08-30-2009, 10:58 PM
The water proof boxes can rust your flies quicker than a non water proof one. Just put a wet wooly bugger into your water proof fly box and wait a week and see how all the rest of your flies in that compartment look. You effectively are sealing them all in what will quickly turn to a high humidity sealed chamber.
Now if you are falling into the river a lot or dropping your fly boxes a lot. Water proof boxes will be a big benefit.
But on the other hand I have wader across rivers before and continued fishing. By the time I get home my vest is dried out but unknown to me I had waded deep enough that the fly boxes in the bottom pockets of my vest got wet. I did not open the boxes to air them out. A week later I had three boxes of rusty flies. The one box that had a number of air gaps was just fine. No rusty flies. (none of my boxes are water proof)
Either way you go you are likely to end up with rusty flies at some point unless you routinely air them out.
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Now if you are falling into the river a lot or dropping your fly boxes a lot. Water proof boxes will be a big benefit.
But on the other hand I have wader across rivers before and continued fishing. By the time I get home my vest is dried out but unknown to me I had waded deep enough that the fly boxes in the bottom pockets of my vest got wet. I did not open the boxes to air them out. A week later I had three boxes of rusty flies. The one box that had a number of air gaps was just fine. No rusty flies. (none of my boxes are water proof)
Either way you go you are likely to end up with rusty flies at some point unless you routinely air them out.
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