Extra-terrestrial Fly Swap

[JimNovo]

@PatchezMDM
Morrish Hopper and Cinnamon Ant

 

[JimNovo]

@Broodstock
UFO Ant & Ben’s Hopper

 

[JimNovo]

@lars
Chubby Chernobyl & Dave’s Hopper

Blue ribbon for the largest flies in the swap!

 

[JimNovo]

@JG63
#12 Foam Inchworm & #12 Lurgid Bee

Gotta admit...I have never seen anything like this before!!!

 

[JimNovo]

@JeffK
Foam Beetle & Cinnamon Ant

What is that ant made of???

 

[JimNovo]

@JMP
#12 Sunken Beetle & #14 Tungsten Bead Ant

Never seen a beetle fly with a wing case like that!!

 

[JimNovo]

@Crumbs31
Black/Red Ant Acid & Bronze/Pink Ant Acid & Bionic Ant Variation

Blue ribbon for the use of orange!! Great flies!!!

 

[JimNovo]

@tsweitzer
#14 Brown Sprout – #18 Green Jassid

What is the wing on the Jassid made of?

 

[JimNovo]

@jeffroey
#16 Blue Bottle (House Fly) & #18 Drowned Ant

Is that red Epoxy?

 

[Broodstock]

@JeffK
Foam Beetle & Cinnamon Ant

What is that ant made of???

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that looks like shelf liner to me! I have made several ants and hellgrammites from this material.

 

[jeffroey]

@JimNovo Red 140 DN thread, clear epoxy coated in red nail polish. Epoxy eventually goes cloudy or white so I like coating it with nail polish.

Thx again for hosting Jim!

 

[Broodstock]

Great ties everyone! This is a great collection of land-dwelling insects! Looking forward to fishing these.
Thanks to @JimNovo for managing yet another excellent swap.

 

[lars]

nice work by all!!
much thanks to Jim for all the work making it happen.

 

[JG63]

@JG63
#12 Foam Inchworm & #12 Lurgid Bee

Gotta admit...I have never seen anything like this before!!!

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The fish have …. I used to use cork cylinders (Troutbert wrote a small bit about them in his book for the Clark’s Creek Dauphin County review) - I use a hard plastic foam now as it is more durable AND translucent too - they work for trout, panfish, and bass -thanks for hosting Jim! Great bugs by everyone!

 

[JimNovo]

And if anyone has a swap theme they would like to have happen, please send me a PM.

I have a bass one in mind, but I'm open to anything that gets more of you tying!!

 

[5footfenwick]

Just looking over the flies! They are awesome! Great ties! Thanks to everybody who tied. Thanks for putting in the effort and time Jim. Can’t wait to wet a line with some of these.

 

[JMP]

@JMP
#12 Sunken Beetle & #14 Tungsten Bead Ant

Never seen a beetle fly with a wing case like that!!

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@JMP
#12 Sunken Beetle & #14 Tungsten Bead Ant

Never seen a beetle fly with a wing case like that!!

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This beetle represents a drowned June bug.

 

[JG63]

What a fantastic - one of a kind - collection! I’m gonna fish them all - they even have their own dedicated boxes - THANKS ALL - for a job well done 😎👍🏼

 

[JeffP]

That's awesome that you guys do this! I need to get back into tying!