Originally Posted by
Lew
You'll know you're a "real" fly tyer, when you go to the flyshop, spend the $20 for the materials for this hot new fly you saw on the internet. Put the bag down near your tying station, and then don't go near it for a couple of weeks. Then, when you discover the bag with the purple chenille, and the purple hen neck, and the seven other items you bought, you realize that you can't remember the pattern you bought them for, and don't remember the website you looked at in the first place, and haven't got a clue how to put anything together with the stuff you've got. No, you don't get a plaque, or a medal when you get there. I didn't get mine!:p