For those of you that carry 1,000+ flies

[bones]

close to a 1000...

[RonMT]

MikeBrat- I tie for a livng and tying a lot of flies for myself is no big deal. At times I have tied as many as 18 to 20 dozen in a day when pushed to get an order done. I don't do that often but at times?

When I tie orders and I use the fly that I am tying I will do from 6 to a couple of dozen for myself. Then sometimes I just tie to fill my own boxes. That is how I keep up with what I use and need. Tying 4 or 5 dozen for myself in a day is not a big deal at all. Ron

[MuddlerMinnow]

Wow, I'm with MikeBrat on this one (although I'm also envious!). You guys need sherpas!

[l1ranger]

I own just under eleventy billion flies - but never carry near 1000 when fishing

maybe a hundred, maybe more but never 1000

I figure what I want to take for what I think they'll be eating, get a couple of each, and head out.

If I'm wrong, the others are in the truck

[hikepat]

Just because someone owns over 1000 flies does not mean they always have everyone with them. I have 3 large boxes for trout, 2 large for steelhead, 1 large and one small box for bass and pan fish, and 3 large boxes for saltwater. There is never a reason for me to carry the steelhead flies when fishing for trout or vis versa. Not sure how many flies I own and this list does not include the wives boxes or the flies from the few swaps I have done over the years or the flies I gotten from some of the masters I use for refrence.
Even though I have many flies sometimes I do not even take but a few flies like yesterday on the salt I took only 7 flies total and only used the one I had tied for the trip the night before. Hey that fly is now beat up to a point it has almost no material left on it after a very great day of Salmon fishing and it will now go to our wall of retired flies that will never get fished again.

[Gnu Bee Flyer]

Man I'm doing it all wrong. I take only about 25-30 flies with me . When I lose them all its is time to go home. I have to admit that I use up about a dozen or so on a weekend to break offs and pinetree hits. The rest are given away to all my buddys that know I tie.

Mikebrat ha ha that was me 2 years ago. Now I can rap of a dozen or so each night. After the whole winter of tying every night I have kabillions of them . No 2 the same either. I do not believe in perfection and my fly collection show it in a big way.

[PaGuy]

I have a array of fly boxes The C&F is the nices though it holds alot of streamers
trout flies




Salmon flies

[Bamboozle]

I always keep TONS of extra flies in the car in case I lose the "couple of each" I carry stream-side.

If I lose flies that are producing I walk back to the car to re-stock.

I also carry a few beers in the car so when I have to re-stock my flies...

...you get the idea.

[gutbomb]

I used to carry several hundred. I'm currently going through a twelve step program to ween myself off so many flies. I've started to force myself to sit down before I go and put whatever flies I think I'll need into one box, and it is HARD!!! I'm tired of wearing a 20 lb. vest.

[Gnu Bee Flyer]

For you fellows that need just one more flybox check out this Ebay auction in aid of the Al Campbell memorial bench. I don't know a lot about fly boxes but it looks like a good one.

http://cgi.ebay.com/AL-CAMPBELL-MEMORIA ... dZViewItem