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The other day I was retrieving a $2 fly stuck in a willow bush and had set my rod on the ground... stepped back, got my foot stuck on a rock, fell on my butt directly on my Fenwick 6wt and"SNAP!" right in half. So I went to the truck, got my 4wt, and continued fishing. Skunked. What a day.
Ugh...that's the worst! Very sorry to hear that happened.
Holding my fenwick a little tighter after reading this. Sorry man
😭
Haven’t done that..but last year broke 2 rods in 30 minutes 😑. First the truck door barely caught the tip of my 4wt laying across bed cover. 1/2 hour later using 5wt, fly hung in bush..yanked to get it out..Snap! By chance had my 6wt also..fished Very carefully the rest of the day 😂. I could fix tip of 4wt and TFO replaced 5wt section for a small shipping fee. Sorry for your loss of flies Dan.🙁 Maybe get a big magnet, I have a 48”rolling one for nails on jobs. Picked up countless hooks and some flies in grass along river banks also. Have a great weekend Flyfish! Fish On! 👍👌🎣
Thanks for sharing Charlie - we all certainly have experience these sorts of things...I appreciate hearing your story!
Darn. It happens all the time. I live in Wyoming and wind blows strong all the time. I never use those magnets fly box. Always have your wind behind your back and use fishpond tacky fly box. Even then I loose few flies that fly off. Lesson learned. Tight line.
Definitely a lesson learned
I've never had that happen...yet. But I do use those boxes. I will be paying much more attention from here on out. Sorry for your loss. My condolences.
First time for everything for sure - just really bad timing and a windy day
That sucks 😞. I took a spill wading this winter , and lost a $500 rod/ reel set up down river. Went back a few times after the water dropped but no luck 😢.
Ugh, I've been there too - sorry to hear that!
i wondering where all those new flies came from that I found. pretty good quality too, thanks Flyfishdan! In all seriousness, yes been there just not to that magnitude.
Lol - no kidding, such a gut punch. Thank goodness I have way too many flies :))
That would suck, I only use those magnetic boxes for my tungsten beads and hooks storing them on my desk for tying flies. I never really thought about using them to keep flies in them. I’m a true believer of the foam boxes and now you just showed me why.
Lesson learned for sure - not for small little BWO's and other tiny flies
Fished this week, stood in the middle of the river, started a new cast, on the back cast, 5# rod snapped clean in half on the 2nd section, that was the end of that trip
Ugh...I always bring two rods, just in case!
I feel you!! Damn fly fishing at times! Haha trying to be positive after a negative is the toughest part. Then we get up and do it again! Haha
I rallied...just took a couple of hours. Sharing the experience with the community helps too :))
I have lost and entire box of flies while wading... nothing more crushing than wading to the middle of the river only to discover you had forgot to lock that pouch on the front and you see your floating fly box float away downstream....
I left my pack open during steelheading and lost my forceps...then I found them on the bank the next day. :)) But you are right, hate that feeling!
Took up fly fishing again after I retired. Bought some entry level equipment. First few times out I took it easy. Found a nice place to enter the river fairly clear for casting and had a great time. So I decided to step it up and hike a mile and half through some rough terrain to a place I fished in my twenties. By the time I got to the “SPOT” I had ripped a nice hole in my waders, lost half the tools attached to my fishing vest and damaged my new net. It was at least $300 replacing these items. I’m reloaded and ready to do it again 😂😂😂! Thanks for the share! I think I’ll stay away from those magnetic fly boxes.
That's the worst! Thanks for sharing your story
Gravity is undefeated
Gravity 1, FFD 0
It's what the folks who come after you call river treasures. Never ceases to amaze me what folks leave along the river bank...
Might be a tough find for anyone...but I am glad Skip Morris turned in my Sage TCR and Hardy reel when I left it on the Clark Fork to the local fly shop vs. keeping it for himself. I am a firm believer of karma - and he has good karma!
