dying feathers

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Originally Posted by gabulldog

well like said all ready dyeing isnt allways worth the cost i dye alot and i enjoy doin it but im a broke @@@ from health probs and way things are now adays so i hit my friends up who hunt and i dont even think about dying stuff till i have 20 or more tails to dye and when im done with them i guess i have like 20 cent a tail in them hey cant beat it
now feathers are a pain and i rarly do them becouse i cant make them look as good as what i can buy and i dont mean colors only realy one time have i ever truely sat down to dye feathers a buddy orders 100 eggs to hach and let the rosters get 7 months and let me get the necks and sadles from the 14 he had and in the end i had a ton of nice lookin hackle but i worked my butt off to get it

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Yes health issues, wow I think if I didn't have my health problems I wouldn't be doing this at all and would have never learned. I didn't have anything to do other than fish or watch TV after I quit trading stocks. I did well with that, but after my bypass surgery I just wouldn't do what I knew I had to to make money so after losing what ever I lost in the surgery I quit. It left a huge hole of time I spent each day studying and trading. Well I can't fish all day with my back and shoulders and I can't watch TV all day or would go crazy so I started tying to have something to do and that is why I really still do this.

Hard to believe it has come to the point it's too much a lot of the time.

Skip

Skip: I quit commercial tying years ago but the thing I can't quit is buying like I still am. LOL. Well the only good part is that me and my friends will never run out of jigs. I have given away more jigs in the last year than what I would ever use in 5 years. But it is fun the hardest part is convincing the wife to let me spend MORE MONEY.

I keep telling her that it keeps me out of beer joints and bars. Not only that but I spend less money tying jigs. And it keeps me at home.

Redman

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Originally Posted by Redman

Skip: I quit commercial tying years ago but the thing I can't quit is buying like I still am. LOL. Well the only good part is that me and my friends will never run out of jigs. I have given away more jigs in the last year than what I would ever use in 5 years. But it is fun the hardest part is convincing the wife to let me spend MORE MONEY.

I keep telling her that it keeps me out of beer joints and bars. Not only that but I spend less money tying jigs. And it keeps me at home.

Redman

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That is just too funny and I am the same way, I just can't seem to help my self not buy more and more. Heck I have 3 different brands of cactus chenille, LOL! I know that this is the only way to pay for my habit now.

Now I don't think that I could convince my wife at this point that doing this is less money than just buying jigs, LOL! However now I have also got picky and there are a lot of jig out there that I just wouldn't want.

I feel we are all somewhat kindred spirits here.

Skip

Skip: Maybe a 12 step program " hi my name is Bill ". Flytiers Anonymous. Oh well as long as I am able to pay my bills I can think of a lot worse ways to spend money.

As I am a old geezer it keeps my mind sharp and my hands nimble. Was 9 years old when I tied my first fly. 10 when I did my first jig and its been down hill since then. Had alot of fun caught alot of fish and made alot of people happy. You know the feeling!!!!

Redman

its a good feeling

oh man if my wife didnt love me she would have been gone year ago now adays when a box shows up with my name on it she just says i dont want to know do i
and it comes with the same look that i got the first time she came home to find 20 buck tails and 10 tree rat tails hanging to dry in sun from that days dying on a line thro our yard lol

Well then like me you have a great wife! can't say much more than that, LOL!

Skip

Redman that is too funny, a 12 step program, but not sure it would work on this addiction.

Skip

As for a 12 step program,it definitely wouldn't work.Most 12 step programs the person wants to quit.With tying,no one does.

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Originally Posted by JUNGLEJIMJIGS

As for a 12 step program,it definitely wouldn't work.Most 12 step programs the person wants to quit.With tying,no one does.

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Exactly!