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?
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(Just curious)
(Hey! We are limited to 10 images! Something stinkith to high heaven.) :lol:
You can’t post a dozen fly’s!
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
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
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. 8T 
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:D
where is that cast in stone??
where did you get that from??
tie how many you want
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! :lol:
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…
I’ve popped a few off of my Mongoose, but only really tiny ones like < #18s. Otherwise, it does a great job holding hooks.
A dozen is just a standard number, for everything from donuts, to pencils, to clothes pins, etc…
The only reason I tie by the dozen is that I am in a lot of Fly Swaps, and most swaps have 12 people in them.
When I tie for myself, I usually just tie up a few in each size and color.
Sonny, I guessing my tying 12 to get it right might have some merit? :lol:
Jim
When I tie for myself, I usually just tie up a few in each size and color.
On that note, just how many do most of you tie at a spell?
Call it ADD, but if I tie more than 5 or 6 in a row of the same fly it gets terribly tedious. Even something as simple as a color change keeps my mind in it, so usually I will tie minor variations of the same tie.
Example: I’ve been tying up a great lakes steelhead assortment for a friend who’s currently in Iraq. That means alot of eggs, but for me to sit and tie several dozen eggs, I tied a few of each color, some with and some without a flashy tail.
Its nymphs that really get me. When I tie pheasant tails, I usually only tie 5-6, whatever I could imagine going through on the next trip I’m making. I build up a stockpile from the ones I dont manage to lose.
I dunno…sometimes the ugly ones work better than the pretty ones. I have botched a few up my time, but rather than waste them, I fished with them, hoping to lose them, and thus provide them with an honorable death. However, almost without fail, they all caught fish, and did it well.
It must be true that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
“It must be true that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.”
Oh Man! And here I thought it was Beauty is in the eyes of the beer holder. :lol:
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Originally Posted by fivedials View Post
Sonny, I guessing my tying 12 to get it right might have some merit?
Jim
Gigmaster thats what I was thnking, I liked what fivedials posted…lol Ya get the hang of tying them somewhere within the 12, so you think about disregarding the others that don’t look right until you get out on the water and find out that the ones that don’t look right will catch fish too, and then, they don’t look so bad after all …lol
It’s all simple math: thusly-
25 hooks in a pack
12-number it takes to tie it correctly
12-number of correctly tied flies for the swap
1-extra fly for the swapmeister
Hence 25 per pack - VOILA!
Pack of 50 = 2 swaps
Pack of 100 = 4 swaps and so on…
Leave it to the Senior Member from VA to set us all staight. I love it, it explains it all to a T.