Monday, January 2, 2012

Carp Fly Swap - Be There or Be Square

I would like to propose the first annual Fly-Carpin carp fly swap.  Details are admittedly vague as of now, but the gist of it would be that participants would mail 10 copies of their favorite carp fly to me with a small shipping fee and a materials list and maybe even tying directions and description on how they fish it.  I would sort the flies, compile materials lists / directions and then each participant would get an assortment of 10 flies back in the mail.
 
If it looks like I have a chance of getting at decent turn-out I will refine the details and publicize it a little further.  Anybody in? 

27 comments:

  1. OK, we got Chris Galvin (an Urban South Platte carp guide if you ever need one), Lonny Garris and Matt Pike in from facebook. Maybe Eric Ridenour from Big EZ world if he grows some balls. Hope he doesnt catch that because pretty sure he could break me like a twig!

    Matt Pike added this link of a sweet lookin fly:
    http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr50/mattp77/flies/caprcrab2.jpg

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  2. See, low on details. Anybody interested also email me at mctage at yahoo dot com at some point.

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  3. I'm in. Once the particulars are known I'd be glad to participate.

    Gregg

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  4. I might be down to play carp fly swap....

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  5. Wait a minute...Mctage (of primordial carp fame) and Pat FREAKING Cohen are in? Done deal, count me in, but for the record, I fish much better than I tie.

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  6. Well John, none of us is Pat Freaking Cohen! Besides, your flies have probably caught more and bigger carp than just about anybody in the country!

    I think that is enough to say we can make it happen (Somes good mores better so keep it coming though!). I will get more details out there this week and put the word out in other ways. See if we can't get something cool going.

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  7. Ok, we got Bill De Brooklyn from CAG and probably Ty Clifton (Another guide-level carper from these parts)

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  8. Will Rice from the Drake is in as well.

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  9. Really excited about this, my first fly swap. Thanks for putting this together.

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  10. Oh my gosh, what have I got myself into. However, I'm still in.

    Gregg

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  11. John - I hope so. I was seriously bummed that it fizzled on CAG last year.
    Lonny - No problem, should be fun.
    Austin - In.
    Gregg - Dont stress, with this many people we are going to do this so that we each tie a set of 10 of a single pattern and I will randomly sort them. We wont all get the same package, but that way we arent all chained to a vice for a week tying 20 plus flies.

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  12. John Jensen from the blog Currents is in and Justin from fishing and thinking in Minnesota is thinking about dropping the legion of doom on our sorry butts.

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  13. This is turning out to be quite the swap...very exciting....

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  14. I want in on this bud... any tips on places to get some materials like yall use? My local shop closed before nonmember..

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  15. I'm hesitant to throw my name into this hat. This is some pretty fast company. But what the heck. I'll join if you still need some folks.

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  16. Eric, J Stockard is an online company I have used a time or two and been satisfied with. Let me get my head above water in the next couple of days and I will send you a materials list to order and a video to watch for a cool fly not too dissimilar to the one you posted yesterday.

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  17. Ty - Two of the three carp addicts I know of named Ty are now in. Who knew that back in the day all kids named Ty would be such non-conformists.

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  18. is there still space in this swap? IF so I would be in for tying up ten of Mike Schmidt's foxee bastards for the swap
    email me at ridderbos3@att.net if there is still room

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  19. Just missing one email address from those who have already shown interest - I will get out an email and post with details Wed or Thur.

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  20. Ridderbos - In. If it uses fox furr and has a name like foxee bastard I love it sight unseen.

    Oh boy did I set myself up on this one. Starting to pucker, but man is this shaping up to be fun :)

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  21. trev gotta link to his site?

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  22. Eric - Yeah, I got ahold of him last night. We are set. The details almost finished being written up.

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