I don't think the 'brand' is as important as how it's layed out.

The purpose of such a tool is to hold your stuff securely and with some semblance of organization and access.

Before I bought my last vest, having been dispointed with a couplebefore it, I took several of my fly boxes and stuff that I usually carry with me to the store and made sure that things would FIT and wouldn't fall out or be hard to get out of the pockets.

Suprisingly, none of the name brand vests would hold my boxes.

Now, if I'd been willing to buy all new fly boxes that would have fit the Simms, I'd have bought one, but wasn't going to do that, so I didn't.

So, I went to the local miltary surplus store and found a G.I. photographers vest...pricey at $99 but it holds tons of stuff, is very comfortable to wear, and I only had to make very few modifications to it to make it an ideal fly fishing tool (add a hole for tippet to pass through, sew on a fly patch and sew a seam to segment one of the bigger pockets into two). This one will last the rest of my life.

Good Luck!

Buddy