WHAT'S IN YOUR VEST? - Bob Boese - August 24, 2009

[Eric-WD]

red mucilin???

mucilin is a floatant, red is the traditional with out silicone, green is more modern and contains silicone, both work well for different things.

for me it just melts all over my trunk, thus the reason I no longer Carry any mucilin.

Eric

[Panfisha]

I have a vest but I replaced it with a nice chestpack. But the contents never changed.

small fly box for foam flies
Medium fly box for all others
3 tippet spools
Sticky strike indicators
pliers
multi-tool

[Cold]

for me it just melts all over my trunk, thus the reason I no longer Carry any mucilin.

Eric

Yesssssss...

The first day I had it, it tried to leak on my passenger seat. Luckily it was still in the bag!

I keep it at home now and use it to pre-treat furled leaders I intend to use for dry fly fishing.

[modocdan]

I've had the same trouble with Mucilin melting... I do use it though, and often take it out when it's warm or hot. I use the newer plastic containers of it, and they weal better, the old tin cans of it leaked pretty bad. I do like the little cns though for small hooks.
.........ModocDan

[vargoje3]

Fishpond Mesh Vest w/

1 zinger w/ nippers + hemostats
1 bugger barn for big flies
1 CF box w/ all my nymphs
1 big cliff flybox w/ my midges and dry flies
0x-6x tippet
3-4 mono leaders
3-4 indicator/streamer/dryfly furled leaders
2 bags of split shot
strike indicators
frog fanny
watershed dry fly floatant
poncho
nalgene
plastic bags if i'm fishing for stockies
multitool
small knife
compass
whistle
energy bars

and the most important item......a can of grizzly wintergreen chew.

[mgliss]

5 Fly boxes
1-Dries
2-Nymphs
3-Terrestrials
4-Big Stoneflies/Rubberleggs
5- Streamers
2-6x Flourocarbon Spools
Hemostats
Nippers
Seine
Indicators
Gink
NonLead splitshot
TieFast Knot Tool

[brandonl]

I recently put the vest away in favor of a Fishpond San Juan chest pack, and carry it off to one side using only one strap.

fly box - either my trout box or bluegill box
tippet - 4x for bluegill, 5x and 6x for trout
extra leader or two
thingamabobber
license
splitshot
hemostats on a Simms retractor
nippers on another Simms retractor

I like to pack light.

[Eight Thumbs]

Let me just echo the thoughts of several of the previous posters. SIXTEEN BOXES! SIXTEEN BOXES! SIXTEEN BOXES! If this is indeed true, we have a new entry for Ripley's Believe It or Not. Even if he used just small, plastic fly boxes with 6 or 8 little comparments this seems like an awfully high number. Maybe Lee had a couple of flies in small split-shot or hook boxes and was counting those. I'm not from Missouri but I would sure like to see this one myself. 8T

[bobbyg]

That must be a misprint?

Heck, you'd spend half your time on stream just searching your boxes, if you could find the right one!?

bobbyg

[nowindknots]

I hate carrying more than I need. I have a shirt pocket that holds all my fishing related stuff. Small flybox, precut tippet in a tiny ziplock bag, pocketknife and floatant when I fish drys. If I need water I have a caribiner to clip a bottle onto a D loop or belt loop if I'm wet wading.

Jim