LongsForCutts, from your post I gather the following: you WANT to make a living in the fly fishing industry but are finding it to be too difficult? You don't WANT to "have to do something else come winter"... cost of living where you WANT to be is too high ... you WANT people to pay you more for your flies, services, products... you think the owners of FAOL should "set up some sort of" way to channel money to you for the writing you've done on THEIR site...

Unless you are providing something on the internet which is significantly different from all the stuff which is available for "FREE", why would anyone pay for it?

I certainly WANT to just do things I love and have people compensate me at the level I THINK they should! Reality is quite different! I MUST do something which provides me the means to support myself and my family at an acceptable level.

To quote a good friend of mine... "Damn, dude..."