dying feathers

[skiptomylu]

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

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

[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

[skiptomylu]

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

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

[Redman]

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

[PBUG2009]

its a good feeling

[gabulldog]

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

[skiptomylu]

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

Skip

[skiptomylu]

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

Skip

[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.

[skiptomylu]

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.

Exactly!