Dec 27 2006
International Wet Fly Swap November 2006
Here are photos of all the flys submitted in this sway hosted by Keith Passant of the North Wilts Fly-Fishing Club in the UK. This was the first fly swap that I have participated in, and was a great experience. Kudo’s to Keith for putting it all together, and also to RB of our local club, NLFT.
Dec 16 2006
I’m participating in another fly swap, this time a Classic Wallywing Flies swap. Having never tied a Wallywing before (haven’t tied many dry flies at all to be honest), I figured it was an opportunity to learn something new.
The above link to the Wallywing Method is an excellent How-To – I was practicing last night, and tied my first 2 wallywings ever. I’m pretty pleased with how they turned out… now to do a real pattern… I think for this swap I’ll do a Light Cahill.
Here are my first 2 attempts at a Wallywing (no pattern intended here…. just used what was laying around at the moment.
Sep 28 2006
This evening I finished tying the flies for the first fly swap that I’ve ever participated in. The swap is an international one… should be interesting to see what comes back!
I tied up 25 flies… and put the new Peak vise to the test! The rotary is sure nice when laying in the body, and I also used it for the hackle as well as the head of these flies. I also found an excellent method of setting the vise up quickly for the hooks in a video I borrowed from the fly tying club (Rotary Tying Techniques with Al Beatty).
I also found the Peak material clip extremely useful, effectively keeping things out of my way while turning materials onto all of these flys. Definitely worth considering if you happen to be contemplating the purchase of a Peak Rotary vise.
