Fly Boxes

On 4 Apr 2006 08:29:20 -0700, "Big Dale" wrote:


Dave LaCourse wrote:
As jeff miller and others know, I tend to get wet when I fly fish. I
take chances when I shouldn't and often get my fly boxes immersed.
This means I have to dry them out, and even then, some of the flies
rust. I don'[t mind getting wet, but it kills me when my flies do.

I don't seem to have a problem with flies rusting. I figure that if I
use them then they will get wet. I simply put the used flies in the ash
tray of the black pickup and they dry out there. Then I put them in
whatever cheap ass box I found that I could buy for less than a buck.
If the flies are looking pretty ratty, then I clean them up and use
hemostats to make them all purdy by holding them in the steam from a
teakettle.

It may not be too refined, but it works for this redneck.

Big Dale

It works for me too, BD. However, if I take a dunking (I will) and
all the flies in all the boxes I have in my vest get wet, I have to
take the time to dry them out.

The flies that I use obviously get wet, and I dry them on a fly patch
attached to my vest, and put them in the appropriate box at the end of
the day (or the following morning). Don't have any trouble with that,
only when I take a dunking and get *all* of them wet. Then it becomes
a pain in the arse.

Dave