Sow bug round up dress up

hhawkins

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Like I said, I wore my shirt to the Sow Bug Round-up in Mt. Home, Arkansas Saturday. I wanted to take my camera and take pics of the convention, but was afraid it would be so crowded, I wouldn't have gotten good pics, not including the fear of me dropping my camera. Its a Nikon, you know the one where I can reach out and touch somebody from far away, yep one of those cameras :P Anyway, got there and People were everywhere. Over 100 fly tyers, each one tying something different. Many booths to shop from to get materials, boxes, work stations, tools, watch and learn new items. Of course at this point I had wished I brought my camera along. You could sit down and watch tyers tye a fly and many of them would give you the tye after they were done tying it. I was a bandit, made out with 4 tyes. OH...this one guy from Texas was tying with horse hair. The hair is from the mane, well the roach clip part of the mane. That is the piece of mane just behind the ears where an halter band or bridle band sets. Many riders clip off that part of the mane so it doesn't get tangled around the band, never had that problem myself. How cool was that. Now I was really kicking myself for not bring the camera. Had many people ask about the shirt and I think I was a pretty good rep for Jigcraft :D Told people what it was and told them to drop a line or 2. :icon14: In all, it was a good day.

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toadfrog

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Wish I could have been there .I'd of had a blast . Never really thought of tying with horse hair before .All is far in love and tying flies .
 

StumpHunter

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That show would have been a good one to see all the tying going on. It's great to hear you enjoyed your time spent there. It would have been hard not to buy bags of new tying materials.:)
I had a T.Walker (years ago)that was right at 16 hands, I use to keep her mane cut out where the bridle went. The hair would make an interesting material to tie with. Seems like I seen someone tie a fly with horse tail hair once.
Thanks for sharing your day at the show with us. Good pic :)
 

jiggerjohn

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Nice report ,Heather -an exciting event,I'm sure! The mention of horsehair brings back fond memories - in early trips to the NY section of the St. Lawrence River, I always saw a popular local jig tied from long horse tail hair (the river is surrounded by farm area, lots of horses!), which was rugged and able to avoid destruction from the many sharp toothed northern pike which would viciously attack these eel -actioned jigs! I still have a few of these 6-8" jigs,they last forever!
 

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Extremely jealous. We never get anything like that around here. Congrats.
Pretty shirt.

Considered that may be out of line to some.

Adam
 

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I'm hoping some of the guys on the fly boards I'm on post some pics which they usually do then I can put some links up. Sent a few emails asking that they do.
 
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