As I get older my responsibilities have increased and it becomes more challenging to fish as much as I would like. One of my personal goals is to become more efficient and streamlined so that I can best take advantage of opportunities to fish that come along. Many of the people on the list have great ideas based on years of flyfishing. What are your best tips to make your flyfishing and flytying more time efficient? I'll share my most recent changes:
1. I have seperate chest packs and rod tubes each loaded with the gear and rods necessary for my major types of fishing (saltwater and trout). The rod tubes are the type that carries the rod and reel attached. There are some redundancies of gear in the two packs - but the only item necessary to switch from one pack to the other is my license - reducing fiddling around time and hassle. 2. I took my 20-30 most commonly tied fly patterns and for each pattern loaded an 8 1/2 x 11 clear zip loc bag with all the materials necessary for that pattern and labeled it as such. Again, a lot of redundancy but now everything is organized and ready to tie in bulk amounts. And, if we are going on a longer trip I can quickly grab the bags with the patterns I may need to replenish during the trip. I also bought a second vise, and a complete set of tools packed in a small container for road trips.
