Fly Fishing Trivia
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This was an interesting trivial question on fly fishing. I was listening to a local sports radio channel here in the Missouri Ozarks last Friday, and they had a sport trivia show where callers could win prizes for the most correct questions answered. Most of their questions are on baseball, football, hockey, etc, but they had one on fly fishing. The question was “How many flys does the average fly fisher own?” The supposedly correct answer was 2000. I may have mistaken the answer or question [old age hasn’t been kind to my ears], but the guy repeated the answer twice. Now, I don’t know where the statistics came from, but over 167 dozen is a lot of flys for anyone other than someone who ties professionally and or owns a fly shop. After tying up four dozen assorted wooly buggers last night, I sat down and took a rough count in all my boxes out of curiosity. I would be hard-pressed to claim even close to 1000, let alone 2000. Am I just not the average Joe, or was that station DJ just full of it?
I went fishing today (mid winter here) and had to sort my way through probably 30 boxes of bass and trout flies (this is not counting my saltwater flies) to find the flies I wanted and there’s easily 3,000 all together. You’re just not old enough to have built up enough of a stash Zach. The age of the average fly fisherman is probably in his 40’s so you have a few more years to get together a respectable number.
This is strange spam guys. This guy actually wrote that but that is obviously a spam post. I’m going to blank out the links from his post and delete his account, but leave this thread.
We’ve been getting a couple spam threads a day lately; getting close to time for a forum upgrade.
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