just looked at my lough box ,and realized how my collection has grown recently ,so with an average of 2-3 euro a fly , i must be nearly at the 1.5 grand mark ,show us whats yours worth
That's a very decent selection you have in your boxes. I probably have somewhere around 3 quarters of what you have but I do have additional boxes of sea trout & salmon flies in my posession, what price do they command?
thanks taffy its all one box 3 tier 6 shelfs, and thanks for the confidence boost ,regarding tying commercially , but alas its for me a hobbie ,and i dont sell any, i tie for my self out of the love and satisfaction it brings me ,id estimate 1800 -2000 euros given the time ,effort, learning, and price of materials at approx 2.50 a fly give me 2 grand andid think about it
thanks gek some are in 4s some are in 5s some are muddled some are jungle cock the books i bought
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irish may flies .stans on the lough ,peter flies of ireland etc etc all proven patterns
Yet we always want more.. I started ordering barbless flies in bits and pieces my wife said if one more feckin envelope comes through the door with flies in it.. I've spoken with postie he leaves them in a safe place..
Tying most of my own flies I dread to think how many I have. For a recent trip away from home I counted at last 15 fly boxes with at least 100 flies per box of which I probably only ever use 15 patterns if that. Yet still the collection grows!
I have neither the patience nor the inclination to start tying flies so my inventory is limited to those I bought with the belief they will catch a fish. At a guess I have about 100 to 150 flies. That makes the decision of what to take to the water an easy one.
I used to have thousands of flies that I never used. Now I have perhaps a few hundred, multiple sizes of a small number of patterns. I think it helps that I only fish rivers and streams - I no longer have all those wets and buzzers I used to hoard. I soon found other stuff to waste money on
I started taking photos of my flies but gave up....it's obscene the amount I have.....I'm guessing about 10,000 flies minimum..
Then you have all my son's, and the wife's....so another 10,000..
This is about 1/4 of my bright stuff....I've another 6 boxes . .nymphs, dries, snakes, etc ...
I still tie about 15 of a pattern every other night.....usually with a glass of something.......half I give to friends or kids starting out, the rest I put in the "stock boxes"....
There is no need....I know that but I've serious issues....addictive personality - same with anything.
I have a box where chuck my used flies to dry, I find it far easier to tie some more than to go into that box
They're not wasted as I generally give them someone who is just starting out.
There aren't many days that I don't tie a few flies. Anything from 2 up to 10 depending on what garbage my wife is watching on tv that I don't want to see. I've no idea how many flies I've got now, but it runs into many thousands.
In 1999, three weeks before my first steelhead trip to BC I was at a friend's house and when I went back to the car some motherless heap of walking AIDS had broken into my car and lifted my tackle bag. Reels, fly lines, odds & sods and 6 fly boxes containing around 1500 flies. I put in an insurance claim and had a visit from an assessor who wanted to know why I needed such expensive reels - they were Battenkills. She dismissed the 1500 flies as disposables despite the fact that they were worth over £1000 at retail price. I managed to get reels, lines and fly boxes replaced.
So, lose the box, but the contents are worthless. I'd have loved to see her argue the toss over a hundred Megan Boyd salmon flies at about £15 a chuck. See her call those "disposables!"
So if you had a collection of fine wines and expensive malts stolen you would be able to claim for the empty bottles and not the wine or whisky as they are “ disposable”.
Insurance companies? Don’t you just love em
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