Help, I cant stop!

[slimyrock]

A month ago I joined the site to get the scoop on fly tying and info on fly fishing. Well i got the tools and materials to tie flies and I hinestly have to tell you, I am addicted.
I started out doing the flies that were in the book that came with the kit. Then I went on line and started doing flies from the online tutorials. Then I started to make variations on streamers. I just can't put the bobbin down.
Today I found myself going through my tackle box and picking out old beat up rooster tails and re-tying the buck tails, and adding tails to some old Swiss Kings that I own.
Is there no end to this madness? LOL
Jim

 

[yea-who]

I'm at the point that My son's stuffed animals are missing.

Trying to figure out how i can get my hands on that garbage man's jacket.

Collecting hair from the barber.

I notice things around and say to myself boy that would be great dubbing, or hackle etc.

The other day i was at a friends house and his wife started brushing the cat, i broke into a cold sweat and started shaking. LoL

Wait it get worst. I'm into to furled leaders now and it gets worst.

At my cabin i wrapped 1" copper tubing around the coal stove smoke stack that goes into the chimney, like a bugger body, with a 2 foot tag end on both sides. and put a release valve where the cold enters the coil, so if it backs up, well it don't make it to the pump. All because of a bugger. For the first time in 30+ years there is hot water.

The other day i stopped by my friend resturaunt. To long of a story but the bottom line of it is he asked me if i knew how to tie a knot, i F*$#in half hitched it.

Its not an addiction, its a disease.

 

[flipnfly]

jim no there is no end you just have to buy materials in moderation try craft stores that will save ya some money stay away from pipe cleaners they rust

 

[slimyrock]

Ah umm The undercoat from an American Eskimo (which I own) ......great dubbing...............I'm doomed.

 

[littlelehigh]

Oh it'll end for me one day when the wife kills me. The other day she looked under my tying desk and said look at all these little dust balls I just cleaned. I said don't throw them out I was wondering where that dubbing got to!

 

[Fishidiot]

Jim,
Great stuff eh?
Glad to see you're "re-tying" your roostertails. If you've been a long time fisher of conventional gear, you'll find your new found fly tying prowess has applications for spin fishing too. While the overwhelming time I'm fishing freshwater I'm FFing, I "tie" a lot of stuff for spin fishing too - esp saltwater applications. You can make some excellent hair jigs as well as in-line spinners in sizes suitable for small stream trout up to muskies.
Enjoy your addiction.

 

[slimyrock]

Fishidiot, Hey funny you should mention that. Because today I was tying up some jigs. I had dozens of #8 and # 6 jigs I had got some time ago for practically nothing. They were pretty much useless, and had a cheap little propeller type spinner and a bead on them. So I broke the props off and tied some fur, hair and flash on them. Some guys are going to meet over the lake in a couple of weeks to introduce me to ice fishing; I figured I would hand them out there and give them a try.

 

[rudeone]

So glad to know that I am not alone in my additction.

 

[jrcll]

a few years ago we where slow at work so i was even taking my travel tying kit to work and tying there,

 

[Zemenar12]

Hello,
My name is Bill-and I am a fly tying addict.

 

[slimyrock]

Hello Bill, I too, am addicted to fly tying.