Well it’s strange, but this is the first year Santa didn’t deliver ANY FF stuff to our address. He probably checked earlier and saw that I already had Waders, hippers, 5 fly rods. four reels, a small assortment of various wts fly line, several full fly boxes, leaders ( some gifted furled) etc, a vise and materials I haven’t the skill to use. So what else can someone who fly fishes only about three or four weeks a year including a fish-in or two possibly need, NOTHING, so he acted accordingly. Happily though, he didn’t use the same deductive reasoning in the area of sweaters,jackets,shirts, socks, single malt and pocket flask. Life is STILL good.
Is it safe to assume (yes, I know) that I was to only one here on FAOL who was so UN-fly fishingly treated by Santa ??.
I must have been a VERY good boy this year. Santa brought me a Canon PowerShot A570 IS camera! Now, I need to get to work on an area to photograph flies.
Steve
No fly fishing or tying stuff this year for me this year. My wife did not get any quilting stuff either.
I ‘do’ fly fishing/tying and my wife ‘does’ quilting and we both are very tolerant of each others hobbies (money wise), so we decided that neither of our hobbies REALLY needed more for Christmas.
So we ended up getting a nice 32" lcd hd tv for the living room, a nice small 17" lcd tv for her quilting room - as her old one bounced off the moving truck when we were unloading it and I got a nice book shelf type radio/cd player for the tying/computer room. All were discontinued models at super low prices we just couldn’t pass up.
It’s kinda funny, most nights I’m in my computer/tying room all night long and she is in her quilting room. We meet in the hallway or kitchen when we re-stock up on drinks or munchies. We plan a movie night around the delivery of NetFlix, but mostly we are in our respective rooms enjoying our hobbies.
I go to quilt shows and shops with her (you can find a lot of tying stuff there) and she does go to the fly shops with me.
This morning I found an 8.5 ft 5wt Orvis T3 with a matching Battenkill Disc reel…was told I have to supply my own line…that’s pretty sweet (from my daughter)
I got seat covers for my truck and a steering wheel cover. kids got me some underwear and socks, and for fishing and camping a very warm insulated shirt and a rainsuit that breaths. yea I am a happy camper
This is the least amount of FF stuff I’ve gotten since I started 8 years ago. I got 2 spools of H & H tippet (one mono, one flouro.) and asked for some goose biots. My wife asked “How many ounces”? I said, “I dunno, what are the options”? She says “Anywhere from once ounce to a full pound”. I say “Awwww, six ounces ought to be enough, no sense in getting a full pound”. I opened up the gift this morning and, wow! I never knew biots were so light. There must be somewhere between 1000 -1300 biots altogether. Schaaaawweeeeeet. Now to learn some good dying methods, especially getting varying shades of olives and greens.
I got many excellent gifts, but only a couple related to fly fishing…gift card & wall plaque. My best gift was playing all day with 7 Grandchildren…mostly with my 2 roughneck shadows, 3 year old Tori & 2 year old Connor. Oh, Connor & sisters Tia & Erika have a new 8 week old Labradoodle puppy, Addie, who thoroughly enjoyed helping Connor repeatedly pounce on my head as I lay on the floor. You just have to love kids & puppies!
Now we’re back home & I’m POOPED!..I’m about to pop open a beer, curl up in my recliner with my new oversized double fleece throw (fisherman print on 1 side) that my baby daughter Maggie made me, & fall asleep…ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Mike
My son Joseph gave me an outdoor theme wall clock and also the most special gift of 3 framed 8x10 photos of him climbing Mt. Hood last summer. The bottom photo is my favorite, because it shows him jumping over a glacial stream. We also went to see the movie “National Treasure” and I thought it was a very good family movie.
Doug
No fly fishing stuff at all. Got lots of goodies tho. One thing of note was an ice maker Santa brought my wife. For the first 3 hours it made a bucket and a half of ice. Which, forgive the pun was cool. Then for some reason it started to melt all the ice eventually making the water quite hot, about 120degrees F before we noticed it and shut it off. Now all it does is heat the water instead of cool it. how strange is that. Its going back.
Gnu Bee;
It’s only a guess, here, but I think 'Ol Santa got his list mixed up and INSTEAD, of bringing your bride the “ice maker”, he must have dropped off; Ron Popeil’s-as seen on TV, “The Al Gore Global Warming Demo Machine”!?!
Like I said, it’s only a guess, but…
