Hi, my wife and I are just starting out in fly fishing and have our first set of gear. we have a small collection of flys, but realise that you probably end up with quite a lot after a while. Given that it's going to be a while before I can recognise them by just looking, I wondered how people organise their collection of flys and fly boxes.

So far I have some nymphs (princes, pheasants tails) lures (wooly buggers) and drys (black knats, elk hair caddis, adams, brown pheasant tails, and gold ribbed hairs ears) all in a selection of sizes.

I thought perhaps a box for each of those categories, but then you have the different types and sizes etc. It could get fairly messy quite quickly. Would you keep a box for each different style or type of fly? I figure other people must have the same problem, so I thought I'd ask here.

I have a couple of small fly boxes and some empty altoids tins to convert over and wondered what you do.

Thanks for the help,

Justin.