OK, snippin' all those barbs off now..losing toooo many flies.
Ideas????
Been spiking them in the vest patch but...well, you know...look down, GONE!
Fly Stowing and Drying
OK, snippin' all those barbs off now..losing toooo many flies.
Ideas????
Been spiking them in the vest patch but...well, you know...look down, GONE!
brhoff;
Carry an empty fly box and take the wet fly's out to dry at the end of the day.
Real sheep fleece works much better than those foam things
I made dozens out of my wife's old slippers
(not as gross as you might imagine)
I give them away to "needy" people all the time
The simpler the outfit, the more skill it takes to manage it, and the more pleasure one gets in his achievements.
--- Horace Kephart
Sir Lord Hise's idea, is one I also have always used for "wet flies". (it's comforting to know, I sometimes "think like royalty"!).
I took an inexpensive, $5.00 plastic fly box, drilled about a dozen, very small holes in the lid and carry this as my "dry out box", when I change flies.
Saint Paul-"The Highly Confused"
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
this is a riot, i been wondering for a couple of years now why i was loosing so many flies from the fleece patch. it never occurred to me it was the barbless hooks.
thanks guys this is really gonna cut down on my vise time
I use a ridged foam patch, and put the flies on sideways against the ridge. Not so easily bumped off. Now if I could just get the safety pin holding it on to stay secured ...
Trouts don't live in ugly places.
A friend is not who knows you the longest, but the one who came and never left your side.
Don't look back, we ain't goin' that way.
I never use that fleece thingy, I don?t know why just never have. I take along one of Danbobs ( faol member ) small fly boxes to put strays in. It has some super magnets in it to ensure flies are not blown away on windy days. Absolutely essential for Midges and other small flies. The magnets seem to keep the flies separated so they don't rust together in one big mess.
I never thought of drilling some small holes in it for drying out the flies. perhaps I shall .
Last edited by Gnu Bee Flyer; 04-02-2008 at 06:37 PM.
For God's sake, Don't Quote me! I'm Probably making this crap up!
HRH Betty............ a "little dab'll do ya'! On the back of a few safety style pins, I have on my gear, I dab a little blob of "Shoe-Goo" on the clasp and that's the END of "loose pins and lost items"!
GnuBee, I USED, to use the small magnets also. But, it would magnetize my hooks, then when I fished wets and streamers, I'd always be "dragging up", other fishermen's lost fly reels, rods, outboard motors, etc.!! Got just, plain, TIRED of cleaning up lost Abels and Billy Pates, Ross'es and the occasional Evinrude.
Saint Paul-"The Highly Confused"
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I use a 'magnetic' fly patch, it has a couple of those super strong magnets on a metal plate that clips to your shirt. Barbed or not it holds them all...
Yup, will start just culling the flies to a a seperate fly container...no more vest drying for me...
Shook the skunk off this week with a 11" Trout and promptly lost the fly along with the one I was using previous the catch...lost a nice Olive Nymph and a Crappie Candy.
Was using a fleece patch.
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