I qualify for all except 1,4,7 (what's a vacation?), 16,21,22,23,26, Jimi >DonO wrote: > >>Joyce, I modified #3 just for you. >>It's now the IOFF (International Order of Fanatical Flytiers) so we can >>add >>our sisters in aberrant behavior. >> >>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. May actually carry a kit in the car for handling 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. >>27. Keeps personal records of fly recipes, designs, photos, and sketches >>fly designs and ideas. >>28. Has their fly materials inventoried in their computer. >>29. Flytying/gathering materials is almost always one part of personal >>multi-tasking. >>30. Has lost count of how many flytying sites are in the "favorites" >>list. >>Has multiple levels of folders to organize them. >>31. Custom builds personal furniture for flytying and buys woodworking >>tools just for the purpose. >>32. Your fishing gear is crammed in a closet so it's not in the way of >>your >>fly-tying gear. >>33. Goes to a fly show and spends more time in the tying areas than in >>the >>fishing areas.
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