Donating Box of Materials

Bajema

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I’m not tying these days and haven’t for a while. I’m planning on hanging on to my vise and tools and hopefully will get back to it at some point in the future. I do have a bunch of materials though that should be turned into flies rather than sitting on a shelf. Thoughts on how best to offload them? I’d love for them to go to an organization that could use them for fly tying instruction or something, but I also just want to pass them on. I don’t want to piecemeal it out though, I’d like it to go as one lot.
 

Previous discussion with some ideas where to donate...
 
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I donated a 2 or 3 boxes of stuff to this organization


the guy from JBLM even offered to pick it up

lemme know if you’re interested and I’ll dig a little deeper for his email address
 
WWU had a college fly club at one point. Wonder if it still exists and if they do any tying.
 
Honestly man, as a horder of fly tying materials, and a guy thay can't go a day without tying a fly...what's up? I don't want your materials, i have more than my kids will ever be able to tie with if they wanted to tie flies, which they don't.

Not trying to call you out, just curious why you need a break?

@Bajema, I've seen you tie some sweet flies. I don't want to make any assumptions, but you need to be in the fly tying community.

We all know how much it takes get into fly tying, and how much time it takes. Don't give it up for anything. Make a compromise, make sure you know the person (even if it's your kid), how much fly tying time means to you, and why. And teach them too.

For me, fly tying is a way to be on the water, when you can't physically be there. I got 3 kiddos (16, 13, and 5), and as much as I have tried I haven't gotten any of them into fly fishing or tying. I've been super chill about it, hoping they will kind of find their way after my introduction...

I tie flies now, in the hopes that someday I will get to fish them That someday might be next week, or it might be the next decade (especially if it's a Crab or Shrimp!).

Anyways, keep your stuff, if you get a chance to tie, do it. If not after a decade, then yeah, hit us back up!
 
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Honestly man, as a horder of fly tying materials, and a guy thay can't go a day without tying a fly...what's up? I don't want your materials, i have more than my kids will ever be able to tie with if they wanted to tie flies, which they don't.

Not trying to call you out, just curious why you need a break?

@Bajema, I've seen you tie some sweet flies. I don't want to make any assumptions, but you need to be in the fly tying community.

We all know how much it takes get into fly tying, and how much time it takes. Don't give it up for anything. Make a compromise, make sure you know the person (even if it's your kid), how much fly tying time means to you, and why. And teach them too.

For me, fly tying is a way to be on the water, when you can't physically be there. I got 3 kiddos (16, 13, and 5), and as much as I have tried I haven't gotten any of them into fly fishing or tying. I've been super chill about it, hoping they will kind of find their way after my introduction...

I tie flies now, in the hopes that someday I will get to fish them That someday might be next week, or it might be the next decade (especially if it's a Crab or Shrimp!).

Anyways, keep your stuff, if you get a chance to tie, do it. If not after a decade, then yeah, hit us back up!
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Honestly man, as a horder of fly tying materials, and a guy thay can't go a day without tying a fly...what's up? I don't want your materials, i have more than my kids will ever be able to tie with if they wanted to tie flies, which they don't.

Not trying to call you out, just curious why you need a break?

@Bajema, I've seen you tie some sweet flies. I don't want to make any assumptions, but you need to be in the fly tying community.

We all know how much it takes get into fly tying, and how much time it takes. Don't give it up for anything. Make a compromise, make sure you know the person (even if it's your kid), how much fly tying time means to you, and why. And teach them too.

For me, fly tying is a way to be on the water, when you can't physically be there. I got 3 kiddos (16, 13, and 5), and as much as I have tried I haven't gotten any of them into fly fishing or tying. I've been super chill about it, hoping they will kind of find their way after my introduction...

I tie flies now, in the hopes that someday I will get to fish them That someday might be next week, or it might be the next decade (especially if it's a Crab or Shrimp!).

Anyways, keep your stuff, if you get a chance to tie, do it. If not after a decade, then yeah, hit us back up!
Thank you for this perspective. I guess the main reason is that I haven’t done much fishing in years and so I don’t have the need for flies, hence I haven’t been spending time tying flies.

Also, this was very nice to say
@Bajema, I've seen you tie some sweet flies. I don't want to make any assumptions, but you need to be in the fly tying community.
 
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