A Complete Waste of Space

.....stocking a friend's fly shop with specials

The OCD in me finds this image particularly disturbing. Why the fuck didn't you start in the top left corner?

I just tie them, the shop owner sorts them into boxes. He just gets 1, 2 or 3 dozen in a tub, and a shipping box full of such condiment tubs.
Not sure my man Bruce has your OCD. He just wants folks to wander to the back of the shop where the expensive shit is, and maybe buy some of these flies(he gets $1.25 more for mine than the standard $1.75 per for run-of-the mill stuff). The real payoff comes when someone gets distracted by a $400 reel, pair of waders, $700 rod, etc.

that is actually pretty cool.

thanks. No one should ever try and do this as a sole income. I calculated at my wife's request, what I would make in a 50 hour workweek tying flies. It came to like $11 per hour, and I am sort of well known and get top dollar. This entire project was a matter of trying to take a friend's struggling shop start up to a more stable level. One, he's a friend of 30 years. Second, his shop is on the road to where I like to go trout fishing, so a shop NEEDS to be there. I'm not done yet. He's gotten 74 dozen flies so far from me, and another 36 are in process. I take the ones that don't pass my inspection for me and my buddies. They still work, even if a wing is crooked or the tail is too sparse.

Looks like a nice afternoon arvos work Slick

now i've got "take me to the river" stuck in my head!