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you know you're a fly fisherman when....

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#1 ·
You have holes in your waders but you go anyways

You zap-a-gap flies to your fingers

You have worn flies for earings (unintentionally)

You have been in trouble for spending more time with the fish than your wife/girlfriend

you refuse to buy THE ring because it would cut into your fishing budget


.....Keep it going.....
 
#52 ·
When you are a metalhead (in a music sense, not fish) and in a metal band and people laugh at you when you say you are going flyfishing before the show.

When you pick up a dead phesant along the road to keep the feathers.

When your mom yells at you because there are pices of pink marabou floating around the house, down staris from the fly tying bench.

When you write your college admissions essay on fly fishing.

When you wake up wide awake at 5 am to go fishing, but sleep in and miss first period on a school day.


Ok so maybe those are just me.
 
#55 ·
You build a resort that caters mostly to fly fishermen/women, just so you can literally eat, breath, work, and sometimes sleep flyfishing.

That, while researching your resort, you make some concessions on traffic count, business profile, and cost of real estate just so you can put your resort within a double haul of your favorite water.

When you are helping your little boy with his homework, you use fly fishing problems like; If you tie a 70' running line to a 20' shooting head, how long is your fly line? Just so he will grow up a flyfisherman too, and be able to row for you when you get to old to row for him.

When stuck in rush hour traffic, you go to your happy place to keep your sanity, and then have to explain to your wife that the reason why you were an hour late getting home was because you pulled out of traffic and went to the fly shop to calm down and recoup, before finishing the drive.
 
#63 ·
-you move to a knew town and drive through freezing rain to find out where the good fishing spots are near Vancouver,WA. (before changing your drivers license of unpacking any of your stuff).

-you find women wearing waders a turn on, but figure "a woman like that must be with someone"

-you question whether you can be considered a real flyfisherman or still "just a rookie" till you read this list.
 
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