Hi,
Remember these? What I find so interesting is that if you look at the contents of the inside upper right, you see a spool of thread and a small container of wax - Pre waxed thread!
Interesting to look at, I think.
And several pages of instructions:
When I was 10 years old I mail ordered a Hank Roberts flytying kit that looked very much like the one in your photo.
I’d love to see a picture of that vise!
That is an awesome kit. What year is it from. I found the container that the wax comes in doesn’t have a closable container. It looks more like what you would put katsup, at a to go place. I to would love to see pictures of the vise
I’m not familiar with “Monga Hair” for streamers. Is that another name for “Nauga” or “Yeti”?? 
Monga Hair is from the island of Mong. It is the hair of the indigenous chimp located there.
I have one of those vises I got in a package of misc. Fly tying stuff. I wondered where it came from…looks completely unusable.
The “vise” is that shiny long, slender item in the far right of the contents of the box.
Reminds me very much of my first kit back in the 80’s. I dont think my vise was that nice though but I think I had that picture identifying the parts of the fly. At least one very similar.
Yes, I figure that out. Was wondering what it looked like set up.
Steven, it either looks like “not much” or “magical apparatus” depending on you age and experience level. I wore out one of those vices when I was 14-15. Then I got another and pretty much wore it out too. With mine, the metal was soft and could only clamp so many hard hooks before it started losing its grip. For all that, it held size 18 hooks and 4/0 hooks for a few hundred flies. I would think that they might still have a place in a travel kit that might end up at high risk due to thieves, airport baggage handlers, etc…
The illustrated instructions actually show the vise pretty well.
Ed
It reminds me of my first Herter’s Kit, when I was very young, in the early '60s. Other than watching Mini-Skirts, that was my main hobby in High School.
Byron,
Ned Grey had a small fly shop here in Los Angeles (Montrose, Ca) called “Sierra Tackle”. He was one of the first to promote Saltwater FF here in Southern California. A visit to his shop was like a trip back in time. I had the pleasure of sitting on the bank of the East Walker River, in Bridgeport, Ca back in 1978, watching this older gentleman cast a brace of wet flies and nailing a 5lb. Brookie on the first swing.I didn’t even know there were Brookies in that river till he told me about the hatchery truck that had broken down a few years earlier, a mile down stream, and they had to dump their load into the river. He was one of the first guides in the Eastern Sierras when he was younger and one heck of a nice guy…I still have a small Wheatley aluminum clip fly box I picked up from his shop many years ago
PT/TB
Thanks PT good story.
All of which neatly explains why “skirting material” is so popular on lures…
Ed