Here's my $300 (probably less...) GONE story, FFD. Lived north of your neck of the woods, circa 2010 or so. Used to fish with a small waist bag that contained my spare G Loomis reel spool with sinking line and ALL of my accruements including flies, which at the time fit in only one fly box. I left the bag at a lake one day and yeah, never got any of it back. The only saving grace is that I was still in my "I fly fish and spin/cast fish" phase, so I didn't have the kind of sling full of everything I bring to the river now. Sorry to hear about your flies, flying away 🙃 - but they'll make more. ☮ from Idaho.
Ugh - I hate leaving things behind...I've done that way too many times to count!
Where I live fly boxes full of flies or continuously lost and found. It's a good idea to put your phone number on all your fly boxes.
I haven't lost the whole box of flies, but I sure have had all of my tippet spools drop off my spool holder and float away from me down the river. Good times.
Ouch! Not a cheap loss for sure!
Lol. Next time I hike in I’ll store those waders in a backpack. Also, I replaced the vest with a sling pack and repaired the net with some 30 lbs mono. Thanks for the reply. I’ve certainly enjoyed your videos and lessons.
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My heart ACHES for you (or more specifically your pocket book). It wasn’t long ago I was looking to buy one of those magnetic flyboxes similar to the one I owned when I started fly fishing in Yakima back in the early 1990s. Now I’m going to seriously reconsider that idea. $300 is nothing to sniff at if you’re like me and don’t tie your own flies. I’m really sorry this happened to you. 🙃
Sucks for sure - never even considered that could be a possibility - now I know!
In late July 2017, on my birthday, the water in the Sierras was still very high. I walked out on a log over the middle of the river, not realizing my vest pocket was unzipped, and out fell my double-sided fly box, chalk full of flies - over a hundred dries in the one side, and that many nymphs in the other side. Gone. The river was running a little too fast, and the banks were a little too brushy to try to chase it down. I had three flies left for the day - one on my hat, and the two on my rig. That was a rough birthday.
Ugh - that helpless feeling seeing it float away...and not worth falling in and drowning either. I feel your pain!
My brother and I were fishing the Yakima river canyon last year, and he found a double sided large box stuffed full of dry flies. One of the gaskets was leaky so half were rusty. I’ve never had my flies blow away in the wind though… yet.
Someone probably dropped that box in the river and away she went...fish long enough, and it will happen!
Nope, not in 30 years. When I started out flyfishing in the 1990s, I had a couple wheatley boxes with the spring lids. I had an accident very similar to yours when I opened a few of the small bins and a gust of wind took the flies and they were gone. A week later, so were the boxes as I sold/traded them and went over the foam lined boxes I have used ever since.
I love the concept of the magnet boxes...but man, now I don't want them. Lol
How true, and I have yet to fish with that reel, even though I did manage to have it spooled up to fish with a 7WT rod. In my own defense, it does have a nice click to it like the first fly reel I purchased at Yakima Sport & Fish. 😇
A fishing tip from me: only being as many lures/flies as you need to fish with for the day. I typically bring 2-3 spinner for my entire day of fishing so I don’t have to worry about anything happening to an entire tackle box. Fish on.
Very true...then there's always that time that a hatch happens...and no flies....my biggest fear!
I had this happen to me on the Joe. Luckily I found most of them!! It sucked up a good hour of prime time evening rise though
Mine just vanished...like forever :(
Happened to me back in March 😬
Well Dan, I can't say that I have lost $300 of flies in one fell swoop. What a bummer. However, I have dropped a brand new reel spool with a brand new $100 + fly line on it in a lake, lost a cell phone in a lake and I broke my favorite rod earlier this week :( I just tell myself "if you spend enough time on the water sh*t happens".
Ugh...sorry to hear and well said. sh*t definitely happens! (often)
I’ve have dropped the box in the river twice. Luckily the person I was fishing with both times was on the bank and ran down stream and got it. Once on a forwarded stroke I knocked my sun glasses into a 6 foot deep hole never to be seen again. Wife was pissed about that one. They were about 250$.
