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

[Bamboozle]

114

[buckeyetier]

122

a ridiculous number of

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[PaulM]

210

[Jax]

Why??

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I'm a much better Fly fisher when talking fishing, than when I'm Actually Fly fishing!

[Royal Wulff]

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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[ducksterman]

Were you the winner?

[barel fly]

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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