The International Order of Fanatical Flytiers (IOFF) Fanatical Fly Tiers are guilty of as many of the following as possible:
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 furniture for flytying and buys tools just for the purpose. 32. Your fishing gear is in a closet so it's not in the way of your fly-tying. 33. Goes to a fly show and spends more time in the tying section than in the fishing section. 34. Would go right on tying flies even if flyfishing ceased to exist. 35. Can never leave a pattern as-is. Just gotta mess with it. Over and Over. 36. Pays bills with flies. Gift-giving consists of flies. 37. Has a business card file just for flytying.
