09-02-2009, 11:49 PM
[quote Scruffy_Fly]A wool fly patch is useless for barbless hooks.
My fly patch is made from the pin I took off of a wool patch. I glued the pin to an old motel room key, the credit card type. Then to the room key I glued a section of an old computer mouse pad. The back side of the mouse pad faces out. It works for holding barbless and debarbed hooks.
But sometimes I still loose flies from it because I have so many on it that I presume I knock some off trying to add to it. I presume some of them get knocked off by bushwacking through heavy brush.
Then on those rare occasions that I untangle "wind knots" I have knocked some off while resting the fly rod against my body or by getting fly line wrapped around the patch.[/quote]
My small "special" fly box for used or wet flies still works
the best. Never last a fly out of it................[
]
Peter
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My fly patch is made from the pin I took off of a wool patch. I glued the pin to an old motel room key, the credit card type. Then to the room key I glued a section of an old computer mouse pad. The back side of the mouse pad faces out. It works for holding barbless and debarbed hooks.
But sometimes I still loose flies from it because I have so many on it that I presume I knock some off trying to add to it. I presume some of them get knocked off by bushwacking through heavy brush.
Then on those rare occasions that I untangle "wind knots" I have knocked some off while resting the fly rod against my body or by getting fly line wrapped around the patch.[/quote]
My small "special" fly box for used or wet flies still works
the best. Never last a fly out of it................[
]Peter
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