My challenge to fly box manufacturers...

[SteveP]

Ok so I have this thing with the flies I tie, I need to have them all organized and in their place in the boxes I have for them, nice and neat like little soldiers in formation. My issue is that I cannot find a good fly box for midges (bead head zebra and such) ever box I have tried they fall out of the edges of them and mix and mingle where they do not belong and I eventually lose a few when I try to retie with a different pattern. So in my mind I believe that there is an R&D guy out there reading these threads looking for his next great thing to make for his company to make millions. i know a bit far fetched but a guy has to have hope....


In reality what do you all use and am I just being to anal retentive or am I not the only one that doesn't like to see my flies desegregated? I have tried everything and my only problem is that I don't like a box that you hook them in the foam since I have so many and in so many different color combos, currently I have them in one of the two sided ten compartment per side little divided thingy, and they are all over inside there.

Steve

[hap]

A friend uses small individual zip-lock bags, lots of them. Put them inside a bigger bag and you have a fly box.
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[NJTroutbum]

I use almost exclusively plastic compartment boxes. I like foam boxes for nymphs and streamers....but no foam box I have found yet lets dry fly hackle lay right. SO I use the clear boxes with the feet that can snap together, in 6-8-12 & 15 compartments.

[Greg H]

Maybe if it is only for midges and other minutiae (which tend to crawl over or under the dividers) a better solution would be the boxes sold at the drug store for a week's pills. Some of them hold 7 days x 3 times per day. They close very tight, and some have individual lids for each compartment. The only challenge is getting the contents out - may have to carry tweezers for those flies.

[quivira kid]

Take a look at Cliff's "Day's Worth" box. It's magnetic on one side. No "compartments", but everything stays in its place due to the magnet. I use one for my bluegill wet flies and love it!

[SteveP]

almost every midge I tie is on a TMC 2499 spbl size 16, the only exception to tha rule is larva lace midges that are tied on size 20 TMC 5263. I have thought about the pill boxes, I guess I'm just a bit of a purist in tat I just think it looks cheesy, although I will say I use old tap and drill tubes for bass flies, but I justify that in saying they are big manly flies they can go in something like a tap or drill tube since that also seems to be manly!!! (weird logic I know) I also tried the baggies, and then dropped about 30 flies in the water trying to change flies and decides that was a bad idea. I want style convenience and function all in one.... (too much to ask I know)

Steve

[DarrinG]

Little bitty midge flies, I like a magnet!

I bought a cheaper small fly box and ripped out the foam on each side. I bought a roll of magnetic strips and glued each side of the box with the magnet strips.
Just drop the small midge flies on the magnet strips and they stay right there!

[Normand]

so what wrong with the C&F style fly boxes with the slit foam?

[kelkay]

Take a look at Cliff's "Day's Worth" box. It's magnetic on one side. No "compartments", but everything stays in its place due to the magnet. I use one for my bluegill wet flies and love it!

I have the same thing, got it on Ebay. It is a great box and I love the compartment in the back with the magnets. It works for me.

[Cold]

Like the C&F's I use the Flambeau vertical slit foam

http://fishing.flambeauoutdoors.com/fishing.html

I use the small size, with the swing leaf, slit foam on all surfaces except one side of the swing leaf that has flat foam, which I use as a kinf of fly patch when I dont wanna hunt down the slot a fly came out of and put it in wet.