I think the You Tube videos is a great idea. A very satisfied owner of DVD # 1. And if you finish DVD # 2 I will buy it too. A very small contribution to you retirement.
Gary L Webb On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Don Ordes <[email protected]> wrote: > Fly tying can be a couple of nights a month to stock up on depleted > favorite patterns, or a full-blown multi-faceted hobby, hobby-business, > part-time business, or retirement business. > > If you include the satellite activities *besides *fishing, which include > getting together with other tiers, attending fly shows (or tying at them), > researching, publishing books or videos, mentoring, and of course vfb-ing, > there's a lot to keep it diverse and interesting. When it gets boring, just > add a new venue to the tying and challenge yourself to kick it up a notch. > Or plan a new trip for different fish, and tie the flies needed for that. > It should never ever get boring, especially if you include a sense of humor > or art to the process. > > On materials, my challenge after this last move and re-organization is > just finding what I need amongst the myriad of materials I've collected. > But I have a plan for next year for retardment. My 'retirement' will really > just mean swapping focus from the oil & gas business to Fantasy Flies and > videos. I intend to get a shop and turn it into a fly-base of operations. > > Ahh, the *video*. Rope-dub DVD#2. Thinking of an alternate plan- put it > out *for comments*. > > Instead of a long DVD which is taking forever to film and produce (*if* I > can get any time), how about a You-tube channel with *themed* short > videos uploaded regularly- not only on rope-dubbing (will go on forever), > but on mice (deerhair), flex-o, McFlyfoam, #32's, salt-flies, streamers, > etc.? > > Big difference is it would be *free* to all, which is how I handled it in > the first place with Byard, putting the RD videos on his site for anyone to > see (pretty crude at the time). My pay would be with visits & subscribers- > from Y-T. Then also I’d still be selling the giant Fantasy Flies, framed > streamers, mice, etc. Hopefully make for a busy yet pleasant retirement. > > This way I could somewhat follow the comments in adjusting what I tie or > show next and just let it evolve. Of course, there will be my sense of > humor worked in throughout all of the videos to keep it from being all > ‘dry’. > > And since I’m slowing way down in attending fly shows (travelling less and > less), I’ll make a ‘Baits Hotel’ video just for giggles and grins (and to > survive me). > > Comments? (Especially from those who have DVD #1.) > > DonO > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Allan Fish > Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 7:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: p.s.: Re: [VFB] QFTD > > p.s.: > I also like to be around other fly tyers. You get to meet so many neat > people. > > And the occasional scalawag like me. > > Allan > > -- > -- > 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. > > -- > -- > 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. > -- -- 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.
