Oh my...leave it to DonO to throw a monkey wrench into things...;^) He does have a point...rusted as it may be.
...byard
This brings up a few questions about sealed flyboxes.
I have many older fly box designs that are ventilated to allow the flies inside to dry out completely.
I have newer ones that are semi-sealed but not air-tight.
Now the newer ones are air-tight.
If a wet fly were to get back into the sealed box (accidentally or otherwise), wouldn't the moisture stay inside and rust all of the hooks?
It seems the thinking has changed and I'm not sure why. I've never had a quality hook rust out in my old ventilated boxes. I've never lost a box, but having a floating box might be more important to the lucky person downstream than it is to the wader who lost it.
I dry my flies on my vest patches, but some moisture could be present in the core of a heavy material fly when it is put away that night.
DOnO
