Re: [VFB] system x boxes

[mark romero]

"Put away that night." Holy cow Don, you must be more anal that me. LMAO. 
Any fly i use hardly ever makes it back to a fly box, once outta there. 
Usually it ends up in one of my two patches, (one being fleece, the other a 
Japanese magnetic patch/box worn on the outside), and from there it 
continues to be used until unuseable or lost. They go from vise or fly shop 
to box, to fish, to patch, to fish or tree, or to being given away. But back 
to box later that night........lol. mark.....

From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [VFB] system x boxes
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 16:40:46 -0800
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

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