Re: [VFB] Latest IOFF rules- Tuesday am

[mark romero]

Jimi, that's like when i go to Montana, Idaho, or Arkansas to tye at all 
those shows. I get to fish some of the time, but a lot of the time i 
"required" to be "on duty." Working vacation, all based around tying, (for 
demonstration and or conservation) as an excuse to go fishing, and a 
justification for spending all that money to do something i could do by 
walking out my front OR back door and not even have to get in my truck. Make 
sense now? I didn't think so, LMAO. But it sure is FUN!!!!! mark

From: "Desert Eagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [VFB] Latest IOFF rules- Tuesday am
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:38:26 -0700
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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