"rw" wrote in message
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I'll say a favorite fly box full of your favorite flies for your favorite
water. Store-bought flies, self-tied flies, friend's flies --
productive flies that you have confidence in, even if you don't know the
names or remember the lineage of most of them.

Anything else can be replaced with a lot of money and a little trouble.

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Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

Hi all,
Robert from Melbourne, Australia here.

I lost my favourite C&F nymph fly box on the Eucumbene River up in the high
country one day trying to stalk some big browns late in the season. Had
about 280 assorted nymphs, mostly bought ones and a few that I tied. Spent
the best part of the day walking about 2 miles upstream and back, only
realised it was gone when I got back. I was spewing, we sorted thru the
first half mile of 2' 6" high grass then gave it a miss. Hopefully some
found it before they deteriorated and put them to good use.

Here's a link, nice spot.
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en...title&resnum=1