UPDATE: Cliff is going to throw me a Crab Shack box to fill up and give away to one of you lucky SOB’s.
Sometimes I just seem to need to tie. There are nights when I can’t get my mind on the task and I find myself having tied 4 flies in an hour of tinkering and waffling about materials and patterns. There are other nights when I set out hooks and then more hooks and then more hooks and I just seem to be in the flow. I know what flies I’m tying and with which materials and I tie those flies. Those are the nights I fill up my boxes.
I’ve had a few nights like that recently.
Yeah… that should work.
It isn’t about filling the boxes anymore, really. The boxes are kind of full. I’ll need to remove some flies to make room for the new ones. I only bring two boxes with me on my hip pack and I’ll bring a box of tarpon/cuda flies if I’m fishing from a boat. Any more than the two boxes (I use Bugger Barn boxes from Cliff Outdoors) and it just becomes a little hard to manage.
If I can convince Cliff to give me a box I’ll fill the box and we can do a give away here on the blog. I don’t really do many give aways, but I’m not opposed to it and this kind of thing would be kind of fun. If I can convince them to give two boxes I think we should make it a communal give away with flies contributed from all of you fine, fine people. Anyone know the Cliff guys? Let’s make it happen.
The bottom three rows are from the past couple nights.
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Tags: Cliff Boxes, Flies, tying
I’ve also started tying for our trip to Exuma in March. I think that my desire and compulsion for tying increase as the days to the trip draw closer. A couple here and there and then about 3 weeks before the trip it’s about 12 per night.
A new box sure would come in handy in March. What do you have in mind?
Now you’re talking. I’m fishing off a live aboard around the southern end of Andros mid-April and I promise to give your flies a toss or two with a full report on return. Although in the past I’ve found that two or three flies usually carries me for the week.
I wouldn’t mind having some of these to play around with the next time I get to the Keys. They look great!