On average how many flies do you carry in your fly boxes?

[Piscator]

On average how many flies do you carry in your fly boxes? If you have more please post how many you carry.

 

[gregorykicks]

I haven't been fishing long enough to own 50 flies in my life.. some day.. some day..

 

[fshfanatic]

I carry 3-5 boxes jammed full. Probably 300+

 

[freeze69]

i carry numerous boxes and flies. i just never know what i might be throwing for or at when i go out. so i've got flies of all different sizes and shapes.

 

[greenriverflyfisher]

I carry between 800 and 1000. I try to always be prepared. Even then, I don't always have what I want.

 

[fshfanatic]

I carry between 800 and 1000. I try to always be prepared. Even then, I don't always have what I want.

Aint that the truth? I never seem to have the exact bug I am looking for.

 

[Woolly]

2 dry bug boxes: 100+
1 nymph box 100+
1 bugger box: 40+
1 streamer box: 30+
1 terrestrial box: 40+
1 smallmouth bug box: 30+
extra bugs at home thay haven't made the cut to the boxes yet: 50-100

It's all good, a guy can never have enough flies!

 

[FISHN50]

Like you guys I carry way too many flies & stuff that most trips I'll never use. I bought a chestpack & I dont use it because I can't fit everything I
think I'm going to need . One of these days I'm going to pick out 6 flies
& just go with them in a shirtpocket. I'm wondereing which of the 999 flies I won't bring.:biggrin:

 

[Joni]

On average how many flies do you carry in your fly boxes?
Which Box!?:icon_wink

 

[greenriverflyfisher]

I have just one really big box. If I ever wade fish again I will need a little red wagon to carry it. I probably have 15 boxes within that one big box.

 

[Frank Whiton]

I assume that the question was about the flies that you carry on your person. I tend to fish the same rivers all of the time and only carry what flies that I am going to use. When fishing from my pontoon boat I use a chest pack and have 3 or 4 small boxes with the flies for the day. Now if you count the flies in the car, it would be a bunch.----Frank

 

[jdgrubbjr]

When wading, I generally carry one box containing approximately 72 dries, one box containing approximately 72 nymphs, and one box containing approximately 36 streamers. When tooning, I usually take four big boxes containing approximately 150 flies since space and weight isn't an issue, which I store in my side pockets. I used to carry one big box while wading until I lost one while taking a dunk several years ago in the backcountry. :icon_cry: I like my odds of having a fly box better with more than one box. :smile:

 

[thredbo]

A little while back I got fed up with carrying so much gear so I did a cull of my flies to get down to 2 boxes (200 flies) from the 4 fly boxes I would normally carry. This season I broke that down to a river box and a lake box.

I find that I have my go to flies so I keep two of each in a range of hook sizes, then I have a number of flies that I carry with me just in case and may only keep a couple of each in their most productive size. Initially it was tough keeping it down to 120 flies all up in each box, but I have never looked back and I am yet to be caught out with only one fly box.

 

[FlyGal]

I carry 300+ easy, yet it's always the fly hot off the vise that I always go for. :icon_roll

 

[Troutwhisperer]

way to many to count, way over 300 +

 

[GRN]

I've caught 90% of my trout all over the northeast in the last 15 years on 15-20 different flies...

Seriously, if you are carrying 300+ flies, you could probably benefit by paying more attention. That's insane.

 

[Ronnie z]

i take enough flies to sink a small barge..lol 500+:icon_lol:

 

[webrx]

I carry about 30 flies on my person, and have a few boxes in the car when I fish the river around here. I am generally only 5 minutes from the car but I have been thinking a lot like GRN lately and am going through what I want to carry with me. My fishing trips generally consist of 3 or 4 hours at a time and I find I am fishing one of 4 or 5 streamers (wooley buggers or sculpins, or wooley worms); 4 or 5 different nymphs (hares ear, caddis pupa, pheasant tail, scuds, prince) and 4 or 5 different dries (adams, elk hair caddis, ants, grasshopper, stonefly). put these together in various colors and a few different sizes and I am not sure there are any other flies I really need to carry. 15 to 20 patterns, 3 different colors (light, medium and dark browns for the dries/nymphs and white, tan or olive, and black for the buggers) and a few different sizes 12, 14, 16. and I thinnk this is my box I am putting together. I think I will leave some room for 4 or 5 flies that are the "hot flies of the week" either from the net here or the local fly shop. My biggest problem is I have been wearing a chest pack, and there is not a lot of room for fly boxes in it so I have to carry the flies in my shirt or wading jacket pocket, because of this, I need a couple small fly boxes for dries and nymphs and I put the streamers in the built in fly carrier in the chest pack.

I am going to continue to play around with this concept until I come up with something I really like, but that is it so far.

Dave

 

[jclampwork88]

I votes 300+ because I carry different stuff for the times of the year. I also carry 10 or more of each pattern so that is why i voted that way.

John

 

[Fly2Fish]

Probably a zillion. After all, if I didn't carry every fly I've ever tied, it would be a confession that all my flies might not be the best fishing choice. :icon_wink