Ok, I seem to be a potential canidate, I have checked off my list numbers2, 3, 13, 14, 15, 19, 25, and have given flies away in little viles taped to the top of christmass presents because I had a couple of hours to kill.
-Critter oting DonO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OK, here's the latest. Jimmy, your's are combined in #15. > Need a fanatical aproach to rule #13. > Comments on any rules? > > Candidates in another email. > > 1. Raising genetic birds, exotics, or game for tying purposes. > 2. Anything involving the family pet(s) and the ensuing procurement of tying > materials, including whiskers for antennae. > 3. Causing a traffic jam in your pursuit of road kill. Knows how to de-bug > road kill. > 4. Making your own hooks > 5. Dyeing your own materials not to save money, but to get 'just the right' > shade. > 6. Anyone who uses bark, tea leaves, roots, etc to dye materials. > 7. Taking a vacation to tie flies, or make fly tying shows as a tier on a > regular basis. > 8. Searches through waste cans/dumpsters for tying supplies. > 9. Name on 'call list' at taxidermist (at least one) for scraps, tails, > etc. > 10. Owns more tying gear and materials than fishing gear. > 11. People think of you first as "The fly tier", even before your > profession. > 12. Has more fur and feathers than he/she could ever use in a lifetime, and > sees no reason not to collect more. > 13. Has a library for fly-tying. > 14. Has an dedicated area for fly tying that never gets used for anything > else. > 15. The first use-consideration for any container is fly materials, and > people know to save them for you. > 16. Ties a 19/0 fly, then a size 32 Mustad fly. (Need that one so I can > get in) > 17. Takes up photography, buys gear, just to support/photograph the > flytying hobby. > 18. Has a web site for flytying. > 19. Gets a rush from seeing Whiting Cree or exotic bird plumage. > 20. Ties classic Atlantic Salmon Flies > 21. You open a fly shop. > 22. You own a Whiting stuffed rooster, and then name him. > 23. You meister mega-fly swaps, and then actually do it again, and again. > 24. You enter more fly swaps than sit out. > 25. You actually tie all of your flies for all swaps you enter. > 26. Ties professionally although they have a job that pays the bills. > -Critter (Hunting scaly creatures and catching furry creatures since 1808.) http://www.geocities.com/krazedcritter/Home
