Imagine a newbie...or 20

On Oct 28, 12:00 pm, riverman wrote:
On Oct 28, 9:48 am, Dave LaCourse wrote:

Count me in for 20 flies, Myron. Please give us a list. I'll either
tie or buy.

Dave

Thanks, Dave! As soon as this nailbiter Sox-Rox game is over, I'll
post a list of flies. I think it would be so cool if I could tell the
kids that some fishermen from all over the world pitched in to tie up
some flies for them. Please don't feel obligated to buy any...we can
afford to buy them if we need to. Its that 'personally hand tied'
aspect that would be special for them, I think.

Meanwhile, how the hell did I end up with both posts above making it
to the NG?? I had posted one of them a day ago, and after several
hours it had not appeared so I tried rewriting it. Suddenly they BOTH
show up...I feel sort of like a grubber. Sorry about that.

--riverman

OK, a list of flies...

You know, instead of providing a specific list, why not do it this
way? I'm thinking that the plan is to get them started with stocking a
good all-around fly box: any river specific flies we'll get in NZ. So
if you can think of a 'must-have' fly for a beginner (think: trout
fishing), why not just post what you are tying and send it along.
There will be 17 kids and 2 teachers, so 18 or 20 of something would
go around.

Try to keep it limited to easy to tie flies, ones that are pretty
universal. The majority of these will inevitably end up in trees or
tangled in river weeds anyway. grin

If anyone feels so motivated, and sends along some, I'll send an
official 'thank you' on school letterhead, and maybe even get the kids
to sign it.

Thanks, Dave

--riverman

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:06:14 -0700, riverman
wrote:

On Oct 28, 12:00 pm, riverman wrote:
On Oct 28, 9:48 am, Dave LaCourse wrote:

Count me in for 20 flies, Myron. Please give us a list. I'll either
tie or buy.

Dave

Thanks, Dave! As soon as this nailbiter Sox-Rox game is over, I'll
post a list of flies. I think it would be so cool if I could tell the
kids that some fishermen from all over the world pitched in to tie up
some flies for them. Please don't feel obligated to buy any...we can
afford to buy them if we need to. Its that 'personally hand tied'
aspect that would be special for them, I think.

Meanwhile, how the hell did I end up with both posts above making it
to the NG?? I had posted one of them a day ago, and after several
hours it had not appeared so I tried rewriting it. Suddenly they BOTH
show up...I feel sort of like a grubber. Sorry about that.

--riverman

OK, a list of flies...

You know, instead of providing a specific list, why not do it this
way? I'm thinking that the plan is to get them started with stocking a
good all-around fly box: any river specific flies we'll get in NZ. So
if you can think of a 'must-have' fly for a beginner (think: trout
fishing), why not just post what you are tying and send it along.
There will be 17 kids and 2 teachers, so 18 or 20 of something would
go around.

Try to keep it limited to easy to tie flies, ones that are pretty
universal. The majority of these will inevitably end up in trees or
tangled in river weeds anyway. grin

If anyone feels so motivated, and sends along some, I'll send an
official 'thank you' on school letterhead, and maybe even get the kids
to sign it.

Thanks, Dave

--riverman


I think I could find few...any prefrences?