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Index => Main Discussion Area => Topic started by: Mike Barrio on 10/02/2014 at 19:47
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So ..... Who is going to confess to suffering from Pre Season Fly Box disorder this year! :z16
Are you starting to plan your patterns for the new season? Telling yourself that you only need "x" number of flies in your box? Busy working out which patterns those "x" number of flies will be and where they should be slotted in the box ..................... :z4
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Not me, mine are perfectly organised and I have everything I need apart from what I need tomorrow. I lost most of those today :oops
Ben
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I have everything I need apart from what I need tomorrow. I lost most of those today :oops
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So ..... Who is going to confess to suffering from Pre Season Fly Box disorder this year! :z16
Are you starting to plan your patterns for the new season? Telling yourself that you only need "x" number of flies in your box? Busy working out which patterns those "x" number of flies will be and where they should be slotted in the box ..................... :z4
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Funny man :z4 :z4 :z4 :z4
Mine are all done :X2
Sandy
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Mine are all done :X2
Well done Sandy! :z4 :z4 :z4
I knew I'd get at least one confession!
Cheers
Mike
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Mike,
I have tied all my spring tubes and they are carefully arranged in an Ikea food sealable freezer bag as Ben and Hamish can testify when I showed them my well organised tube box (plastic bag) on the Tay earlier this season.
Eddie. :X2
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Mike,
I have tied all my spring tubes and they are carefully arranged in an Ikea food sealable freezer bag .......
Eddie. :X2
Excellent :z16
Not sure if I can get you on that as a confession though? This maybe depends if your Spring Tubes are just a big selection of possibles, or if they have been refined down to a limited number of your go to patterns :wink
Cheers
Mike
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Mike, see Ed's many threads on tying sessions in Western Asia, all planned and in large numbers. When fishing the Dee in the spring tubes are so disposable that they are not even worth transferring into a box. Don't know how many I lost today!
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Don't know how many I lost today!
I'm absolutely bursting to reply to that one Ben ..... but I shall refrain :z13
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I was up into the wee hours tying weird and wonderful cone heads and tubes for a Mid dee session on saturday.
I don't think I have a single "pattern" but lots of variations on a theme.
I am starting to wonder if tungstun cone heads are going to be too heavy! D'oh!
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Spent the weekend trying to tie up some flies for my box without much success too many interruptions :X2
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Mike,
Living where I do means that I don't really have a close season anymore :cool:
This does however mean that my boxes end up getting progressively more untidy as the "seasons" pass and are just topped up with replacement flies and anything that comes into my head when I am sat at the vice.
There is one forum member who will agree that most people on here would shudder when they saw the organised chaos that is my fishing tackle. This does however have one significant advantage....
When I inevitably leave a box at home which is needed at the time. I can always be safe in the knowledge that I will have a good selection of the flies that are meant to be in the box lying in the boot of my car, pocket, vest, hat or pretty much anywhere else I care to look. :z4 :z4 :z4 :z4 :z4
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Steven.
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When I inevitably leave a box at home which is needed at the time. I can always be safe in the knowledge that I will have a good selection of the flies that are meant to be in the box lying in the boot of my car, pocket, vest, hat or pretty much anywhere else I care to look. :z4 :z4 :z4 :z4 :z4
I like it :z16
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So ..... Who is going to confess to suffering from Pre Season Fly Box disorder this year! :z16
Not me.... for once my boxes are vaguely organised :!
Are you starting to plan your patterns for the new season? Telling yourself that you only need "x" number of flies in your box? Busy working out which patterns those "x" number of flies will be and where they should be slotted in the box ..................... :z4
No and I don't go train spotting on a weekend either :wink
However I am planning on tying a lot (and I do mean a lot) of my favourite patterns between now mid-May, of all types I'm a few hundred in all ready :z16
H :cool:
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From what we've seen so far Hamish, I think you're gonna need a bigger box :z4
Cheers
Mike
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When I inevitably leave a box at home which is needed at the time. I can always be safe in the knowledge that I will have a good selection of the flies that are meant to be in the box lying in the boot of my car, pocket, vest, hat or pretty much anywhere else I care to look. :z4 :z4 :z4 :z4 :z4
Interesting...last year I got into the habit of sticking wet flies onto the parcel shelf of my car to dry out. I have an selection of flies that have caught fish and raise an eyebrow or two when I take the car to the garage.
