I recently started fishing with midges due to some interesting conditions locally this summer.
Thanks to the amazing talents of some of this board’s tiers I have an excellent selection. However I have found that the combination of the tiny flies and my big fingers the standard boxes and altoid tins I use are pretty inadequate.
I was wondering if anyone had some good recommendations?
Thanks as always
little round magnets might help
c & f
I agree with Norm on the C&F boxes. I have several varieties, all very conducive to midge dries and nymphs. If you have trouble stringing the flies on a leader, try the C&F threader boxes. That way you can put the flies on the threaders under a magnifier at home, then slip them from the threader onto the leader once you are on the stream.
I use and like the C&F Midge Fly Box. It has slots for 161 Flys, 2 Fly Threaders, and 3 small Plastic Box’es inside of it. I find it perfect for midges. Just my 2 cents. John
Someone (I thought it was C&F, but I can’t find a listing now, for love nor money!!) makes a nice little tweezer intended to be used to pick individual flies from a box. Clips right on your vest/lanyard. I’ll keep looking.
Betty, try orvis. I think I remember an orvis threader box with tweazers at somepoint. I could be wrong though.
Rawfish, I havent used one but look at the daysworth flybox.It has a magnetic sheet to spread out your midges and is much cheaper than the C&F flyboxes. I do have the bugger barns and LOVE them. I was planning to try out their other boxes in the spring.
http://www.wyomingflyfishing.com/CLIFF- … S-C79.aspx
PS I just googled cliffsoutdoors and this was the first site that popped up. Not sure if a sponser carries their products but I am sure someone knows.
I use one of these, it’s great!
http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/e … hread6Row/
Danbob ( an faol member ) Is producing small midge boxes that are the perfect size for your vest pocket while out on the stream . The wind absolutly cannot blow the flies out of it because of the super magnets it contains. He gave me one at the Idaho fish in and I just love it. Holds about 100 or so tiny midges without crushing them in any way.
He said he will be selling them for about 10 bux each. I prefer mine to all the other slotted ones I have as it is much easier to get a fly out without spilling any on the ground.
Plus I lost mine in May with about 60 chronomyds in it. In late june when we returned to the same lake a gentleman came up to me and said, Hello you dropped this last time you were here. He then handed me my lost box. What a nice guy. He said he wasn’t a fisherman but camped there a lot.
So the Danbob flybox has boomerang properties as well as being a great fly holder.
Rawfish – drop me a PM with your address and I’ll mail one to you. We’re not selling them to fly shops yet, and we need to get a few more being tested out there on the water before we do.
DANBOB
wow that boomerang effect fly box sounds like the best thing ever!!!
That brings up a good point.
Always put your name and phone number (with area code) in your flybox. If it gets lost, at least whoever finds it has the option of giving it back.
Speaking of putting a name on your boxes…I bought some orvis lightweight floating fly boxes…They have tags glued to the box of the for your name address and phon number!!! How cool is that.
To everyone who has inquired about getting some magnetic midge boxes from me:
THANK YOU for your interest. All this came in while I was gone fishing! And exposed me slacking, since the boxes are not on our website yet. I’ll have your PMs answered this evening, and your fly boxes in the mail in about 3 days, plus info on the website later today. Retail price is $12.00 (strong magnets are expensive!), but I offered these samples up for free. So if you wish to pay me, that would be great (details will be in your PM from me), and if not you are now an official ‘product tester,’ and I expect to hear back from you in a few months about how the midge boxes worked out for you! I’ll also have a couple dozen of them for sale in Idaho at the Fish-In later this month. I do also offer wholesale prices for fly shops and the like.
Thanks for your patience – DANBOB
UPDATE – all the info about these boxes is now up online at:
http://www.littlesouthfork.com/tools.html
And the retail price has dropped to $10 + S&H
Again, thanks for the interest!
i use the C&F hook pallets for all my midges and other tiny flies they are magnetic and have a clear top while holding a ton of flies.
I have one of these and like it a lot.
try the 7-day medicine dispensers available at any pharmacy–not expensive and with 7 compartments an entire assortment of colors and sizes of midge patterns can fit inwith ease
The best possible combination is one of the C&F midge boxes and a fly spinner from Feather-Craft. The latter is a small cross-lock tweezer that one can use to pluck the smallest fly from the C&F box, then thread the tippet and spin the tweezers to make a clinch knot.
Since the spinner is a cross-lock, one need not keep pressure on to hold the fly in place. Drop everything (or a few things, as I often do) and the fly is still in the tweezers, just waiting to be knotted into place.
Best gadget EVER. I fish tiny flies all the time, and this tool makes it easy.
Danbob, I received the fly box you sent to me. So far I am impressed. I will fill it up and use it hard. I will send you a report of what I think, and I will send you a check within the next month. Thanks again for giving me the chance to try this box out. John