You know folks,
I was setting here thinking a bit ago and had a terrible thought. I have
had probably one of the greatest losses of knowledge with this hard drive
failure. Over the last several years of being on the vfb, I had saved over
1500 fly patterns and variants tied by the list members and posted to the
group. I know there were over that many because I had 1 special file I put
them in. Now it is lost, so it seams. I realized just how much I cherished
that file, there were so many tying techniques from members on just how they
adjusted a fly to work in their particular water. I would refer back to it
on countless occasions to see just how Del, Jimmy D., Tony or Don or Joyce
or so many other would tie such a pattern. I realized just how elfish I have
been over the years, not only is it a loss to me, but unless someone else
saved each and every recipe as I had, they are lost to the big bit bucket in
the sky, or maybe not. I called a friend of mine a bit ago, he has accepted
the "Challenge" to see if he can recover the "VFB Recipes Lost Files",
(sounds like a Tom Clancy don't it). "If" he can do it, I am going to find a
way to convert and save all that he can recover and then find a way to make
them available for everyone, such a task.
I guess the point I could make is this, if you have such files, find a
way to save them so that they are there for others as well as yourself.
Don't end up with the heartache that I just realized I had.
Jimi
