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Wbranch | February 13th, 2013, 10:02 am | |
York & Starlight PA Posts: 2733 | Sorry for posting my picture here relative to the "Fly Boxes" thread but when I post in the regular forum my pictures come up thumbnail size and don't enlarge when you click on them. This is most of my fly boxes although I know there are two boxes of Clouser minnows and one box of Sucker spawn, Glo-bugs, and Blood dots down in my closet in the garage but was just too lazy to go get them. | |
Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years. | ||
Feathers5 | February 13th, 2013, 10:05 am | |
Posts: 287 | You better start tying, buddy, it looks like your short a few flies for the new year. Ha! Ha! I know how they add up for sure. My boxes would cover a queen size bed. Bruce PS. Don't your dry fly hackels get matted in those C & F style boxes? | |
Wbranch | February 13th, 2013, 10:26 am | |
York & Starlight PA Posts: 2733 | Bruce, "PS. Don't your dry fly hackels get matted in those C & F style boxes?" No, because I never put winged dries in the swing leaf page and all the dries in the front and rear, deeper, covers are no larger than #16 and most are #18 - #22. I just hate it when I smash delicate CDC or turkey flat wings or bend nicely split microfibbet tails. I never crowd the flies into the compartments of the Dewitt boxes. I try and nor put more than 6 - 8 #14's and less as the hook size gets bigger. | |
Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years. | ||
Oldredbarn | February 13th, 2013, 11:15 pm | |
Novi, MI Posts: 2608 | Damn Matt! I'm not so surprised about the number of flies there, but you are so organized! I am impressed sir...I could use a little of that in my fly tying life. Ok I could use alot. Spence | |
"Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively "Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood | ||
Wbranch | February 14th, 2013, 5:28 am | |
York & Starlight PA Posts: 2733 | Spence wrote, "I'm not so surprised about the number of flies there, but you are so organized! I am impressed sir." Yep, I'm very fastidious about the appearance of all my boxes and especially the C&F boxes. Two reasons; when friends are around and I open it they always anxious to grab the boxes out of my hands and oogle all my handiwork and admittedly I get pleasure from that. The other reason being since the very design of the rows and slits lends itself to at least some organization I can load the boxes hatch specific and by life cycle stage. Say 3 rows for nymphs, 4 rows for emergers, 4 rows for duns, and 3 rows for spinners. Then as I expend flies I'll see what empty slits need to be re-filled. I also just enjoy organizing the boxes over the winter when I'm not fishing. | |
Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years. | ||
Falsifly | February 14th, 2013, 2:21 pm | |
Hayward, WI. Posts: 661 | Yep, I'm very fastidious about the appearance of all my boxes Matt, you have once again exposed yourself.....(♍) | |
Falsifly When asked what I just caught that monster on I showed him. He put on his magnifiers and said, "I can't believe they can see that." | ||
Wbranch | February 14th, 2013, 2:47 pm | |
York & Starlight PA Posts: 2733 | "Matt, you have once again exposed yourself.....(♍)" Yes, I was a closet fly freak but now I've come out and you all know the truth of my afflictions! | |
Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years. | ||
Jmd123 | February 14th, 2013, 11:07 pm | |
Oscoda, MI Posts: 2611 | Matt, your level of organization AND productivity are both impressive! Looks like you are ready for anything and everything! Truth be known, I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum - I work out of maybe 6-8 fly boxes during any given year. But, they are all flies that work for my local conditions and I don't have the income to do much travelling these days. I assume that every box in there has found some use to you on some day within the past few years...or are you just padding your collection to impress us? ;oD Jonathon | |
No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere... | ||
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