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Tying Speed
Okay, everyone take a guess. Oh, if you were there, please hold off answering.
Fly tying speed contest at the show in Danbury this passed Sunday. Here's the scenario:
1. About 10 participating tiers were seated at a long table.
2. Tiers were each given a spool of the same thread, unlimited supply of size 12 wet fly hooks, and a hen neck.
3. Tiers were shown a simple soft hackle fly(thread body and collar of 2 turns of hackle) and told they were to tie as many of those flies as they could in 1 hour.
4. They tied for a monitored 60 minutes, after which the flies each tied were counted by neutral observers.
Complete this sentence:
'The winning tier tied __ flies.'
I'll provide the actual answer tomorrow(Tuesday).
Allan
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a ridiculous number of
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Why??
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I'm a much better Fly fisher when talking fishing, than when I'm Actually Fly fishing!
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Allan, RW here
The winning tier tied 99 flies.
Considering that there were ten tyers and even if they only tied one a minute that's 600 flies. Didja get a few of them wets for me?
By the way, were you one of the contestants?
RW
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"We fish for pleasure; I for mine, you for yours." -James Leisenring on fishing the wet fly-
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Are you guys serious? Fly looked like:
[url=http://www.danica.com/flytier/aconba/snipe_purple.htm:513e8]http://www.danica.com/flytier/aconba/snipe_purple.htm[/url:513e8]
but using the thread for the body and with a slightly heavier collar. Also, I was not asking for the combined total. Just how many flies the top(fastest) tier tied.
Oh, yes, I was one of the contestants but was not the winner.
Allan
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I would have to say 45. It would be hard to keep the same pace over an hour -
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Tight lines,
Jeremy Barela [url=http://www.customflys.com:bb398]www.customflys.com[/url:bb398]
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