Fly boxes on the stream

[spm 0]

I have always used the simple plastic boxes with separate comparments. A friend showed me his C&F Designs fly box with the slitted foam strips and I liked the way it held the flies from blowing away on the stream. So, I bought a couple. Here's my question: Has anyone noticed that the delicate hackles, tails, etc. get bent up when inserting the flies into the foam slits? Am I just not loading the box correctly?

 

Thanks,

steve

[utyer 0]

I usually put all my dry flies with hackle in the plastic compartment boxes. I reserve the slit foam boxes for wets, nymphs and streamers. I don't buy those expensive C $ F boxes at all. There are plenty of cheap boxes that hold my flies just fine.

[oldtrout58 0]

Yes, I hate that. It's one of the reasons I tie parachute patterns.

 

I have glued magnetic strips into my

compartment boxes, but that bent the hackles too. It did keep them in the box.

[Crackaig 0]

There are boxes available with slotted foam on one side and compartments on the other. Nymphs in the foam, hackled dry flies in the compartments, problem solved.

 

Cheers,

C.

[flytire 0]

did your friend have dry flies in his c&f boxes and if he did how did he put them in it?

 

i use dewitt fly boxes for all of my dry flies. no crushed hackles

 

 

my c&f boxes are for midges, nymphs, wet etc

[FlaFly 0]

On the Hatches page, they advertise several fly boxes that have foam strips with slots, separated by a depression where I've always assumed the hackle end should go.

[FlaFly 0]

Whoops. just noticed Crackaig already said the same thing.

[spm 0]

Thanks for all the responses. I never watched him load his box, so don't know how he did it. Shouldn't be this difficult, but then, I tend to over-think everything.

I just finished transfering my dry flies back into the plastic compartment box.

 

steve

[Spanky29ca 0]

I use the compartment box as we'll for my dries, another box I use is the orvis dropper rig box, I like to have my dry dropper and nymph rigs ready to go while out on the stream if possible. Here's a link http://www.orvis.com/store/product.aspx?pf_id=76kh