re: soft hackle and traditional wet fly swap Reply #59 - Sep 14^th, 2011, 1:53pm Thanks. I'm glad to see that you had fun.
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