What do fly fishers like?

Hello all,

I'm in the process of creating a website whose purpose is to help
people do nice things for each other.

Many times, you want to do something for someone, but all you know
about them is that they are interested in a particular hobby or
activity that you don't know much about.

I'm collecting information about as many different hobbies as I can.
So...two questions.

1. What do fly fishers like/need/want?
I'm looking for a list of things that someone else could pick out for
you that you would really enjoy receiving. This can include items, gift
certificates to particular stores, magazine subscriptions, books,
favors, trips to events, etc. Anything that you would find useful
and/or desirable in your capacity as a fly fisher. These don't have to
be "bought" items. If you really need lots of empty egg cartons, put it
on the list!

2. If I was married to a fly fisher, and wanted to better understand
what they are talking about over the dinner table without actually
becoming a fly fisher myself, what books or websites should I look at?

Any information would be appreciated by myself and likely by the
families and friends of many fly fishers! The guys over in the
woodworking newsgroup did a great job on their page. I have high hopes
for the fly fishers!

If you want to see what the results look like, click on any of the
links on this page under Find Out What They Like:
http://www.spousalsponsorship.org/pages/index.html

NiceTo FlyFishers wrote:
Hello all,

I'm in the process of creating a website whose purpose is to help
people do nice things for each other.

1. What do fly fishers like/need/want?

A blow job will do just fine.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

rw wrote:

1. What do fly fishers like/need/want?

A blow job will do just fine.


Um...I'm afraid you'll have to see your own spouse for that one. As to
recommending it as a gift idea, that's a whole different kind of
website than the one I'm making.

Does anyone else have a suggestion? What about catalogs like Cabelas?
Do you like stuff from there or is that to far towards camping?

"NiceTo FlyFishers" wrote...

1. What do fly fishers like/need/want?

Bamboo rods are usually a good gift idea; Phillipson, Granger, or a custom
short lite rod, like a 6' 2wt are good choices. Also fly tying materials,
especially those essential but hard to get items, like albino wombat belly
fur, size 32 no-see-um hooks, or a mating pair of jungle cocks. Or better
yet, a jungle cock and a jungle hen. And you can never go wrong with a
bottle of single malt scotch. As a general rule of thumb, the older the
flyfisher, the older the single malt needs to be. Also, there is a long
history of flyfishing literature; an autographed first edition of "A
Treatyse of Fysshinge wyth an Angle" by Julian Berners would be a welcome
addition to any anlers library. The second most revered volume among
flyfishers is "To Hell with Fishing" by Ed Zern, as it is filled with
profound wisdom and sage advice. One thing you don't want to give a
flyfisher is a new hat; you don't want to touch his old hat, probably not
even with rubber gloves


2. If I was married to a fly fisher, and wanted to better understand
what they are talking about over the dinner table without actually
becoming a fly fisher myself, what books or websites should I look at?

Best bet is just to realize that anything a fisherman is saying about his
fishing trip is either a lie or a damn lie, and just nod your head and smile
as if you actually believed any of it. You could try reading "The Dry Fly
and Fast Water" by George LaBranche, after a few chapters of which you will
come to understand that your flyfisher is totally insane, obsessed with
outsmarting a fish that has a brain the size of a dry pea, and having a
somewhat difficult time of it. The flyfisher spends his day up to his flask
in a chilly stream, using a $1000 stick to tangle his $60 line up into some
branches, emitting noxious fumes from his pipe and his waders, while
imbibing more single malt than is appropriate for a Sunday morning, and
after hours of tangling his line, falling in the stream, and using a stream
of vocabulary that would make the very devil blush, he finally catches a
fish, and lets it go. What's not to understand?


--
Timothy Juvenal
www.tjwoodworking.com

Hambone Slim wrote:

Best bet is just to realize that anything a fisherman is saying about his
fishing trip is either a lie or a damn lie

Yes...your list of "essentials" looks a bit suspect to me.

Where do you like to shop for your wombat fur? Is Orvis good? What
other sites would you like a gift certificate from?

BTW, if I can grab a good chunk of what you wrote above, you've already
won part of the essay contest. So choose your list of gift certificate
recommendations carefully.

"NiceTo FlyFishers" wrote in message
oups.com...
rw wrote:

1. What do fly fishers like/need/want?

A blow job will do just fine.


Um...I'm afraid you'll have to see your own spouse for that one. As to
recommending it as a gift idea, that's a whole different kind of
website than the one I'm making.

rw doesn't have a spousal unit, he has a *partner*. No doubt that he'll
make due with what he's got!

Op

"NiceTo FlyFishers" wrote...
Hambone Slim wrote:


Where do you like to shop for your wombat fur? Is Orvis good? What
other sites would you like a gift certificate from?

Orvis is a word that can generate quite a thread around here. That's
beacause some of their stuff is very good, some overpriced, and all
generally marketed toward "sports" (wealthy neophytes). Still, some Orvis
rods I've seen are as nice as any anywhere, and they have good resale value.

I'm more of a local flyshop guy myself, great places to pick up some locally
tied flies, other stuff your gonna buy anyway. I figger if they don't have,
I prolly didn't really need it anyway.

www.flyfishersparadise.com

http://paflyfish.com/xoops/html/index.php

www.cortlandline.com

www.cabelas.com


Personally, I like Cabelas a lot more than Orvis.


BTW, if I can grab a good chunk of what you wrote above, you've already
won part of the essay contest. So choose your list of gift certificate
recommendations carefully.

Take whatever you like, edit as you please!

....and let me know when you're ready for being nice to acoustic guitar
players 8^)


--
Timothy Juvenal
www.tjwoodworking.com

"NiceTo FlyFishers" wrote in message
ups.com...
Hello all,

I'm in the process of creating a website whose purpose is to help
people do nice things for each other.

Many times, you want to do something for someone, but all you know
about them is that they are interested in a particular hobby or
activity that you don't know much about.

I'm collecting information about as many different hobbies as I can.
So...two questions.

Actually, though I have no spousal unit, nor a *partner,* just a part-time
canine unit, I think your website is a pretty good idea. Like Sandy said
though,

"Buying equipment for fly fishermen is a little like buying clothes
(especially for women), where only the recipient really knows what they
want."

What is really needed for the flyfisher with spousal unit/*partner* is the
go ahead to buy what he or she needs/wants, without a bunch of fuss. If you
could somehow incorporate into your website a "YES BOX" with amounts that
are ok for the flyfisher to spend, now that would be a real coup!

However, short of the above suggestion, most avid flyfishers either know
what they want/need, or they know where to go to get what they want/need and
simply post their request on the refrigerator door for approval.
Unfortunately, for those flyfishers with spousal units/*partners,* the
approval is the hardest part to achieve--or so I've been told, not having
the requisite spousal unit/*partner.*

Thanks for the thought though!

Op --oh yeah, if you are truly getting into flyfishin' yourself, stick
around here for great info on anything related to flyfishin', politics,
social movements, religious debates, loving discussion, hateful replies,
antagonistic and protagonistic arguments, bear protection, the definitive
word on C&R or C& K....--

Mr. Opus McDopus wrote:

rw doesn't have a spousal unit, he has a *partner*. No doubt that he'll
make due with what he's got!

Spousal Sponsorship Program does not presume to define "spouse" or
"sponsor" in any particular way. If someone wants to be nice to rw,
they can call each other whatever they like.

wrote:
NiceToFlyFishers:

You've done a good job keeping your cool.

You mean rw's comment? I've been on the net for a long time. Believe
me, I've seen worse.


Next thing you know the giftee has a plane ticket
as well as a box of flies.

Interesting notion. Travel vouchers...?