Gary Smith
fight crime...shoot back
DonO wrote:
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.
