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too many options
Do you ever feel that bringing along too many boxes of flies is bad. I have sixteen boxes and my last FF trip I felt that I was trying to make too many choices. I have limited myself to eight boxes with just the patterns that I can use throughout an entire weekend of fishing. Do you ever find that having too many choices makes you a worse fisherman?
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I bring as few flies as possible. For instance, when I go carp-fishing I bring two home-made Altoids fly boxes. One of flies that look like bugs, one for flies that look vegitation. No more. When I'm going after trout or panfish I bring three- nymphs, dries, wets. If I had to I could cut all those down to one box for each target fish.
If you aren't catching fish, I would look at presentation first, location second, and fly choice third.
My $.02
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For trout fishing I seem to use the same basic flys most of the time and I find I can get away with carrying only a streamer wallet and two or three large fly boxes. Makes the vest a lot lighter.
Flies that aren't needed stay home.
When I fish the salt I only carry one box. Five or six supply boxes are left in the car and I can fill the "carry" box with what I think I'll need.
I don't think this system would work with trout flys but not being weighted down with all the extra boxes is very liberating.
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Absolutely. You've got to narrow it down. My boxes are filled according to destination. I have a freestone box, a tailwater box, a midge box, a steelhead box, and a lake box. In each of them are a mix of dries, wets, nymphs and streamers. I might bring an additional box for certain times of the year e.g. in the early summer I might bring a "big dries" box with green drakes and salmonflies/golden stones. But for the most part this approach really narrows things down so that I generally will have everyting I need in a box or two.
Same goes for all the accessories - just bring enough split shot, tippet etc. to get the job done and leave the backup stuff in the rig.
Good topic,
-John
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I only take the flies I have confidence in . I fish mostly the same spots so have built up a system of what fly for what spot . Works for me . but your right I used to take everything along and then spend most of my time changing flies instead of fishing one or two correctly and giving them a chance to work.
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I am LMAO!....Jack Hise, Brad Sherrick, Mike Murgida, Bill DeSavage & I met at Cabelas in Dundee, Mi for a 2006 Michigan Fish-In planning meeting. Of course, we also shopped. I got a GREAT buy on a Cabelas soft tackle carrier WITH 12 plastic boxes & adjustable dividers ($42.50 all inclusive). I bought this so I could carry a total inventory of flies in my Jeep so at anytime I could replenish, change selection, adapt, etc. Hey, I can tote more flies than a Kenyan can tie in a day! Of course, the fine folks I was with made jest of my purchase, UNTIL I reminded them that my purchase also is a PERFECT "saltwater bluegill chest pack"! (see pix "Cabelas security cameras" on Sound Off).
Mike
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I couldn't imagine havin' more than one fly box in my vest....as Gnu Bee said....fish the flies you have confidence in....I would guess that since late May I have no less than 4 days a week(except the last 2 weeks is gittin' cold up there) on the waters in my area...I'll bet I haven't fished 15 different patterns....and rarely get skunked...as an article I read recently put it.....your best weapon on the river/lake is your confidence... http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/wink.gif))
mojo the less flies is best guy
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I said this before in another topic. I will NOT carry around a restaurant from which the trout will pick and choose but rather a military chow line at which they WILL EAT what I serve.
One flybox , half full. Eat it or STARVE!
Mark
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I'd rather be in Wyoming!
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1 box of mixed flies dry/wet
1 box of bugs/bombers
later
Mike
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RW here,
Marco, we think alike. I have turned a guest bedroom into a freakin fly shop at home with all my tying; and my truck, as I've said on another thread, is full of plenty of options. But when I go astream, I carry one fly box, one rod, one reel, a spool of tippet material and a swiss army knife (the little one). If I don't catch fish with the flies I have chosen for that particular outing so be it. My trophies come from my surroundings. I fish in trophy places, numbers don't interest me (anymore). Neither do gadgets. Been there done that too. After 65 years I've done the most, biggest, most difficult stages scenario. Even held a world record for a couple years. What, pray tell, can I do to upstage myself there? Nowdays, a couple fish here, a couple there, or even one, is all I need for a successful day astream in a beautiful place, either alone, with good friends and/or family.
Later, RW
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"We fish for pleasure; I for mine, you for yours." -James Leisenring on fishing the wet fly-
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