Carter Simcoe
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Sounds good and I can show you how to tie most of the primary nymphs and stuff for Arkansas trout waters, but yeah I mostly do streamers and stuff for warm and saltwaters.
Fly tying doesn’t have to be expensive to start out with, it might snowball quickly but you can get up and going for a relatively minimal amount of $$$.
I started tying pretty quickly and I don’t have any regrets but do keep in mind that you probably won’t save any money.
No don’t worry, I know your just getting started on this and are trying to figure out the lay of the land.
Zach, Don’t forget the sealed clutch/synthetic disc reels that are so popular today.
Steve, I’ve been talking to Zach about this via PM.
This talk about the magazines needing to be responsible for exposing faults in gear and the issue of CEO’s and bonuses is making it sound like we are talking about the auto industry or something. The flyfishing industry is nowhere close to that level, they produce a relatively low amount of equipment a year and these days its of suprising quality anyway. Even just looking at internet buzz, whats the last piece of high end gear you can think of that has been pronounced a lemon by most people using it?
Bad gear simply isn’t being put out there these days. I’ve got my favorites, we all do I’m sure, but the other stuff isn’t bad by any means its just not for me. I’m sure they could invest more money into R&D but I’m not sure it would have much of a noticable effect and the consumer is just going to wind up paying for it. I’m happy with where the industry is right now and where it seems to be heading. Really, go out there and try to find a piece of non-kmart gear thats of genuinly bad quality.
You do your thing and I’ll do mine Jackster, but I don’t know why we need to be publicly rolling our eyes at others around here.
