The wife is really on to me now.

[Gary C.]

I don't know about the rest of you but the less my wife has known about my, lets just say general investment in fly fishing the better. Don't get me wrong she is not clueless and knows that all those rods, float tubes, fins, waders, nets, vests, packs, were not free. I also get the occasional email at work when she gets the Amazon notice about another shipment on the way to our house.

Anyhow, today I'm getting ready to make a run up the 14 in the morning and a buddy who is going with me and has me teaching him to fly fish is over. We had just come back from WalMart so that my buddy john could p/u some items for tomorrows trip. BTW: My local WalMart recently put in a decent little fly section for the middle of the desert. So john is showing my wife what he bought and he shows her a few of the boxes of flies that he purchased and snivels about having to pay $5.25 for each box of 5 flys.

Forward ahead about an hour and my wife walks out into the garage and see 7-8 full fly boxes opened up for John to see. Now being as how my wife is an accountant it didn't take her very long at all to figure out that just one side of one of the boxes had over 100 flies and..... Well you can guess how happy she was to know that I had just bought another box of 5 midges for myself while we were there. I tried to explane about how cheap I buy them from STP but that I have to buy a dozen at a time to get the good prices or how much cheaper it is to buy on-line. All I have to say is that I'm really looking forward to finding some water tomorrow and maybe even breaking the cherry on my new 1wt.

Thank goodness she has no clue how much the flys that were bought from the local flyshops cost.

[teejay]

My wife is just glad that I don't keep live bait in the fridg anymore

[BrownBear]

You make me glad I married so well. My wife grew up behind the counter of her family's sporting good store. She thinks all this stuff is normal and a great investment!

Down side is that most things from fly rods to shotguns to muzzleloaders have a very short life span in my hands. If she tries it an likes it, it's hers! "Looks like you need to buy another for yourself" is her favorite line.

[WanderingBlues]

“My biggest fear is one day my wife will sell my gear for what I told her I paid for it...”
~Anonymous

[lucfish]

BUSTED. It's only a matter of time. I had a friend take a part time job to feed his habit, self defeating, then he didn't have time to go fishing.

[1mocast]

LOL.

How much is the price of your sanity worth?

[Gary C.]

It's nice to know that at least you guys understand my situation. But then I knew that you would.

[Gary C.]

Someone asked me about flies from Sierra Trading Post. I check their email prices often to get the good deals and when something I "need" come up cheap I order.

Right now at STP. Montana Fly Co., Adams dry fly, $9.99 a dozen.
https://www.sierratradingpost.com/monta ... es~d~94%2F

https://www.sierratradingpost.com

[John Harper]

shotguns to muzzleloaders have a very short life span in my hands. If she tries it an likes it, it's hers! "Looks like you need to buy another for yourself" is her favorite line.

And there's not much you can do when she's holding one of those.

John

[k9mark]

Check these guys out: http://www.flydealflies.com/

[Gary C.]

Check these guys out: http://www.flydealflies.com/

Thanks, great prices for sure. I May need more boxes.

[stanbery]

Gary

That is funny.

Hope you had a good trip to the Kern.

Jon