Gee, what nice flies

[Papasequoia]

Has this ever happened to you? Unlike some people (*cough* Midger *cough*) I don't have dozens (hundreds?) of fly boxes all over the place. Pretty much all the flies I own are the ones I carry with me in five boxes. So, imagine my surprise when rummaging through a bunch of junk today (mostly empty split shot bags, old tippet holders, spare backing, etc.) I came across a one-sided box of dry flies all lined up in a nice, neat row. I think during one of those "how should I reorganize my fly boxes?" frenzies I put a bunch of summer type flies in a separate box. In my regular box I have Adams and BWOs and a few others, but this box is full of beetles, ants, gnats, humpys, and mosquitoes along with a few odd ones like Sierra Brite Dots and some kind of yellow parachute caddis that may be trying to imitate a yellow sally. Very cool, I wonder what else is underneath that pile of junk?

[rkfiske]

Has this ever happened to you? Unlike some people (*cough* Midger *cough*) I don't have dozens (hundreds?) of fly boxes all over the place. Pretty much all the flies I own are the ones I carry with me in five boxes. So, imagine my surprise when rummaging through a bunch of junk today (mostly empty split shot bags, old tippet holders, spare backing, etc.) I came across a one-sided box of dry flies all lined up in a nice, neat row. I think during one of those "how should I reorganize my fly boxes?" frenzies I put a bunch of summer type flies in a separate box. In my regular box I have Adams and BWOs and a few others, but this box is full of beetles, ants, gnats, humpys, and mosquitoes along with a few odd ones like Sierra Brite Dots and some kind of yellow parachute caddis that may be trying to imitate a yellow sally. Very cool, I wonder what else is underneath that pile of junk?

Oh thank heaven you found them. Just hold on to them and you can return them to me on the 1st of July If you find any more of my flies let me know.

[beachbum]

What a great find, Jon! Any flies Ryan doesn't want, I will be glad to fish for you.

[Flyjunkie]

Keep them for Yourself... You'll need them in the Summer.....

[rayfound]

This has never happened to me. I'll have to consider hiding a bunch of flies from myself sometime when I'm Drunk (so I won't remember where they are).

Sounds even better than finding a $20 bill in the jacket you haven't worn in 8 months.

[lucfish]

This actually happened to me two weeks ago. With the wife in Florida I decided to take all my boxes that I stored in my vest and storage area and sort them all out in the kithen table. After about 4 hours I'm finally done and go to put them away when I find a cupfull of flies in the storage area where the boxes go. Looking at the plastic cup I remember buying them at the Trout Fly a couple of years ago. There was like 40 flies in there all hot creek and East Walker flies. I was a little mad at myself since now I had to rearrange the boxes once again, but now I'm happy i've got enough flies (for now) and won't be needing any the next time I go to the Eastern Sierras!!!

[hip]

Nice find !
This happens to me quite a bit.

I have flies stashed all over the place (especially in my car) in all kinds of different boxes. I make fly boxes out of old eyeglass cases, Tupper ware, Altoid tins whatever I see usable for a fly box. I have specialty boxes for all different species of fish. Striper boxes, Corbina, general surf fishing, Barracuda, Carp, Trout (separated into dry /streamer/ nymphs), Steelhead, Tuna, Calico Bass, LMB and then to top it off I have duplicates of certain boxes I use to fish with on my paddle board.

Another place is the inside brim of my baseball cap. I stash flies in the sweat band when I don't feel like carrying a box and forget about them.

So yeah this happens to me a lot