I'll be 88 next week. I no longer fly fish but still enjoy tying flies and even continue with a tying club I started many years ago when I taught classes.
What I have is multi-hundreds of assorted trout flies but no sets of dozens of any particular fly.
Big name volunteer groups seem more interested in cash contributions or active guys to lead fishing trips. This is fine but it doesn't help solve my problem.
If I give my flies to newbie tiers it will only discourage them from tying their own. The closest I've come to a solution was to offer guys streamside at a very popular fly-fishing only spot to "pick out a bunch" from my box. These guys obviously responded but should really be tying their own.
Does anyone have a suggestion?