refilling fly box

Sometimes the cheapest price is not the best price - make sure you get quality hooks!!

Kastmasterpro has 700 flies for sale..

I have a bunch of scrambled eggs how about 50 for $25 obo..can do more, PM about making deal

Jebs right...

hooks, mcfly foam, pearl braid

$15 gets you 100flies

ORIGINAL: JEB

Not trying to spound like a smart ****, but why dont you get a vise and start tying your own. Its not that hard and its something to due in the off season. I too got tired of paying a buck a fly and thats how I got started. Sucker spawn, scrambled eggs, crystal spawn are all very easy to tie. its worth the investment if you fish Erie a lot, plus its very satisfying to catch a fish on a fly you tied yourself. Buy your hooks in bulk and a good supply of material and it will last a long time. You can get started with a cheaper vise and advance from there if you like it. Just my advice ! I can tie most steelhead patterns for about $.25 each or less.

When is the "off season"?  I don't have an off season, spring is trout and turkey, summer is bass, musky, bowfishing, other fishes, groundhog, and crow, fall is waterfowl, archery, small game, winter is waterfowl, bear, deer, and ice fishing.  This year I am going to add steelhead to my collection also.  I don't even have time to do everything I already love to do.  I used to tie when I was younger just for fun then I started driving and would rather be outside hunting or fishing then inside no matter what the weather is.  I won't live forever, so I want to make the most of my time.  Now maybe once I get married and have kids that will change and tieing will be something I can do in the house, but till then There just isn't enough time in the day/week/year to add something else to the collection already at hand, so if he is like me then there is no off season to tie his own.

ORIGINAL: frost

ORIGINAL: JEB

Not trying to spound like a smart ****, but why dont you get a vise and start tying your own. Its not that hard and its something to due in the off season. I too got tired of paying a buck a fly and thats how I got started. Sucker spawn, scrambled eggs, crystal spawn are all very easy to tie. its worth the investment if you fish Erie a lot, plus its very satisfying to catch a fish on a fly you tied yourself. Buy your hooks in bulk and a good supply of material and it will last a long time. You can get started with a cheaper vise and advance from there if you like it. Just my advice ! I can tie most steelhead patterns for about $.25 each or less.

When is the "off season"?  I don't have an off season, spring is trout and turkey, summer is bass, musky, bowfishing, other fishes, groundhog, and crow, fall is waterfowl, archery, small game, winter is waterfowl, bear, deer, and ice fishing.  This year I am going to add steelhead to my collection also.  I don't even have time to do everything I already love to do.  I used to tie when I was younger just for fun then I started driving and would rather be outside hunting or fishing then inside no matter what the weather is.  I won't live forever, so I want to make the most of my time.  Now maybe once I get married and have kids that will change and tieing will be something I can do in the house, but till then There just isn't enough time in the day/week/year to add something else to the collection already at hand, so if he is like me then there is no off season to tie his own.

 
I wish I had the time do do all of that, but with being a grown up comes responsibilty as well. Work, wife, kids. I can't spend all of my time in the outdoors and ignore my family, like you said, lifes too short and I'd ratrher spend it with my kids and wife than alone in the woods or on the H2O. Now I do spend time taking my kids fishing, camping and hiking, so I do try to mix the two together. Enjoy your youth FROST, you'll have to grow up one day though !

O believe me I know about growing up and responsibilities.  I am sitting in Iraq now with the army, I worked a full time job, till I left for here and the company went under, and I am the "man of the house".  I may only be 23, but I know full well about all the "fun" of being an adult.  Being the oldest child with a single mom, I grew up quick at the young age of 10 to help around the house and help with the younger brother.  I started working the day I turned 15 and have had a job ever since.  My mom didn't want me to start work till I graduated, but with my love of the outdoors comes the expense of it, and I paid for everything myself when it came to that stuff.  I saved up my first 5 paychecks or so to buy my own rifle.  I have never been "handed" anything and I never really cared to have it just handed to me.  If I wanted something bad enough I would work for it.

I can't stand to see the youth of today, yes I know I can still be classified under that, handed everything.  I remember in school when my friends would be driving around in a brand new mercedes or bmw that mommy and daddy just gave them and did nothing but party. I was driving around in a POS ford escort and had to go to work directly after school till 9 or 10 then go home do the chores and homework and wake up to do it all over the next day.  Joined the army my senior year just to be able to go to college, which thanks to the army, I still haven't got to do, but I love every minute I'm in uniform (ok maybe not every minute), I even just reinlisted for another 6 years.  Maybe out of these 6 years I'll be able to get back to school.

This fall/winter will be a fun one because once I get back from Iraq I will have 4 months to do nothing but spend time with the family and hunt/fish.  Then come the beginning of the year, it'll be back to a full time job and then school.

ORIGINAL: rapala11

you are one fine young man, frost.  i will pray for your safe return.  don't seem to be enough like you anymore.  kudos.

 
Well stated ! Frost you're ok in my book, just watch how you state things, people can take them the wrong way.
The off season was meant to refer to June, July and most of August when the steelies aren't in the creeks.