“For a good 20 minutes.

That’s how long it took to Super Glue bits and pieces of duck feather wings to both my thumbs, spill a bag of #6 hooks on the carpet, and string several dozen yards of thread around the living room. Plus, in the course of ‘relaxing’ with my hobby I managed to terrorize my children with an assortment of yells and screams associated with the frustration of trying to create rather poorly designed flies of such quality they wouldn’t fool a carp.

I gave up after figuring out the cost of store-bought flies, coming to the realization they were more affordable than blood-pressure medication. I put the kit back in the attic.

That’s right, I kept the kit. After all, you can’t just throw this stuff away.”   (Darrell Pendergrass, Superior Telegram)