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It is speculation....chances are it will not last even 2 years...but, if it should, they want to have plenty of stock...stock that they can easily unload at cost if they are incorrect.

Well, aside from Wholesale Sports, Fishing Hole, Westwinds, and Fish Tales, I buy a number of items online (eBay, mostly), and at non-fishing shops, like Buckskin Leather (can't beat $4 rabbit skins), Beads and Plenty More (Northland Village...great glass bead selection),...and hit up hunters I know for spare fur and feathers. Craft shops also have some interesting finds for materials. It often pays to buddy-up with other tyers and split the cost on larger amounts (like 500 packs of hooks, or whole skins, etc).

One would think...but losing long-term buyers to some short term big profits is just bad business.

Whiting claimed to a local dealer that all their stock is spoken for to the end of 2013, so I figured that it had to be them. Hmm...no one I buy from has complained of being shorted yet....whichever farmers are doing that are going to regret it before long.

Where on facebook?

Whiting. Where's my star? Nah...it is fashion, and believe it or not, I am pretty connected to the industry....I would be very surprised if this fad is still hot 14 months from now....and the farmers will not be shorting the fly shops in favour of the fashion peeps, because they will want to stay on good terms with the people that will still be in the market for grizzly saddles 2 years down the road...after demand from hairdressers has dropped 99%.

Love this box, at the corner of 16th Ave and 5 St NE:

I have to agree....be willing to spend at least a good $170 for a Peak vise (at least, or better, $260 for a Griffin Mongoose)...the vises in the kits are serviceable, but hardly enjoyable to tie with. Plus, there are plenty of us on here that would be happy to hang out with you and tie, and even share a few materials, I am sure.

x3. That being said, prepare to replace any felt-soled boots before too long....there has been a lot of talk about the spread of Didymo in Western Canada lately, and every report and article I have read are blaming felt-soled wading boots as being 90%+ responsible, so I suspect that we will be adopting an Alaska-like law before too long. Currently, I am in the habit of giving my felt soles a 10 minute soak in 75ºC water with a couple capfuls of bleach in it between outings.....it is enough to kill any Didymo hanging on, without the need to ensure that the soles are bone-dry between wades.

Thinking on the earlier bacon-inspired posts: http://www.baconfestcanada.com/ Who is going?

I voted Islander, but I really do also like Loop, Sage, Hardy, and Ross, too.

Been tying a lot of golden stones this past couple of weeks using MFC Etha-Wing instead of feather for the wings....it is pretty good stuff, but not inexpensive. Picked up some plastic drawer units from Canadian Tire to hold more of my mats, and they are working out very nicely.

Very nice...congratulations on that one!

Wow...damned impressive...grats!

All bull trout, of course....and I hope you were using a 6-hook rig...on three rods....

Very impressive...congratulations!

As a zoologist and a fly-angler that is very law-abiding, if I spot anyone tearing down a fence to access a protected area, I will lay into them myself....there is no excuse for this sort of behaviour. I should hate to think that CCTV cams might be necessary to arrest this, but if they are, I had better not see anyone I know on them...

Very nice...I am all envious now (with my little dining table covered in materials)! Guess I am going to have to learn to use some woodworking tools.

Very nice...just what I am hoping to do...can you provide some details on measurements, and what you used to make some of the routered bits, etc (I am no woodworker, so this sort of thing is not so obvious to me)?

Very nice. What did you use on the fly that is on the left of the last pic...it has some really nice iridescence.

Heh,,it does look kind of like that when flattened out for the photo...but trust me, it does look like worms.

Hmmm...the photo posting gods are apparently not your friend. Here is a 'Gob O Worms' from a couple of nights ago (first one I have tied) after seeing it on a site the other day:

Really sucks...he was so young and such a great and innovative tyer.

Try using imagecave and just copy and paste the EZ Code.

Found this an interesting read, even if it does not come to a conclusive ending: http://www.calpaddle.com/calpaddle/forums/...420&start=1