Fly Fishing

Matt1515

I woke up and drove almost two hours to a stream. I arrived, marked out a nice hole with some large fish, put on my gear, strung my rod, attatched leader and tippet, looked down, no flies. I left three boxes of flies on the counter at home. Promise you've never heard language like what came out of my mouth. The closest fly shop was almost an hour and half away. I did what I had to do. Drove the hour and half. The worst part was spending the 40 bucks on flies when I have hundreds at my house. Anyone else done that?

jeremy · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject: rod

i have wadered up and all that stuff .. been far from home and brought the bottom half of a 6 weight and the top half of a 9 weight .... obviously, they don't fit .... and i scratched my head for a while ... and didn't fish ... nothin' i could do .. that stunk.

jinxed247 · Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 9:47 am Post subject:

That sucks...I have done the same thing that Jeremy did but luckily I had some tape with me and taped the two together. It wasn't pretty but it beat not fishing! I have also driven off with my flies on top of my truck! That sucked hardcore because I never found those flies. And one time (no not at bandcamp!) I forgot to zip up a vest pocket that had my flies in it and when I bent over they got lost in the current of the river so I had to search the treeline along the river for flies in the branches and managed to find a few! It's not over till it's over! I have also driven to a hunting spot and forgot the bullets...but that's for a different site.

JoeD · Newbie Joined: Jan 18, 2006 Posts: 15

Matt1515,

Forget your flies? I've never done that. I make it a point to make sure I have all the flies I could possibly need packed in the truck before I leave. The trick is to place your vehicle's keys on top of your tackle bag, this way you can't start the engine unless you have the flies.

Now, rods, waders, reels, rain gear... that's another whole topic!

Matt1515 · Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:23 pm Post subject:

I had plenty of gear with me, just not the other 50% of the equasion. I had been tying and preparing my boxes the night before. When I was putting up my fly tying materials, I stuck my fly boxes right on top of my vice box, put it away and went outside to get some more gear together. It was some brilliant work on my part. The day ended up being shot on the fishing anyway because after two hours of getting skunked, I headed another thirty minutes to another creek and the wrath of god unleashed a storm that was unbelievable. Couldn't see the hood of the car much less the road. Only ended up with one fish the whole day. My fishing karma was absent that day for sure.

Marcel_Karssies · Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:30 pm Post subject:

It is quite disturbing to end up on a trip without the right gear.
Happened to me on some occasions so everytime I forget something
or extra equipment would be handy I will write it down on a list.

My bags are now packed with the checklist in hand to minimize errors.
Tomorrow I am going on a short unplanned trip to Germanies Harz mountains so we will see how accurate the list is by now.

dugger · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:06 pm Post subject: forgotten flies

I have done this on occasion so I always keep a small assortment of flies in my Jeep and my Pickup truck. Thatway I always have a few flies maynot be the one I wanted but at least I was able to fish.

bonefisher · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject:

brought rods.... searching through my bag for reels... reels... where did i put them......... frustrating