Trouble is, when I want one, the car is always parked miles away!
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Interesting...last year I got into the habit of sticking wet flies onto the parcel shelf of my car to dry out. I have an selection of flies that have caught fish and raise an eyebrow or two when I take the car to the garage.
Trouble is, when I want one, the car is always parked miles away!
It could be worse. You could be driving my isuzu trooper (or an alfa for that matter) and your flies never even make it to the river bank...
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Steven.
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It could be worse. You could be driving my isuzu trooper (or an alfa for that matter) and your flies never even make it to the river bank...
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From what we've seen so far Hamish, I think you're gonna need a bigger box :z4
Cheers
Mike
Middle-ish right of the photo (with Orvis sticker attached) is for trout flies :wink Spare suitcase under table (not pictured) for some of the Salmon patterns :z7 and the open box is for saltwater shit. It's already full...........
(http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb53/ABZSTILO/DSC_0014.jpg) (http://s208.photobucket.com/user/ABZSTILO/media/DSC_0014.jpg.html)
Fun fun fun
H :z13
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That looks like the kitchen table Hamish? .... Nice :cool:
Cheers
Mike
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Well spotted and indeed it is the kitchen table Mr B or, as I prefer to call it, my fly tying bench :z4
R has even hoovered up all the mess on the floor I've been making :lol
I must be in the good books as there hasn't been one word of opposition to the tables current use :shock Ssssshhhhhhhhhh :z13
H :cool:
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It's got to be cleaner than Alfa bits Hamish :z4
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Ok so now i have decided what order to fit the flies for 2014 into the flybox :X2
Looks like 1 box became 2, although they are not that big :z7
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/DSC00550.jpg) (http://s252.photobucket.com/user/skuesapprentice/media/DSC00550.jpg.html)
12 patterns, various sizes. Happy now :z12
Sandy
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Happy is good ..... very nice Sandy :z16
Nice fly boxes by the way :cool:
Cheers
Mike
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Very nice Sandy :z16
Rob just carry the parcel shelf with you :z4
My preperations? Feckin shambles, but i'm sure i'll find a DHE or two come the 15th of next month :wink
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Done and dustered! :z4
(http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/gallery/13_11_02_14_10_21_26.jpeg) (http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=1726)
And the other side...
(http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/gallery/13_11_02_14_10_23_19.jpeg) (http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=1727)
Now I just need the spares to keep this box going and I'm sorted. Salmon and salt I over tied last year so down with that as the young folk say. :z7
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Great stuff Soundmannie :z16
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I am half way there and already well overloaded , i wont embaress myself by posting the daft amount of flies!
Its amazing how many differant scenarios you have to be prepared for :z4
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Probably a bit bright for the camera anyway Baz :z16
Cheers
Mike
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Probably a bit bright for the camera anyway Baz :z16
Cheers
Mike
You would get a chubby if you saw my tradional box Mike :wink
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You would get a chubby if you saw my traditional box Mike :wink
Do you mean it's unshaven? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
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Steven.
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Ok so now i have decided what order to fit the flies for 2014 into the flybox :X2
Looks like 1 box became 2, although they are not that big :z7
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/DSC00550.jpg) (http://s252.photobucket.com/user/skuesapprentice/media/DSC00550.jpg.html)
12 patterns, various sizes. Happy now :z12
Sandy
Very very nice Sandy :z16
That's what I'm aiming for. That's a shitload of DHE and SHEs. What's the black spider pattern?
Cheers
Liam
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... Stewart's Black :X1
Liam
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Question for Sandy... What colour of cdc have you used for the body of the cdc spinner, orange or ginger?
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Liam
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Its rusty orange :z16
Sandy
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Thanks Sandy :z16
Cheers
Liam
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I've just bought three new lines. How can you use old flies with new lines? The very thought.