GFS2007 - The Official Announcement
 

rb608 typed:
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Sign up period: 12:00:01 a.m. January 1, 2007 through 11:59:59 p.m.
January 14, 2007.

I'll play.

Two weeks ought to be enough time for you to make
up your mind.

Yeah - I'll get back to you with a pattern. Maybe a Wooly Bugger
variation.
--
TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj/

GFS2007 - The Official Announcement
 

rb608 wrote:

Happy New Year wishes to one and all from the GFS2007 Swapmeister; and
herewith, the Official Announcement for the 2007 edition of the annual ROFF
Great Fly Swap.

Happy New Year to all as well, and condol ... er ... thanks for
taking up the mantle of Great Swapmeister.

I'm in with my variation of the Geehi (sp?) beetle. IIRC, it's a
New Zealand tie, but I found it worked pretty well in Canuckistan last
summer.


Chuck Vance

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joe - can i be enrolled as a "provisional" participant? right now, my
plan is either a miller's mutant mongo minnow or a miller's mutant cdc &
elk caddis. provided i can round up the necessary supplies...

i should know in a week or so if i can get the necessary stuff. i'm not
a tyer...but a wannabee.

jeff

to e-mail, the address above is actually dot net instead of dot com.
still have my old jlm3 at mindspring dot com address too...

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Daniel-San (Rot13) wrote:
"Wolfgang" wrote ...

What to tie.......?

While I'm no master at the Pass Lake (or much else frankly,) I've gotten
pretty good at tying it...howzabout another Kurdistani special? Something to
toss around on the Black Earth?

Well, the quintessential Curdistani mud bottom stream fly is gonna be
the Hex......but to anyone outside the area, this would likely be a
mere curiosity.....unless they feel a need to frighten the neighbors or
varmints or something. Besides, it would probably eat everything else
in the box and everybody would get a package of little bits of floss
and hook crumbs.

No, I think it's going to be a streamer this time. Pearlescent zonkers
are a passable immitation of trout fry as well as a number of other
small bait fish. Did some good with them this year. Yeah, that's what
it's gonna be.

Hey, Joe! Let me know if you don't see this.

Wolfgang

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"Wolfgang" wrote ...

Daniel-San (Rot13) wrote:
"Wolfgang" wrote ...

What to tie.......?

While I'm no master at the Pass Lake (or much else frankly,) I've gotten
pretty good at tying it...howzabout another Kurdistani special? Something
to
toss around on the Black Earth?

Well, the quintessential Curdistani

The horrors of my spelling... two demerits.

mud bottom stream fly is gonna be
the Hex......but to anyone outside the area, this would likely be a
mere curiosity.....unless they feel a need to frighten the neighbors or
varmints or something.

heh. There was a video from a while ago showing an extraordinarily large hex
hatch as it appeared on NOAA radar. IIRC, 'twas Curd-ish in origin. I
planned many things for last summer, and actually managed to follow through
on a few, but the plan to chase the hex thru Michigan fell thru. Such is
life, I guess.

little bits of floss and hook crumbs.

Please don't criticise my swap fly yet...at least wait until Joe sends them
out. :-)



No, I think it's going to be a streamer this time. Pearlescent zonkers
are a passable immitation of trout fry as well as a number of other
small bait fish. Did some good with them this year. Yeah, that's what
it's gonna be.

Sounds good.


Dan

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Conan The Librarian wrote:

I'm in with my variation of the Geehi (sp?) beetle. IIRC, it's a
New Zealand tie, but I found it worked pretty well in Canuckistan last
summer.

Not that anyone cares, but in checking I found that I was wrong
about the Geehi beetle. It's actually an Australian fly.


Chuck Vance (well at least I was in the correct hemisphere)

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"tony weall" wrote in message
joe i'll be tying a sloanes fur fly not sure about eddie yet

Thanks. I'll make the update.

Joe F.

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joe i'll be tying a sloanes fur fly not sure about eddie yet
tony
"rb608" wrote in message
news:CwSlh.1420$oW4.1164@trndny05...
Happy New Year wishes to one and all from the GFS2007 Swapmeister; and
herewith, the Official Announcement for the 2007 edition of the annual
ROFF Great Fly Swap. If you have no idea what this is about or how it
works, first check Stan Gula's page at http://gula.org/roffswaps/faq.html.
On with the details:



Sign up period: 12:00:01 a.m. January 1, 2007 through 11:59:59 p.m.
January 14, 2007. Two weeks ought to be enough time for you to make up
your mind.



Completion and submission date: February 20, 2007. All flies should be
in my hands by that date. That gives you 4 weeks to tie and another week
or so for shipping. Piece o' cake.



Number of Participants: While many swappers think nothing of tying scores
of flies, it does tend to become a bit tedious after the first couple
dozen. OTOH, I've found the swaps to be a great forced learning tool, and
after a couple dozen, mine start to look a lot better. So unless things
really get out of hand (arbitrarily, let's say 50 or more), there will be
no limit on the number of participants. If you sign up, be prepared to
tie several dozen if it goes that far.



Tags: Please securely attach a tag to each fly indicating your name and
the name of the fly. More than that is not necessary. Too large a tag
can make packaging and sorting somewhat of a problem in some instances
(see the Return Packaging comments below.) I'd also recommend avoiding
tied-on tags that can tangle together in transit. A simple piece of stiff
paper is usually sufficient; but be certain it's substantial enough to
withstand the trip both ways.



Return packaging: All fly sets submitted should include a return package
that is already addressed and containing the correct postage. Second to
sorting flies, addressing and affixing postage to packages is the most
time-consuming task for the swapmeister, IME. NB: One thing to keep in
mind - some folks send larger flies and/or larger tags than you. If you
tie up 40 brassies and send me a film container or small fly box, that's
not going to be big enough to send back 39 other flies the size of #2/0
Clousers with 3x5 index cards for tags. Back when VCR tapes were the
media du jour, those boxes were just about the perfect size.



Extra flies and extra postage: Please don't. It's a fine gesture and one
that has been appreciated in the past, but it isn't necessary. If you
wish to include and designate and extra fly or two for a good cause,
that's fine; but please, nothing extra for the swapmeister.



That's about it for now. I'll probably get around to posting all of this
on a temporary website http://mysite.verizon.net/gfs2007/; and I heartily
recommend a visit to Stan Gula's page for the FAQs
(http://gula.org/roffswaps/faq.html), especially regarding tags &
packaging.



Swapmeister's address:

Joe Fleischman

P.O. Box 171

Bel Air, MD 21014



I recommend the USPS, but if you are from outside the USA and plan to use
a courrier service (e.g. DHL) that will not deliver to a PO box, let me
know.



Swapmeister's email:



There's no prize for the first to sign up after midnight; and I probably
won't check until after a Bloody Mary & two Advil tomorrow, but at
12:00:01 a.m. the fun begins. Gentlemen/women, man your vises.



Have fun,

Joe Fleischman

GFS2007 Swapmeister