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Post by jskowron on Feb 26, 2007 16:16:47 GMT -5
Having just started tying more regularly for the upcoming season, I'm reminded of a few unavoidable facts about the process:
Tying Fact #1- You WILL cut the thread
Tying Fact #2- If you haven't cut the thread already, you'll probably break it.
Tying Fact #3- Deer hair clippings are living organisms that reproduce at an incredible rate and possess an instinctual need to migrate. Every hair that you clip off the fly produces at least 10 pieces that will later be found in other rooms in the house, your car, your workplace, your dinner, your hair (only avoidable through baldness), even your kid's diapers. Nothing can be done about this. Don't even try.
you guys got any others?
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Post by flyfishgb on Feb 26, 2007 18:20:44 GMT -5
You will catch the thread on the hook and break it twice during the same fly....
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Post by yashuone on Feb 27, 2007 13:13:31 GMT -5
;D ;D ;D
all too often, painfully true...
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Post by Mark Patenaude on Feb 28, 2007 9:09:47 GMT -5
You will impale you finger on the hook point.
You will drop and lose beads.
As stated, you will wind up with more deer/elk hair on you than on the fly.
You will trim too much off a deer/elk hair head and have to tear it apart and start again.
You will pull too hard and break the thread.
You will need reading glasses to tie (at some point).
You will use more 6/0 and 8/0 black thread than any of the others.
You will learn from other tyers and learn to not to be afraid to ask questions.
You will start out with an entry level vise and move on to something better as you get better.
You will learn that a snake light placed directly over the jaws is invaluable.
You will acquire more and more tying materials.
You will have a lifetime of enjoyment.
Mark
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Post by JoeOverlock on Feb 28, 2007 10:09:41 GMT -5
You will buy material that you don't need or will ever use just because it's in a clearance bin.
You will picture yourself tying like A.K. Best and fishing like Lefty Kreh but in reality tie like you have no thumbs and eventually pull out the spin caster.
You will tie 10 different variations on the same bug only to realize that 2 was 1 more then you actually needed.
You will tie all your dries one size to big and your streamers 3 sizes to small.
You will realize that this should of been the year you went barbless after one bad forward cast.
You will tie more dries then you need but not enough streamers, nymphs, or emergers.
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Post by jskowron on Feb 28, 2007 10:56:03 GMT -5
How true this is - I ran out of size 10 dry fly hooks, and I'm not going to buy any more! I also seem to have a lot of size 10 streamers, but nary a 6 or 4 in sight!
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Post by yashuone on Mar 1, 2007 14:01:20 GMT -5
ha ha... just remembered a good one... you will inevitably zap-a-gap your finger to several nearly complete flies before learning how much is to much glue.   ;D |
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Post by JoeOverlock on Mar 2, 2007 15:35:09 GMT -5
I keep zap-a-gap in my vest. It's amazing for streamside fly and rod repairs.
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Post by yashuone on Mar 2, 2007 16:24:29 GMT -5
good call joe, excellent advice that i will happily take. i have always kept it with my tying crap but i can think of tons of times it wouuld have been handy to have in the vest. time to get another tube i guess...
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