Garry,
here is what I do:
usually I throw the box with the last hook into a seperate drawer, where
I collect them. Yes.... Some like Don collect Hackle, others like Denny
collect chicken and roosters, Tony collects bamboo fly rods and Jimmy
collects flies showing the colors of his favorite team....
I collect hook samples, fly boxes and flies from other tyers.
Sometimes I run through this drawer and look for doubles. Gives me
almost always enough hooks to ty for a fishing trip.
Rene
Garry V. Wiles wrote:
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
