What's in YOUR vest?

[Guest]

It's 12 degrees outside, with a wind chill of 1, and so it's that time again!

 

What's in your vest?

 

Yep, I got the bug and decided to clean out from Fall and actually switched to an older vest that for some reason (it was probably cold outside some night...) I switched out of for a new one. Here's all the stuff in my vest not counting the flies and my net.

 

 

On the lower right, WAY too many ways of floating flies, including a bottle of Gink adn a bottle of Frog's Fanny.

 

Just above those, a container of sinkers and a ball of moldable weight putty.

 

Above those are a couple of speciment bottles (I actually do use these when I catch something I know the fish like), and a stringer just in case.

 

Down the middle are a busted multi-tool (in cheap ones a screw always comes out eventually. Don't buy cheap multis!) and a foreceps.

 

Next are some sanitary hand wipes, and below those, a stack of leaders and some line/leader connectors just in case someday my whole leader and connector get pulled off (yeah, I know, the odds are against it, but it could happen!).

 

Below that is deliar #1 a measuring tape, and below that a Fenwick tippet wallet holding 4 spools and 3 spools that don't fit.

 

To the left of those is deliar #2 a Berkely scale, and above that is a stomach pump which I use rarely and very gently I promise!

 

Um, please don't tell that I did all this on the couch!

 

Oh, by the way, there was a #6 Zonker, a #4 Black Ghost, a #4 Dragonfly nymph, a #4 Sheep minnow, and a #10 Stimulator all loose in one pocket. That doesn't count as "flies" though, 'cause they weren't in a box! They also are a the reason why I reach very carefull when I go deep into my vest pockets.

 

So, beside fly boxes and your net, what's in your vest?

[sandflyx 0]

32 boxes, 9 tippet spools, 12 leaders, 3 different split shot containers, 2 forceps, 2 snips, first aid kit, suvival kit, rain poncho (vacum packed), net, thermometer, 2 cereal bars, bottle water, 2 fly dryers bottles, 2 fly floatant bottles, 12 different float aids, knife with file small, 2 vials for insects. Thats before I look at it.

[riffleriversteelheadslayer 0]

a bottle of gink, a pack of desicant to dry flies(homade by me using silica gel beads crushed with a hammer),hemos, nippers 7 sppols of tippet, 5 leaders, strike indicator putty, polarized glasses, pack of split shots, hand vise, ziplock bag full of hackle feathers dubbing chenille thread tinsel a pair of sissors and a bobbin and bodkin, magnesium fire starter, knife, and the last thing in the very bottom of the last pocket is a bottle of bug balm to keep the mosquitoes and black flies away

[mikechell 0]

Me.

[Piker20 0]

Hah hah. Very good.

 

 

Rif, how do you find the crushed silica works? Do you dip the wet fly in or while its dry?

[Piker20 0]

My vest is kinda on the light side, 6 fly boxes, forceps, scissors, amadou patch, fly line cleaning pad thingy?? Gink, priest, 3 tippets, wallet with leaders.in it. Think that's it.

[riffleriversteelheadslayer 0]

I have a container from my mom's test strips from her glucometer that I cut a notch in the rim then fill it 3/4 of the way full with the silica gel that I crushed toss the wet fly in the bottle pull the tippet into the notch close the lid shake it a couple times its dried and ready to hit back on the water it works great with cdc flies to

[CoachBob 0]

I wrote an article on this very subject you can see at http://www.flyanglersonline.com/features/bobboese/bobboese20090824.php.

Today I travel MUCH lighter. At most two fly boxes filled with three of each fly I might use. I do a lot of research before going on the water. A Tiefast combo tool on a zinger gives me nippers, file and tiefast tool. Forceps and extra tippe are about it. catch'em let'em go.

[Piker20 0]

I have some of those containers so will smash up some sillica (is it the stuff that comes in packs with shoes etc?) and try it.

[riffleriversteelheadslayer 0]

yup that's the stuff be sure to cut a notch in the rim for your leader or you will cut your leader with the lid

[DryFlies4Life 0]

Forceps, needle nose pliers, tippet and leader material in sizes 2lb test through 8lb test, a couple ore made leaders, 1 or 2 fly boxes, dry fly floatant and my net.

[flytire 0]

 

cartoon by jack ohham found on http://www.flyanglersonline.com/

[feathers5 0]

a bottle of gink, a pack of desicant to dry flies(homade by me using silica gel beads crushed with a hammer),hemos, nippers 7 sppols of tippet, 5 leaders, strike indicator putty, polarized glasses, pack of split shots, hand vise, ziplock bag full of hackle feathers dubbing chenille thread tinsel a pair of sissors and a bobbin and bodkin, magnesium fire starter, knife, and the last thing in the very bottom of the last pocket is a bottle of bug balm to keep the mosquitoes and black flies away

It looks like you everything, but flies. Ha! Ha!

[mikechell 0]

Piker ... does that priest ever help you catch more fish than those around you, or is it more mysterious than that?

[Guest]

 

cartoon by jack ohham found on http://www.flyanglersonline.com/

ROTFL!! That was me!