Ouzel
11-06-2002, 06:50 AM
or sometimes called Inventory Time.
I started by trying to decide which flies I would be tying this winter. Replacing standard flies I use yearly was the easy part.
Then deciding which flies (hatches) I've found succesful this year was the next.
Then which flies (hatches) on distant waters, etc.
At the same time developing a list of materials needed which leads to checking what I have and what I need to buy.
Always need a vareity of hooks, that's another easy.
So I start digging into 'The Box' and around my bench and checking off supplies in hand. What I found is I think 'the stuff' may have some latent breeding power. My stuff now has stuff of its own. I have stuff I did not even remember I had (that may be a personal deficentcy) and some of it still in a unused packet.
Some of this stuff is older than many of you, raise your hands if you still have a dozen or more items from "Herters", WHO?
One of the old sporting supply houses that put out a catalog larger then most telephone books. They had everything inculding tying, hunting, fishing and camping tips. Great catalog, I kid you not.
Am I going to toss out any of these items? Of course not, by now they have some kind of 'squaters rights' like old tools you have not used in years in your garage. Many can raise your hands to that.
Will I stop this infernal habit of buying material for a new fly I want to try or using a new material on a old fly. Big time NO.
Many of the new materials are better than the old and make tying easier, cool.
I still think dubbing was developed by a guy who ran out of yarn.
The new materials can give a sheen to flies to make them more natural or noticeable.
Still I do need to make space for this new stuff and keep the old,'just in case', of what I don't know. Nuclear Winter, Ice Age?
I thought about building a bigger box, no don't go there, you'd just fill that one too, nitwit, you've got to learn self control better. Ya right.
I could fish less, ya right. I don't get to fish enough now, how am I going to use up this stuff? I could stop taking my tying kit with me and not tie some evenings, ya right. I could buy the flies I need and do away with tying, no, I like tying, I like trying new materials and patterns, stuff yourself.
Finally, I think when I'm picking up some hooks and a few new itmes I do NEED I'll control myself and not buy any stuff I already have, and do use, but have 47 of. Remember the discussion about 'Black Thread'?
Still, I would like to try some of the newer thinner threads, only a couple of extra items and inexpensive.
Ya, right.
I started by trying to decide which flies I would be tying this winter. Replacing standard flies I use yearly was the easy part.
Then deciding which flies (hatches) I've found succesful this year was the next.
Then which flies (hatches) on distant waters, etc.
At the same time developing a list of materials needed which leads to checking what I have and what I need to buy.
Always need a vareity of hooks, that's another easy.
So I start digging into 'The Box' and around my bench and checking off supplies in hand. What I found is I think 'the stuff' may have some latent breeding power. My stuff now has stuff of its own. I have stuff I did not even remember I had (that may be a personal deficentcy) and some of it still in a unused packet.
Some of this stuff is older than many of you, raise your hands if you still have a dozen or more items from "Herters", WHO?
One of the old sporting supply houses that put out a catalog larger then most telephone books. They had everything inculding tying, hunting, fishing and camping tips. Great catalog, I kid you not.
Am I going to toss out any of these items? Of course not, by now they have some kind of 'squaters rights' like old tools you have not used in years in your garage. Many can raise your hands to that.
Will I stop this infernal habit of buying material for a new fly I want to try or using a new material on a old fly. Big time NO.
Many of the new materials are better than the old and make tying easier, cool.
I still think dubbing was developed by a guy who ran out of yarn.
The new materials can give a sheen to flies to make them more natural or noticeable.
Still I do need to make space for this new stuff and keep the old,'just in case', of what I don't know. Nuclear Winter, Ice Age?
I thought about building a bigger box, no don't go there, you'd just fill that one too, nitwit, you've got to learn self control better. Ya right.
I could fish less, ya right. I don't get to fish enough now, how am I going to use up this stuff? I could stop taking my tying kit with me and not tie some evenings, ya right. I could buy the flies I need and do away with tying, no, I like tying, I like trying new materials and patterns, stuff yourself.
Finally, I think when I'm picking up some hooks and a few new itmes I do NEED I'll control myself and not buy any stuff I already have, and do use, but have 47 of. Remember the discussion about 'Black Thread'?
Still, I would like to try some of the newer thinner threads, only a couple of extra items and inexpensive.
Ya, right.