fishinwrench Posted April 8, 2018 Posted April 8, 2018 Why don't you get some heat down there so that girl doesn't have to wear so many clothes. 👌
BilletHead Posted April 8, 2018 Posted April 8, 2018 7 hours ago, ness said: The other thing... This ness’ lady chick is a trooper. We spent our Saturday night down in the cave learning to tie Wooly Buggers. Talk about stick-to-it-tiveness! This girl’s got it. Now, she did request I keep her flies for myself and tie some for you all, and I will probably honor that request. But, that said, it was fun to teach and it was fun to have a willing student. Like I said, this girl’s a trooper! Man cave is what you call it? I am thinking it looks like you are keeping her in the basement sweat shop making her tie you flies. , BilletHead ness 1 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
fshndoug Posted April 8, 2018 Posted April 8, 2018 Cabelas and Bass pro flyfishing sections both suck .I have more stuff at my house.K&K carries quality stuff.Too bad Feathercraft isn't in Kansas City,although I would be broke. ness and BilletHead 2
tjm Posted April 8, 2018 Posted April 8, 2018 7 hours ago, fshndoug said: Cabelas and Bass pro flyfishing sections both suck .I have more stuff at my house.K&K carries quality stuff.Too bad Feathercraft isn't in Kansas City,although I would be broke. Funny, I was just walking around Cabela's fly section last evening and thinking I was surprised at all the stuff they did have. Most of it stuff that I would rarely need, but a feller could sure tie a bunch of patterns with what they have. They did not have any CGR rods though and I wanted to fondle one of those.
ness Posted April 9, 2018 Author Posted April 9, 2018 14 hours ago, tjm said: Funny, I was just walking around Cabela's fly section last evening and thinking I was surprised at all the stuff they did have. Most of it stuff that I would rarely need, but a feller could sure tie a bunch of patterns with what they have. They did not have any CGR rods though and I wanted to fondle one of those. I was looking for Whiting Bugger Packs and they didn't have them. I think they have a lot of stuff, just never enough -- seems like every time I go there I can't find something I want. I bought about 20 flies from there a few weeks ago, and each one had a tiny little tag with a bar code and the poor checkout lady couldn't get about half of them to read, and the other half took quite a while to get lined up just right so they could get scanned. Silly. John
fshndoug Posted April 9, 2018 Posted April 9, 2018 Maybe they have added some products since the last time I was there as it was pretty poor selection at the time.
tjm Posted April 9, 2018 Posted April 9, 2018 It may be different in different stores as well, the only Cabela's I've ever seen is the Rogers store. Tiny bar codes on tiny flies looks silly, no doubt, I didn't know they were hard to scan. I imagine the loose fly inventory is hard to track in such large open store, 15-20 times I've wandered around that store since they opened it and I have never seen an employee working the fly department. Guess the apparent disregard of the area plus the poor lighting added to my astonishment at the variety of materials and tools on show. I noticed they did not have a great selection of hackle, but they did have enough to keep an average dyi tyer going. I had to do a search on the "bugger packs" ; always bought necks or saddles, thought maybe this was loose or strung feathers, so I would not have known they should have them. Cabela's is more of a window shopping place for me, I still have a gift card from Christmas to spend there and have yet to see anything that just says "take me now", Things I want from the catalog are never in the store, so its always kinda disappointing to go there expecting to buy something, but if I go just to see it is a pleasant visit. Oh, and yes, support your local fly shop; Tim has got about all my actual fishing/tying money ever since he left the RR Lodge and started on his own. Anything the independent shops don't have they will normally get if you ask.
ness Posted April 9, 2018 Author Posted April 9, 2018 Tim’s is a great shop and I always go there when at RR even if I don’t really need anything. 10 or more years ago I was in there with my then-young boys, he gave each of them a pair of hemostats. They still remember that. He has shipped stuff to me before too. tjm 1 John
ness Posted April 10, 2018 Author Posted April 10, 2018 The BilleHead’s flies have arrived. Now, off to get the Jaws of Life and extricate these beauties! BilletHead 1 John
Flysmallie Posted April 10, 2018 Posted April 10, 2018 Talk about an asskiss overachiever. I still need to get busy. fishinwrench 1
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