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 <f...@tribcsp.com> 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: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > 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 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 Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 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 Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 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 Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
