It’s Cold. It’s Snowing… It’s Fly Tying Season. Would Somebody Please Order Prozac?
By Tom Chandler on Dec 21, 2007 in Fly Tying, Underground Entertainment
Fly tying season starts after the fishing season ends, but before the Prozac prescriptions for fly fishermen experiencing withdrawal are handed out like candy.
Like any psychotic disorder, fly tying tends to encourage obsessive behavior, and while we’d never suggest that the bloggers named below necessarily fall into that category, we would also caution you to shield the eyes of sensitive types and small children before scrolling any further.
It turns out that fly tying, my friends, is often unpretty.
The Daytripper Courts Organization… and Divorce
While you might think “unpretty” is a pretty strong word, how else do you describe the Daytripper’s recent attempt to completely catalog & rearrange his fly tying materials into some kind of logical system?
Has he not considered the damage done to the fly tying materials industry when tyers stop mistakenly buying two or three of every item because they’re aware they already have one at home? Is this the kind of economy-killing insanity we can look forward to from Daytripper?
Apparently not content to stifle our nation’s struggling economy, Alex even tempts divorce with an ill-advised plan to empty his wife’s file cabinet of valuable documents, converting it into fly tying materials storage.
They say you never see the bullet with your name on it, but any experienced fly tyer can see the Daytripper’s divorce papers hurtling his way.
RIP, Alex. You never saw it coming, but we did.
Tamanawis Does IT Again, and By “IT” We Mean “Goes Insane”
It’s never pretty when a fly tyer goes over the edge. Here we have a textbook case; Mike at Tamanawis isn’t content to simply organize his hooks or beads.
No siree, he steps wholly into the abyss with a Fly Tying Storage System Boldly Named: FARTS.
What was needed was a way to transport everything I could possibly need for any possible situation. Fluff, feathers, bobbins, the whole shebang. The system needed to be hardwearing, reliable, small and most importantly, easily transportable. Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present to you… the Far-reaching And Ridiculously Tenacious fly tying System (FARTS to you and I).
Following on the heels of his Stand of Majesty, his new system includes the Folders of Beauty, the Cube of Domination and the Boxes of Sublime Reason. (We suggest an addition: The Little White Pills of Sanity [prozac].)
Sure, we normally love that Tamanawis guy, but now, frankly, we’re a little afraid of him. Before it’s too late, we urge him to STOP THE MADNESS (and you can tell we mean it because we used capital letters).
See you in the looney bin, Tom Chandler.
Technorati tags: fly tying, fly fishing, fly tyer, tamanawis, daytripper blog, insane behavior
Smellslikefish | Dec 21, 2007 | Reply
As a completely altruistic suggestion on my part to save sanity and the economy concurrently, might I suggest that fishing is open year round in many locations; quit tying, buy your flies from a local shop and hit the river.
Of course this runs the risk of diminishing needs for mental health frauds er…meds causing economic harm to those truly altruistic entities; the pharmaceutical companies.
Tom Chandler | Dec 22, 2007 | Reply
Truly you have captured the spirit of the Holiday Season. Your concern for those less fortunate (big pharma) is a shining beacon for all to see and — if humanly possible — emulate.