Gary, you boldly spilled the beans, so I will follow up. After years of tying practically every fly, and usually staying up until past midnight at my tying vise the night before a trip, I decided to come clean and stop tying too - at least partially.
Here is where I am on my Twelve Steps to Flytying Freedom; now I only tie salmon, steelhead and nymphs(big easy flys) and buy my dry flys. www.hillsdiscountflies.com sells pretty good quality dry flys for ~$8/dozen. At that price it is not worth the hassle to tie your own parachutes, stimulators, and other time consuming patterns. -----Original Message----- From: Gary Meyers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 8:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FlyFishing efficiency tips? I agree with Kent's comment wholeheartedly, "success in fishing is directly proportional to the amount of time one's line is actually in/on the water." To that end I quit tying years ago. I was too slow and too spastic to tie anything other than wooly-buggers anyway. If I've got some (daylight) time, I'd just as soon spend it on the water rather than tying or fussing around with tying materials and tools. Any more, I just buy flies. I always have WAY more than I need anyway, just from years of accumulation. I use the plastic divider boxes as described by others, too, for the same reasons. I use the combo rod/reel tubes too. They are particularly efficient when floating rivers. You can change from dry to wet in an instant just by changing rods, and your spare rods are well protected. Gary Meyers Kirkland >> It looks like the boxes that come with the setup Sean recommends are >> for storing flies and not for carrying with you while fishing unless >> you're in your boat or something. > > As my own fly collection outgrew my dozen or so vest-pocket-sized > boxes, I migrated it over to the larger, divided boxes. It only took > me a couple trips of carrying 4 or 5 12 x 15 x 2 inch boxes > containing many hundreds of flies to convince me that the best place > for them was at home. > > Besides lugging around the boxes, I found I spent much more time > rummaging through them and tying on one after another 'perfect' flies > than what I was there to do in the first place - fishing. > > I've come to believe that more than any other single factor, success > in fishing is directly proportional to the amount of time one's line > is actually in/on the water. > > Kent Lufkin > >
