Tie it or toss it and forget it. One already have too much to stress over already without stressing over a single hook.
More important is to set a date of when you amnd the family will have recuped enough to hit the water and use the ones you tied. Yep, they have to have a period of recuperation also due to their concern for you. Jim On 4/7/07, Chuck Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Garry: I'm NOT a pro tier.. and barely an amateur LOL.. But I guess you could buy , say 600 hooks (24 packs) and tie 100 sets of 6 LOL...or 50 sets of 12, or 200 packs of 3... Chuckles ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garry V. Wiles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 9:32 PM Subject: [VFB] Hot Dogs and Hooks > Listers, > > OK, this is ON TOPIC and goes along with the subject lines. As I stated > in my reply to Jimmy and his snowfall, I bought materials and hooks on > Thursday with intentions of tieing a bunch during my up and coming hernia > operation and the down time afterwards. Today started some warm up and > I've tied 2 dozen size 10 Red Tag variants out of a box of 25 hooks. (see > my tie in to hot dogs - dogs in packs of 10 and buns in packs of 8). I > don't normally sit down and tie a box of the same or similar patterns that > often and I don't really notice the extra hook. But TODAY, I now have 4 > sets of 1/2 doz each of the variants, leaving me the 1 hook left over. My > question is for the bulk or professional tiers -- what do you end up doing > w/the extra hook? Normally, if I were tieing for someone, I'd give them > an extra fly or keep that one for myself as a pattern; but the ones for > today were pretty much for my and my kids' use. Now I have 1 pattern with > an uneven amount. This lack of equality gnaws at my personal obsessive > compulsive disorder and is hard to tolerate - next time I might try the 5 > patterns of 5, since that goes evenly into boxes of 25 and/or 50. > HOWEVER, it goes against the 3,6,12 quantities of tieing a pattern. > > HELP!!! > > > Garry >
