Jim, Great to hear you and your daughter are enjoying tying flies together. Thanks for sharing with us. I'm thinking about getting a couple of my granddaughters started this winter.
Gary Webb On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Jim Forshey <j...@seahorses.com> wrote: > Hi > > I would like to thank all of you for your e-mails and suggestions, most I > would have never thought of. > > To answer some of the questions; > > "Off the Hook Fly Shop" is a great shop with a good owner. I was hoping to > buy maybe 50 to 100 hooks at a time. When we get to tying we could go > thought that many hooks in a day. Some of our tying look good and some of > them look like Andy Warhol was giving us tying direction, but we have fun > and that is what matters. > > The backing you suggested I am sure going to look into. > > I am not looking for low quality hooks, I just want to buy some good > quality > hooks in a larger amount, hopefully making them cost a little less each. > > In regards to storing, sometimes we make a large amount, more than we would > even use, I like to store the extra away hoping when she get older she can > look back to what she did and what phase she was in, at one time she only > did purple. It currently brings back memories for me when I look at them (I > think our oldest are from 2007, she would have been 10 then). I use to use > a > box by Scientific Anglers, I use to find them on sale now and then for > around $10 to $20. Now they are running $39.95 plus 6 inserts at $15.95 > each, That is way to much for me. I am looking to make some storage boxes > using some 1 x 12 x 12 slide cases. > > I always look for the swaps, I do not know how I missed the hook-swap. I > also try and watch for the fly swap, but by the time I getting to reading > my > e-mails it always look like it is full. I am retiring on 11/30, hopefully > after that I can read my e-mails on a timely basis and can join in some > swaps. > > I never been to a Sportsman's warehouse, I will need to find one. > > Thank you for the suggestions of the caring boxes, a friend dropped by > about > 30 tin boxes the local store gave him, so I am set there for a while. > > Thank you for the help and great ideas. > > Jim Forshey > The Aquatic Book Shop > Placerville, California > www.Seahorses.com <http://www.seahorses.com/> > ´¯'·.¸¸..><((((º>.·´¯'·.¸¸.·´¯'·.¸><((((º>¸.·´¯'·.¸. ,. > ´¯'·.¸¸..><((((º>.·´¯'·.¸¸.·´¯'·.¸><((((º>¸.·´¯'·.¸. ,. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
