I know the list is complete but I do have one more thing to add that further extends my reason for being one of the charter members.
Has 2 or more bird skins or other animal furs in the freezer awaiting to be cured. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 7:47 PM Subject: [VFB] Re-posting of characteristics of fanatical fly tiers > 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. > > > >
