Egg fly swap

[Ghostface]

I was wondering since it is the season if anyone would be interested in an egg flyswap. We all know they produce this time of yar and most people fish one on their tandem nymph rigs. PM me or post a reply nd if enough people respond I'll host.

[Ghostface]

holy spelling errors

[NovaOne]

I'd love to participate in an egg fly swap. Please advise... Alan

[cold waters]

well what are we talking about here... I could be interested... how many flies??? and well the thing that has me hung up a little is that eggs are so easy to tie what are we hoping to see out of the swap?

[Ghostface]

I started thinking about that after I made the post. Anyone have any ideas? Maybe everyone can pick a particular color pattern or one with or without a veil and so on. Maybe this swap won't work?

[Triocd]

This was my first season fishing egg patterns and I've found them incredibly successful. 2 materials: thread and wool, no need to get complicated

[lowwall]

Ghost

Thanks for heading up a swap. You are the swap master ( Read the Sticky at the top of the fly tying page).

Here are some fly swap tips:

1)Come up with a number of tyers you want to deal with , 6 is a good number.

2)Set a Deadline for getting the flies in 1 month is about right.

3) List the tyers in the thread as they sign up.

4) PM the tyers your mailing adress, Indicate that they Send All Flies in a container to ship them back in and a Self addressed prepaid Return envelope.

You can count me in for the swap.

Mike

[Ghostface]

Looks like we have a swap on our hands. I'm looking to have 6 tiers total, myself and five others. Here are the people involved so far...

Ghostface
Lowwall

Lowwall, I'm going to do a scrambled egg pattern I kind of made up, let me know how you are going to do yours and every one else who signs up do the same so wwe can kind of figure this out.

[cold waters]

OK I will bite

I will do a Nuclear Egg



How many are we doing up? who is going to be post master...

[Ghostface]

I am the swap master, each tier will need to tie six flies total. Here are the participants so far...

Ghostface
lowwall
cold waters

So we are looking for 3 other tiers.

[cold waters]

Due Date.....

any particular size... i never trout fish around these parts....

[NovaOne]

Count me in, my first swap and eager to get started.
I can handle the egg pattern. Had lots of success with them this past season.
NovaOne

[Ghostface]

Here is the current lisy of tiers and the patterns they will be tying, if you can't think of a particular egg pattern to tie don't worry about it.

Ghostface----scrambled eggs
lowwall
cold waters---nuclear egg
NovaOne

So we are looking for 2 more tiers still, once we get all 6 I will set the due date and send everyone the address to send the flies to.

[Chuckmeister]

I'd be in to tie some sucker spawn meth flies!

[Chappy]

I will tie up some eggs "over easy".

Chappy.

[Ghostface]

Looks like we have our 6 tiers! Here they are as follows...

Ghostface----scrambled eggs
lowwall
cold waters---nuclear egg
NovaOne
Chuckmeister---sucker spawn meth flies
Chappy---eggs over easy

I will contact everyone with my information, as far as a due date I don't think it would take to long tie 6 egg flies so lets say December 8th and that will make 2 weeks, if anyone needs more time let me know and if they all show up before that date thats fine.

[cold waters]

I am going to toss it out there since these are such easy flies to tie... do we want to do a dozen? that way we all get two of each.. nothing worse than having just one of the right fly!!

[Ghostface]

Several members of the swap have asked about tying a dozen so everyone gets 2 each. If everyone would like to tie a dozen instead of six that's fine, don't worry if you have already sent in your six flies though, it's not a big deal.

[cold waters]

well just from what i have heard... there at least two of the six of us that would prefer to just stay at 6. so i guess that is what we will do

[cold waters]

mailed mine yesterday:-D

[Ghostface]

Glad to hear! I'm excited to see everyones creations.

[Ghostface]

I got the first flies in today! Hope fully the rest will come soon and we can start another swap!

[lowwall]

Mine are tied but i have trouble mailing them with my Work Schedule, Should be able to get them out Friday

[Ghostface]

not a problem lowwall

[Chuckmeister]

My ties are flying your way

[Ghostface]

Thanks chuckmeister, I can't wait to see what shows up.

[cold waters]

did we all make the 8th?? itching to see others flies:mrgreen:

[Ghostface]

I have received everyones flies and Iw ill be sending them out ASAP! Thanks to everyone who participated, I hope to host another swap soon!

[Chuckmeister]

I have received everyones flies and Iw ill be sending them out ASAP! Thanks to everyone who participated, I hope to host another swap soon!

Awesome! Getting hungry for some eggs:-D

Got them today! Pretty tasty looking egg patterns!!

[Ghostface]

anybody else get their eggs yet???

[cold waters]

no dice for me yet but I might have picked up my mail at the office before it showed up

[NovaOne]

Yup, got the eggs on Wednesday. Eager for spring already. Thanks for arranging the swap.

[cold waters]

got them!! thanks to everyone who participated

[sbeausol]

can someone post pics?

[Relheok]

And elaborate to us idiots on the specific usage of egg flies outside of the SR in NY? Thanks in advance!

[Chuckmeister]

Suckers and other fish spawn around here I think? Good question Relheok, I think it might be because they just look yummy to the fish?

[Ghostface]

I fish egg flies just like I would nymphs

[cold waters]

so can you get color glue gun sticks at a craft store?

[Chappy]

I ordered my colored glue stick from the Fly Shop about 4-5 years ago when they first came out....