Folks: I mentioned that my computer “crashed” when the power blinked and I hadn’t been getting any emails from this group as somehow both my Google email addy and my Yahoo groups addy was reset to a G mail acct that I never use and thus, I wasn’t getting any emails from the group. Anyway, I am 56. (going on 18 LOL) And, not to call anybody here old, (just more experienced) but I think that outside of Reuven I’m the youngest one here LOL..
Those ages did get me to thinking about the future generations of fly tiers. If you go to any church in America, you’ll find that the avg age of the members is at least 60 and above. Which means membership is dying off slowly but surely and there are very few young folks to carry on. I am seeing this same thing in tying. Is it just that younger ppl don’t know (or care) what they are missing out on??? Or are less ppl fishing in general?? I know that is NOT the case here in Bama, as you can go to the river on any weekend especially and there will be hundreds, if not thousands of fishermen and wommen of all sizes. However, they are almost all in bass boats, casting crank baits, plastic worms etc using spinning reels for bass, not flyrods. I tell any I see (at the river or any lake, or watershed I am ever at) that they should consider fly fishing instead, and tell them that if they will give it a try, they’ll take their spinning reels, and $8-15 lures and throw them in the rivers. They think “oh, that fly fishing is only for the trout streams up North and out West etc”, and that’s when I whip out my fly box that contains all manner of BASS flies, as well as showing them my 8wt “bass fly rod and reel”. And, I do see a few of them later on with a flyrod. That’s because I tell them that they only have $60 to lose by trying it, cause Wal Mart sells a starter kit make by Shakespeare, which gives you a rod, reel, wt forward line, backing, leaders, tippets and several flies as well, so it’s not that expensive to at least give it a try. heck, they spend hundreds, if not thousands on their spinning outfits and over priced lures like I said above. Chuck -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
