ROFF Fly Swaps

The "Gula Ghost" tied by Hans van der Stroom.

This is the home page for the ROFF Fly Swaps. If you don't know, ROFF is the rec.outdoors.fishing.fly newsgroup on USENET. If you don't know or care what USENET is, you can also read ROFF on the Google Groups archive. More than 90 people have participated in one of our swaps since the first in 2000 run by Frank Church. Frank Church's winter swap has become an annual event as has Joe Fleischman's Dog Days swap in the summer.

The Great 2006 Fly Swap is done. There are no swaps currently running.

To see the flies, patterns and names of previous swappers, click on the links below. On the swap pages, you can click on the thumbnail picture to get a detail shot, and if the tyer provided a recipe, you can click the pattern name to get to a recipe page.

Note: I would be happy to post pictures of any swap run on ROFF or ROFFT. Just e-mail me the pictures, a description and recipe and I'll get it posted ASAP.

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Name Swapmeister Description
FS2000 Frank Church The First ROFF Swap. An open swap for any and all tyers. Pictures courtesy Paul Goodwin.

PNW2000 Padishar Creel Chris (Padishar) Fanning started this one late in 2000 as a Pacific Northwest steelhead fly swap. It was openned up to general tyers to fill out the numbers. Chris and his wife sent the tyers their flies in time for Christmas nicely wrapped as a present, along with a fly box. Thanks! Photos by Paul Goodwin.

FS2001 Frank Church The second Annual Great ROFF Swap. Open to all tyers, this swap attracted 40 tyers. 36 tyers made the deadline of March 7. Photos by Paul Goodwin.

DD2001 Joe Fleischman Favorite summer patterns. Joe wanted to give us something to during our summer vacation. Photos by Paul Goodwin.

FS2002 Frank Church The Third Annual ROFF Fly Swap. 41 people signed up! Everything from tiny midges to enormous tube streamers. Photos by Paul Goodwin.

DD2002 Joe Fleischman The second Annual Dog Days Fly Swap held in July, 2002. These are favorite hot weather patterms. 18 tyers participated. Photos by Stan Gula.

NYMPH02 Tim Apple and Stan Gula The 2002 Fall Nymph swap, started by Tim and completed by Stan. 17 Tyers from 7 countries participated. Photos by Roger Öhlund.

FS2003 Frank Church 51 signed up, 46 delivered. Frank must be nuts. Preliminary photos have been posted.

NS2003 Joe Fleischman The non-swap swap. Joe Fleischman suggested that we tie flies for Tim Soule, a middle school teacher in Maine who teaches flyfishing to his students. 28 people tied a dozen (or more) flies for this non-swap. Dave LaCourse tied some Brassies, but didn't send a picture. At least one non-tyer donated some purchased flies. Photos by Joe.

BG2003 Stan Gula Favorite bluegill flies. No fancy trout ties here!

DD2003 Tim Johnson The Dog Days Swap returns, hosted by Tim. 18 Favorite summer patterms by 17 tyers. Photos by Tim.

FS2004 Joe Fleishman The Great Fly Swap for 2004. 37 tyers took part.

GS2004 Stan Variations on Gurglers

FS2005 Frank Church The annual Great Fly Swap. 20 tyers delivered. This might be Frank Church's last time as host - thanks, and we'll miss you big guy. Photos by Tim Johnson, lovingly retouched by Stan.

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Name	Swapmeister	Description
FS2000	Frank Church	The First ROFF Swap. An open swap for any and all tyers. Pictures courtesy Paul Goodwin.
PNW2000	Padishar Creel	Chris (Padishar) Fanning started this one late in 2000 as a Pacific Northwest steelhead fly swap. It was openned up to general tyers to fill out the numbers. Chris and his wife sent the tyers their flies in time for Christmas nicely wrapped as a present, along with a fly box. Thanks! Photos by Paul Goodwin.
FS2001	Frank Church	The second Annual Great ROFF Swap. Open to all tyers, this swap attracted 40 tyers. 36 tyers made the deadline of March 7. Photos by Paul Goodwin.
DD2001	Joe Fleischman	Favorite summer patterns. Joe wanted to give us something to during our summer vacation. Photos by Paul Goodwin.
FS2002	Frank Church	The Third Annual ROFF Fly Swap. 41 people signed up! Everything from tiny midges to enormous tube streamers. Photos by Paul Goodwin.
DD2002	Joe Fleischman	The second Annual Dog Days Fly Swap held in July, 2002. These are favorite hot weather patterms. 18 tyers participated. Photos by Stan Gula.
NYMPH02	Tim Apple and Stan Gula	The 2002 Fall Nymph swap, started by Tim and completed by Stan. 17 Tyers from 7 countries participated. Photos by Roger Öhlund.
FS2003	Frank Church	51 signed up, 46 delivered. Frank must be nuts. Preliminary photos have been posted.
NS2003	Joe Fleischman	The non-swap swap. Joe Fleischman suggested that we tie flies for Tim Soule, a middle school teacher in Maine who teaches flyfishing to his students. 28 people tied a dozen (or more) flies for this non-swap. Dave LaCourse tied some Brassies, but didn't send a picture. At least one non-tyer donated some purchased flies. Photos by Joe.
BG2003	Stan Gula	Favorite bluegill flies. No fancy trout ties here!
DD2003	Tim Johnson	The Dog Days Swap returns, hosted by Tim. 18 Favorite summer patterms by 17 tyers. Photos by Tim.
FS2004	Joe Fleishman	The Great Fly Swap for 2004. 37 tyers took part.
GS2004	Stan	Variations on Gurglers
FS2005	Frank Church	The annual Great Fly Swap. 20 tyers delivered. This might be Frank Church's last time as host - thanks, and we'll miss you big guy. Photos by Tim Johnson, lovingly retouched by Stan.