Fly shop in Thailand (long0

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On 06 Dec 2003 21:08:20 GMT, ojunk (George Adams)
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From: "Mike Connor"

Because that is not fly-tying, it is fly-manufacture. Flydressing is an
integral part of the flyfishing experience for many, and this is one of
the
things which makes it great.

Indeed. I began learning to tie at about the same time I began
flyfishing. The
pleasure I derive from the fishing would be greatly diminished if I
fished with
store bought flies.

But it's great for those of us who haven't the time or the patience or
the talent or, in my case, much interest, in tying their own flies.
If I had to tie my own flies in order to fly fish, I'd hand over my
KPOS rods to my boss and my one buddy who fly fishes and go right back
to spinning gear.

Cyli: are you Sedona? I'm seriously considering a year off back home, in
Flag, and if so, maybe we can hook up and do some fishing. I bet if I
brought some tying gear down and helped you tie up something managable that
caught a few fish, you discover why so many fishermen tie their own flies.
I've only been at it for about a year, and now there are a handful of
patterns I use that I will never purchase. I still have to buy some of the
more complex ones, though, and I expect I always will.
--riverman

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 12:37:06 +0100, "riverman"
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Cyli: are you Sedona? I'm seriously considering a year off back home, in
Flag, and if so, maybe we can hook up and do some fishing. I bet if I
brought some tying gear down and helped you tie up something managable that
caught a few fish, you discover why so many fishermen tie their own flies.
I've only been at it for about a year, and now there are a handful of
patterns I use that I will never purchase. I still have to buy some of the
more complex ones, though, and I expect I always will.
--riverman

Nope. I'm in the winter state. MN. I think I'd love Sedona or at
least the area. Prying my husband out of here, where he loves his
golf course and his golf buddies and his golf job, would be the
killer. Though some of those more easterly semi-southern states look
good, too.

I can understand why people like to do it. It's art or craft. Very
personal art or craft.. Just not my kind of art . I've heard what
it can run in long term costs. Buying new releases of every art
program I've ever owned for the computer every single year probably
wouldn't come near it.
--

rbc:vixen,Minnow Goddess,Willow Watcher,and all that sort of thing.
Often taunted by trout.
Only a fool would refuse to believe in luck. Only a damn fool would rely on it.

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I can understand why people like to do it. It's art or craft. Very
personal art or craft.. Just not my kind of art . I've heard what
it can run in long term costs. Buying new releases of every art
program I've ever owned for the computer every single year probably
wouldn't come near it.
--


One may also do it for practically nothing. This was once an art in itself.

The following quote is by no means a personal criticism. If you don´t want
to tie flies, then you don´t want to. It just seems appropriate to the
thread, and the original post.

"The fly fisherman who knows nothing of his flies is as great an anachronism
as the painter who knows nothing of his paints.
More, he is a bad man of business".
(J.W. Dunne, "Sunshine and the Dry Fly" 1924)

TL
MC