It definitely happens, sorry to hear about that!
Dude that sucks I lost a fly box once it pissed me off pretty bad I feel your pain
Hurts for sure...considering how expensive the flies are both to buy and tie
Harbor freight magnet.
Likely - crap holding power
YEP! I was poling my BC1610 On a flat. I stuck my pole in sand and attached my rope. I got down to assist my customer with a tarpon photo and release. As I got down the boat wiggled. I thought the The line came off the pole. I was trying to help the customer and I didn’t look back. The pole had pulled out and floated away. I quickly released the poon and jumped on the ignition. Thank god after 15 minutes I saw my pole floating. That was a $300 dollar carbon fiber pole. Whew!!!
Great story, thank you for sharing!
Darn !!! 😮 talk about bad luck !! Feel bad for you. Any luck whit that only fly ??
I know right!? It's a good fly, high vis PMD :))
I hope nobody walks around there later in bare feet!😲
No kidding!
Yeah, that really does SUCK!! But the more I emerge myself in this sport, the more I’m learning about vintage fly fishing gear (like that Ocean City fly reel I purchased off eBay from someone in Enumclaw for example). After this mishap, have you considered adding that fly box to your collection of vintage gear? Just a thought. 😇
Vintage gear is pretty cool...just heavy generally
Sorry to hear that happened
I can feel your pain. Brother 😢
Gut punch for sure
Oh man. That sucks.
Yes indeed, lesson learned! Stick with foam boxes
@@FlyFishDan Absolutely!!!
I’ve got about 300 up in tress around the west
I've got a few hangin too :))
Harbour freight magnet?????
Lol, exactly
I carry a retractable magnet in my vest It has paid off several times. Dropping bead head flies and getting them back and not even able to see them on the stream bottom. $10 investment.
Probably a smart investment I should consider for sure
RIP to all the critters and possibly pets that step on or eat one of those.
I know right! 15 minutes on hands and knees...only one fly caught in the crack of the asphalt.
This won't help wind born flies but I took some return address labels and stuck one on each of my fly boxes with a piece of scotch tape over the label. 50-50 chance if someone downriver finds it they might return it to you.
Sucks that happened. Rethinking my mag boxes now.
Definitely don't invest in the cheapies...the magnets are not created equal (this box was a cheap fly shop branded box).
They aren't for dry flies brother...Midges work the best with the magnet... Iv'e learned the hard way too...
But they fit so nicely...until I dropped the box...Lol
I know, I was like, "What the heck happened"??? LOL!!
Had to put an end to my fishing session after dropping my eyeglasses in four feet of frigid water. Tough to fish blind!
Dang...that would suck
...I feel your pain...I just have too many to list...🤔🤔🤔...lol...not lol...
Well I see in your future some shopping for flies.
Indeed! My loss will be a fly shops gain :))
I had a bag fall in a river and float down stream, out of sight. I gave up and went to the bar. All I caught that day was a buzz.
I would have done the same...all you can do is just watch it keep going and going and going down river...I literally just stared as the gust of wind just erased every fly...UGH
I was getting into my new float tube and broke my 6wt Sage.😢
Oh god....oooooooof.
Bummer , that why we don’t use them .
Not a fan anymore either!
You got off cheap. Let me tell ya about this bar fly I once picked up.
😂 Lol! 👍👍👌 They can get expensive!
Lol!
Sounds like you didn’t look that hard😅
I totally did! They were gone, invisible...all the flies were 16 and smaller and they blew into grass and shrubs. GONE
420th view lol good thing you tie like a boss!
I'm not that good (yet)... :))
Ha, yep. Even downunder ... 2 wks agon bent over to do my wading boots up and forceps temp clipped onto my belt went straight through the thigh of my waders. Funny how you can tell what a sound is even though you've never heard it before. Not as bad as my mate who left his Douglas sitting on the roof and drove off ... Cheers from Oz PP
Ouch! Thanks for sharing that - heck of a way to end a trip!