01-13-2010, 09:21 PM
Stop ; spend the money on something else.
It starts out buying just enough to get by- you can keep it all in a tackle box or small rubber maid conatiner.
Then your wife or whom ever complains about not putting it away and not cleaning up afterwards. Then you decide you need a bigger area- a table- yeah that's it a table with maybe some shelves. Or better yet a roll top desk- more $$$. You end up taking over a corner of the basement or an entire room with cork boards , 3 sets of special lights- 12 different bobbins, 5 sets of hackle pliers, 3 different sized hair stackers, 2 large plastic boxes just for the different threads and 4 plastic boxes for hooks. You start adding jaws on your vise for #32 bunny midges and a set of jaws that can hold hooks for Marlins. You have enough packs of dubbings to make Peta think you have killed every rabbit west of the Rockies. You have 3 shelves that just hold hard bound books from the masters of fly tying and 2 more to hold the 3 magazines you get a month. You start talking in some other lanquage about hooks sizes , thread diameters and hackle quality. You start thinking about stopping on I 80 to cut a patch off a road killed badger. Life rotates around when can you get back to the "Bench"- talk of divorce- do I have enough for the #1 Hoffman or pay the rent ? Go back towards the light- stop before you start. Write it off as another foolish thought wave while you still can.
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It starts out buying just enough to get by- you can keep it all in a tackle box or small rubber maid conatiner.
Then your wife or whom ever complains about not putting it away and not cleaning up afterwards. Then you decide you need a bigger area- a table- yeah that's it a table with maybe some shelves. Or better yet a roll top desk- more $$$. You end up taking over a corner of the basement or an entire room with cork boards , 3 sets of special lights- 12 different bobbins, 5 sets of hackle pliers, 3 different sized hair stackers, 2 large plastic boxes just for the different threads and 4 plastic boxes for hooks. You start adding jaws on your vise for #32 bunny midges and a set of jaws that can hold hooks for Marlins. You have enough packs of dubbings to make Peta think you have killed every rabbit west of the Rockies. You have 3 shelves that just hold hard bound books from the masters of fly tying and 2 more to hold the 3 magazines you get a month. You start talking in some other lanquage about hooks sizes , thread diameters and hackle quality. You start thinking about stopping on I 80 to cut a patch off a road killed badger. Life rotates around when can you get back to the "Bench"- talk of divorce- do I have enough for the #1 Hoffman or pay the rent ? Go back towards the light- stop before you start. Write it off as another foolish thought wave while you still can.
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