Get Rich Quick

The river has been calling me recently. I'm told there are sockeye in there right now, and at this time of year there's always the chance of a steelhead or a big, summer-fat smallmouth.

So I googled "sockeye flies" out of curiosity. I found some beautiful little flies. And I found this.

So here's the get-rich-quick scheme. Buy up a bunch of these hooks--you can probably get them for a dime apiece or so. Our local sporting goods stores have racks of them. People like to wad their Powerbait on them for trout. Then tie on a couple strands of, oh, about anything, I suppose. Then sell them online for $1.75 a pop. Because, as the website says, "if they don't want green, they want red."

I wonder if anyone actually buys these? But, like they say, there's one born every minute.