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Author Topic: The eyes are going....  (Read 694 times)

Offline Huntschool

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The eyes are going....
« on: May 21, 2011, 07:59:00 PM »
Went to the work shop this afternoon to crest and fancy up some new arrows.....

When I got ready to start painting some of those "tiny lines" I realized I could not focus on the area no matter how I tilted my head to look through the very bottom of my bifocals....

Hell, I am going blind....  Lucky I had one of those swing arm magnifier lighted thingies....

Getting old is killing me....
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Re: The eyes are going....
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2011, 08:06:00 PM »
Thats funny, I might need a magnifier to tie on a 24 griffith gnat to 7x this year. But, im goin down kicking and screaming!
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Re: The eyes are going....
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2011, 08:24:00 PM »
I hear you, Huntschool.  Getting there fast myself.
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Re: The eyes are going....
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2011, 08:33:00 PM »
Pauljr:  If its smaller than an 18 I need help with double glasses but I get the job done....

Good thing on the warm water side out here I can get away with 12-14 stuff.....
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Re: The eyes are going....
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2011, 08:39:00 PM »
Huntschool come to Pa, ill show you some world class fly fishn, but ya cant tell anyone where.
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Re: The eyes are going....
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2011, 09:40:00 PM »
That would be nice.  I never fished too much in PA back in the day... Fished the upper Deleware, Neversink, Schorie, Willowemoc, etc. and the Flat Brook in NJ...  oh, by the way I grew up in NJ.  My cousin was a big FFF guy....

Got the MO cold water and the East TN and NC stuff out here.
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Re: The eyes are going....
« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2011, 09:54:00 PM »
I'm beyond help, had real good eye site at one time, at least I think I did, see that's not all that goes.

Try some 100% organic Goji berry juice, it does help.

Good luck.
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Re: The eyes are going....
« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2011, 10:18:00 PM »
I'm old too.

I can still see where to put the key in my pickup,
I still see where my son's food goes and my wife is still pretty..

Is that good enough?
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Re: The eyes are going....
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2011, 10:22:00 PM »
By the way, I tied my own flies when I fished Silver Creek in southern Idaho 20 years ago...

Size 28 Tricho's. Does that get me in the club?
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Re: The eyes are going....
« Reply #9 on: May 21, 2011, 10:32:00 PM »
Ha!
I got you beat with a 36 Petit!

Killdeer   :saywhat:
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Re: The eyes are going....
« Reply #10 on: May 21, 2011, 10:38:00 PM »
OK, you win.

But, how long did it take you to tie one on when the spinner fall was happenin' ?
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Re: The eyes are going....
« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2011, 10:45:00 PM »
I don't tie one on as often as I did when I was younger.

Killdeer

(Oh, and reel flyfishers don't mention spinners.)

Or DO they?
 
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Re: The eyes are going....
« Reply #12 on: May 21, 2011, 10:49:00 PM »
REAL fly fishers know that spinners don't mean spinners.  :)
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Re: The eyes are going....
« Reply #13 on: May 21, 2011, 10:51:00 PM »
Killy,
nice photo... brings me back to that magical hour about 10 am, just sitting and waiting, until the big ones start to go crazy.
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Re: The eyes are going....
« Reply #14 on: May 21, 2011, 11:01:00 PM »
This spinner was on the door of my seedy tourist cabin in West Virginia. Closing up to leave and I had to put it all down and take a pic. North Fork of the South branch of the Potomac. Or vice-versa...

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Re: The eyes are going....
« Reply #15 on: May 21, 2011, 11:01:00 PM »
Take heart my friend..... at least you can still see all those 140-160" P & Y's walking around in the backyard !!!

I hear ya though, having to carry my readers with me most of the time now. Sucks getting old and blind.
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Re: The eyes are going....
« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2011, 11:15:00 PM »
Well, you know I do have very large mule deer walking around within the city limits. Just can't hunt them.

But they pose nice during the drive around after brunch.
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Re: The eyes are going....
« Reply #17 on: May 22, 2011, 09:29:00 AM »
I guess we all have it to "look" forward to (no pun)

I am going to try and finish the cresting work today thanks to the magnifier thing.  Kind of a pain in the butt to have to manipulate it and the brush and the paint and the speed etc....

Cams:  There was a potential P&Y on the pond dam yesterday afternoon... yep, in the middle of the day.
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Re: The eyes are going....
« Reply #18 on: May 22, 2011, 10:39:00 AM »
Huntskool, try doubling up on your reading glasses, or buy an OptiVisor. I have taken to using the latter while fletching, and need it and mild readers for beading. This will free your hands.

My eyesight used to be a thing of admiration and envy.
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Re: The eyes are going....
« Reply #19 on: May 22, 2011, 11:00:00 AM »
Killy:

Yep.. got the "visors" just too pridefull to use them all the time I guess.  This thing works good I just have to get confy with it.  Still use double ups for the fly stuff...
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