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Wondering what most of you use as fly boxes and packs.  A few years ago a friend who works as an aircraft mechanic gave me several clear plastic boxes that his parts came in.  They look similar to the boxes you can get to store baseball cards in.  Some were shallow and some were deep, which work great for holding flies with rubber legs that you don't want to get deformed.  I cut a piece of sticky back foam and apply and load up with flies.  I like the idea that they are clear and you can see the contents of each without having to open.  I store them in a case which I think was made to hold cd's that I paid a buck for at a local thrift store and also a crayon bag that I found in the school supplies at Walmart.  This works for me as the crayon bag holds a dozen boxes and the cd pouch holds several plus it can be worn as a fanny pack.

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I'm looking at the flies what a collection.

A clever, compact storage system, great idea.

Nice!

Right now, I'm using a couple different sizes of small Plano boxes.  No foam.  I just slip one into a cargo pocket in my pants, forceps into a front pocket, floatant into a different front pocket, tippet material into a different cargo pocket in my pants, and I have a pair of fingernail clippers on my keychain.

 Thats a pretty nice set up Neat and Tidy. I have yet to find a production Fly Box that I'm satisfied with most are to small designed for Trout Fishing not larger Panfish and Bass flys. I have several Plano boxes that I put foam in then I seperate the flys by species their for and rod size I cast them with and mark the boxes.

Problem is every time I go fishing I take every fly I own....I can't help it.

 

HEY ALLEN, VVVVVVVVVVVERY IMPRESSIVE WITH IT'S SIMPLICITY and the  ingenuity of it all. You've been as busy as me making all those nice looking bugs, GREAT POSTING!!!

That is a GREAT IDEA!!!!!!!! But how do you KEEP THEM SO NEAT?????????????  I use an assortment of economy fly boxes and I have a bunch of electrical tape boxes!!!!! Keep adding to the tape boxes til I get to Witchita!!!!!

Here's some more photos.  Figure baseball card shops would have the same cases.

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Again Rex nice looking flies.

WOW! what a nice collection of flies. I hope to have a set up like that by next spring. Moving to the UP Michigan in Apil and looking forward to fishing new streams and lake.

Well, I've done some serious upgrading since I last posted to this thread.

I've bought two nice fly boxes.  Both are the same, 6" x 4" x 1", double sided, water-tight, clear lexan lids with a slotted foam interior.  As was mentioned earlier in this thread, they are designed for trout flies.

I have one filled with my panfish flies.  Poppers, hoppers, and gurglers on one side, with Wooly Buggers and assorted nymphs on the other side.

The second box was filled with Streamers.  And I mean FILLED!  I didn't really have a bunch of Streamers, but they're so big that it doesn't take many to fill a box that size.

I just made a fly box for my Streamers.  I went to Wally World and bought a pencil box for $0.97.  Got a sheet of foam for $.049.  Cut the foam to size, and glued a piece to the bottom and the lid.  Once it dried, I loaded all my Streamers into that.  Most of the Clousers and other small Streamers went on the lid, as it's not as deep as the bottom.  The bottom got my Egg-Sucking Leach, a couple articulated Streamers a buddy gave me, and some other big stuff.  I'll have to get a pic of it later.

Great ideas, guys. I made a couple out of those tin breath mint cans for some special trout flies. That collection of flies above is beautiful. I use that white pasty craft glue. I'm just wondering what others use.

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