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rw · March 10th, 2006, 09:52 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.tying

wrote:
You can buy flies from Kenya for $3.50 - $4.50 a dozen.
But you do, usually, have to buy 50 dozen or more
at a crack.

Is that 50 dozen all of the same pattern? :-)

I've heard that these Kenyan flies are of poor quality. I don't think
the elegance of the tie counts for much, but I don't want cheap hooks.

I was probably going overboard to say my only motivation was to save
money. There are at least two other factors:

(1) convenience. If I'm getting low on my bread-and-butter patterns, I
don't want to have to wait for a shipment of flies of questionable
quality from Kenya, and I don't want to drive 60 miles to the nearest
decent fly shop. (In fact, I'm not really keen on sending my credit card
information to Kenya.)

(2) specialty flies. If I'm going to Belize or Alaska I probably won't
be able to find the flies I want in a flyshop for anything resembling a
reasonable price. It's cheaper to tie them myself. I'll buy a few in the
fly shop, though.

I can easily afford to buy all the flies I'll ever conceivably need, but
I'm cheap.

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