Swap Results for I. B. F. 2005

[DNicolson]

I have been looking in old info for my web-site going back to 2005, and I found this:-

http://donaldnicolson.webplus.net/page521.html

It may be of interest, some of our members had swaps in this.

[willowhead]

VERY Cool Donald.....thankx for posting that. Some really nice flies.....yours for one. i gotta get Roy over here for Sowbug. i got him to come and do the Clearwater Junction in Roscoe twice, and we tyed together in Ireland last year. He's a great guy. i remember "biot midge".....whatever happened to him?

[DNicolson]

I don't know for sure about that swap, a lot has happenned since then, I remember biotmidge as well.
Ah well, time flies.

[William Anderson]

Donald, This is very cool, but I'll have to mention that the IBF was formed around Jan of 2006. You were in the first swap (Feb 2006), myself, Jim S, Mark L, Aaron L, Hans W, Joe Fox, and some great sports who were part of what turned out to be a significant number of conversations. Those heated conversations regarding the definitions of soft-hackles were inspiring to me, obviously. Roy was certainly part of those conversations, and no doubt his Flymph swap was the result of them. I'm not even sure why I felt compelled to write a correction, it's of little consequence, only for accuracy sake, I guess. I love this post though.

I actually just wrote to Jim and mentioned what an interesting phenomenon those conversations turned out to be. They certainly changed/directed my pursuit of this sport in a major way.

w

[DNicolson]

I think you may be right William, I can't remember exactly, a lot of swap info I had, has
disappeared into another dimension and I was guessing a bit. It may have been an FAOL swap.

[willowhead]

Biot midge was an old faol member........as far back as '99, far as i remember.

[DUBBN]

I entered my Muskrat flymph in that swap. I still have the pic on my PhotoBucket page. I have been looking at the pics on the first page of the swap, and I was telling myself i have seen those flys before. I didnt think of looking at the second page. When I did, low and behold there was my little Muskrat. Deja vu!

[willowhead]

"Makes my day" to see you posting again Wayne. GO! Broncos!!

[DUBBN]

Thanks Mark.

[willowhead]

.....bummer, looks like Tebow mania is headed for the showers.......... ...........was a fun ride while it lasted........but reality has reared it's ugly head and now the kids can stop gettin' thrown outta school.