I have light-years less material & light-years more disorganization. Does that balance out?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Don Ordes Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 9:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VFB] Storage & organization of materials I too tie flies for the gamut of fishing, the the giant Fantasy Flies for sale, and then a lot of show flies just for the fun of it. I HAD everything organized, then I had to box it all up to move. I figure by next spring I should have it sorted out and organized again. Where's Buggs and Dr. D when I need their help? DonO -----Original Message----- From: Neville Gosling Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2014 7:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [VFB] Storage & organization of materials One of the pleasant problems of living in British Columbia is the diverse fishing opportunities that it offers the fly fisherman. I start my season in March & April tying chironomid or buzzers as they are known in the UK. This is lake fishing for rainbow trout with usually starts late April for me. Hook sizes from 12 to 18 with 14 the most common. As the season progresses, the rivers which in the early season are high due to seasonal snowmelt drop and river fishing for rainbows and bull trout & dolly varden come into season. This requires weighted flies such as stoneflies and prince nymphs for the rainbows and large heavily weighted attractor flies for the bull trout. Later as the rivers drop further, the opportunity for fishing the dry fly comes usually in sizes 12-16 while smaller & lighter nymphs & soft hackles are also useful. When August comes around, the opportunity for summer run steelhead occur in mid & northern BC, and another lot of flies are required from surface skaters to wet flies, intruders and tube flies dependant upon conditions. Also, at this time of the year, there are runs of pink (every 2nd year) & chinook salmon in the ocean which require different flies from very small to very large. October is coho salmon time in the rivers, and again the most suitable flies are usually a different size and style. Finally, in the winter, there are winter run steelhead which generally require large attractor flies fished deep. I do very little of this, because don't like taking a rock to stand on! As a result, in the past 40 odd years of fly tying, I have built up more tying materials than I have room for, but I never have exactly what I need to tie the particular fly that has caught my eye for a certain fish or application. How do you store your materials? How do you find the materials that you need "right now?" How do you keep them organized? I have tried various ways i.e. by material type - synthetics, foam, fur feathers etc. - By excel spreadsheet and numbered plastic shoe type boxes, sets of numbered plastic drawers - but it is still less than satisfactory. I try to organize my fly boxes by fly and fish type, with one large drawer of trout fly boxes with sub categories for chironomid, dries, nymphs etc and another drawer for steelhead and salmon flies. My fly tying tools also need more organization as I can never seem to find what I want without a search & sometimes, not even then. I would appreciate any ideas that the list members have. Neville (Nev) Gosling Greater Vancouver BC Canada -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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