What does your wife say about your tying habit?

[FlySmyth]

Mine calls fly tying "arts and crafts for men."

She is pretty tolerant but I only tie in the one corner of the office and only on that one table.

Ken "The Fly Smyth" Raddon.

[steelie]

"clean up the $%#^ mess!"

[Crosby]

Haven't seen here for 13 years because I didn't like what she said then. (0:

[Trouty]

Shakes her head and says I'm obsessed - whether its tying, rod building, reading fishing books, talking about fishing, dreaming about fishing or even actually fishing.

[MOKE]

Compared to my audio recording habit, she prays for the minute purchase dollars represented in fly tying / fishing!

MOKE

[icthys]

She hates the mess, and I hate it when she cleans it up for me.

[dpflyfisher]

Well when my wife breaks out the scrap book stuff I don't say a word and it stays out for days. When I tie she moans and groans about the time I spend and about the mess. The funny thing is that I tie for just a few hours and I always clean up when I'm done her stuff is out for days.

[Junge]

My wife is glad I'm not watching TV. Of course it helps that it is all hidden away in a room she doesn't go into.

[9ftRod]

Yeah that habit is probably the #1 choice out of all my other bad habits. ie Belching, drinking from the milk container, picking my nose instead of getting up and walking all the way to the bathroom just to get a piece of paper.

Im sure the showing up at 4 am and not being able to get in the house cause my keys magically dont work the door anymore. Or how about going fishing instead of meeting at her parents house for dinner, especially going on a fishing trip and hanging out with my buddies so they can work hard to undo the work she has put in to me.

So they fly tying wasnt ever really a problem, Especially now that she left. She kept saying how she thought I liked fishing more than being with her. The last straw was when I agreed with her.

So if you want to keep her off your back while your tying just remind her you could be doing something a lot less productive.

JR

[Nicholas Keay]

I started fly fishing and tying again after a long hiatus. I stopped when I was 13 and started up again about 1.5 years ago when I was 35. When my wife was a kid she fished but it was all bobber and worm, or the occasional minnow. She fished in northern Wisconsin and caught Bass, Blue Gills and occasionally a Northern Pike. We even did a little fishing,(deep-sea), on our honeymoon so I assumed that she understrood fishing and it all consuming effects. Of course I'm one to become totally consumed in my hobbies as I'm sure most of you are. She cannot understand Fly Fishing and tying at all. She refers to it as "freak fishing"; perhaps not an inaccurate accessment as only a freak would spend that much time tying flys, knots, considering casting theory. Oh well; I'm a freak. At least I not in bars fishing for other things!

[ScottT]

1) Went fly fishing on our honeymoon - I fished (not all day, I'm not stupid), she walk the shore and took pictures.

2) Came home from day of fishing when wife was 8+ months pregnant w/ 1st son, note on door said her water broke and she was at hospital and it "would be nice" if I could join them (again, not being stupid, I made it with an hour to spare).

3) She has endured me teaching her to throw a flyline, buying her waders, her "very own" float tube, and talking her into skinnydippin' on a secluded trout stream (it was mid-day - the fish weren't hitting...).

4) I patiently have torn apart many a vacuum cleaner over the years to dig out tying thread, tippet material, once an entire leader, rod winding thread, etc. If I'm tying anything with maribou, that vacuum is out before I'm even started!

All in all, someone around here has been a pretty good sport for almost 25 years. Something tells me that I married alot better than she did...

Scott

[Trout4x]

Not much about the tying, more about the time I spend on this website.

[flyty]

"especially going on a fishing trip and hanging out with my buddies so they can work hard to undo the work she has put in to me."

lol

"So they fly tying wasnt ever really a problem, Especially now that she left. She kept saying how she thought I liked fishing more than being with her. The last straw was when I agreed with her."

lololol

[LandGuppy]

My wife usually says something like, "no, no, you've got it all wrong. You've got to tie in the hackle BEFORE you dub the body. Get outta the way, let me show you." (Or something to that effect).

ScottT: Great story about skinny dipping. Way to make the most out of a tough situation. Even though the fish weren't hittin' it, at least you were.:-)

[cardiac]

I'm lucky. I don't have a tying habit.

[Ouzel]

That's not surprising at the price Joni can get flies.

[jrccarter]

My wife complains about the UTOF website more than the tying. She says I am on the computer too much checking out fishing stuff.

[Mike A]

My wife asked how to tie those cute little ants for use on a scrapbook page about picnics.

Mostly, she says my flies are beautiful. I'm a lucky man.

[walksinwater]

Mike A,

Yes indeed you are a lucky man.

[cardiac]

Originally posted by Ouzel
That's not surprising at the price Joni can get flies.
Bill, she doesn't buy them, she's the one with the habit. Not me.

[nhancock]

My wife and I have an arrangement that works out for both of us. One night a week I take our girls to my moms house and she gets to do what ever she wants. One night a week she takes the girls to her moms house and I tie flies for a few hours. Weekends - anything goes.