Hooks by the hundreds...
Fly's by the dozen.
Just pondering while I was tying up a dozen.
I buy hooks in 50's or 100's. But everybody tye's by the dozen.
Is this like the hot dog thing where the wieners are sold in 10's and the buns by 8's?
Anybody got any history on this? Why a dozen fly's?
(Just curious)
(Hey! We are limited to 10 images! Something stinkith to high heaven.)
You can't post a dozen fly's!
Sonny Edmonds
"If I don't teach them, how will those Grand Kids learn to fish?"
Lesson 1: What catches fish Vs: What catches fisherman's money.
it was origionaly planed out by a Regal user, 96 to tie on and 4 for your vice to send across the room and off to hook heaven.
Eric
"Complexity is easy; Simplicity is difficult."
Georgy Shragin
Designer of ppsh41 sub machine gun
Don't bother to count but your 100 packs of hooks could average 96. They pack by weight and guess which side of "exact" the count will be? (I've been there.)
My guess reason for tying a dozen:
So you could lose one per month...yeah right. Okay, okay, well maybe not.
Chance number two...It takes 12 attempts to finally tie the fly so that it looks like the picture.
Jim
There are three ways to complete a project. The right way, the wrong way or the Boss' way. You'd best learn the Boss' way.
Caution is good!
Four is the number of hooks lost by cautious Regal users. Those who do not pay attention to detail and hook placement could have 96 hooks disappear into hook heaven and have only 4 hooks left to tie on. 8TOriginally Posted by Eric-WD
it was origionaly planed out by a Regal user, 96 to tie on and 4 for your vice to send across the room and off to hook heaven.
Eric
Wow, I must be really OCD about hook placement. I've popped exactly one hook in the last 18 years of using Regals.
Your supposed to buy 3 boxes for 25 dozen.
Jay you're just not trying
where is that cast in stone??
where did you get that from??
tie how many you want
Last edited by Normand; 07-26-2009 at 12:34 PM.
When fly fishing was first started you left before breakfast and stopped at the donut shop for a dozen donuts. The bakers diversified!
Thusly, flies by the dozen was born ....
Fortunately, for fisherman, in those days nobody was tying on a Regal!
Well, I didn't, Norm.
But it seems most folks talk about tying up a dozen. And you can run acrossed sales for a dozen...
And then there is this where I bid on a lot of 48 fly's (4 dozen).
So I was just pondering...
I know, and do occasionally just tye a few of this or that. And I tyed a single Royal Wollf that turned out more like a Royal woof it was so ugly.
Just wondering...
Sonny Edmonds
"If I don't teach them, how will those Grand Kids learn to fish?"
Lesson 1: What catches fish Vs: What catches fisherman's money.
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