If you lost your vest?

Ever give any thought to what it would cost to replace all the "STUFF" in and on your fly fishing vest including the cost of the vest. It's almost nightmarish to think about it. How about a couple estimates. No need to itemize unless you have a real compulsion and time to do so. About 20 years ago someone went into my garage and took a vest, several poles, large tacle box and various other stuff. I had to write an itemized list to turn into my home insurance carrier and was surprised(especially my wife)at how much money I had tied up in that stuff.

I haven't used a vest in years, but if someone should abscond with ONE of the dropshot bags in my boat, I'd be out over $300.

I've actually lost a vest...well it was stolen. At one point I got rid of a tackle box and had everything I owned fishing wise (minus minnow bucket and rods) in a vest. I figured it would be easier to walk through the woods to the places that I fished from shore.

I was up Pymatuning going into Poffs to go get bait to fish the causeway. I left the vest in the front set of the car and went in to get bait. The window was up but door was unlocked. I came back and got to the causeway. When I went to grab my vest I realized it wasn't there. I combed through craigslist and other places seeing if it would ever turn up, of course it didn't.

I had to replace everything and it sucked horribly.

I actually have one vest for steel, one for trout, and one for saltwater. The one with the saltwater flies in it I would hate to replace. Dem flees beez ex-pen-siv!

A vest with a bunch of flies don't compare to a 5 tray bag full of heddon top water and rapala lures.. Mine was stolen a few years ago I am still replacing them.... Definitely well over 5 big ones and still don't have all I did have

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A vest with a bunch of flies don't compare to a 5 tray bag full of heddon top water and rapala lures.. Mine was stolen a few years ago I am still replacing them.... Definitely well over 5 big ones and still don't have all I did have

I don't know about that..
I have some fly boxes that hold 500 flies and are full.
At a buc a fly they add up.

Don't wear the vest anymore but carry a bag with all my fly boxes in and just pull out the one or two I need for the day.
That tackle bag has over 20 fly boxes in it and most are full.

For hard tackle with over 150 Rapalas alone I shudder at the cost to replace it all. Main bag was inventoried 15 years ago and was at over $2500, it has more than doubled since then.

The fly vest for me maybe $200. My walleye and all around box $1200+ my bass box, or should I say duffle bag, well over $3000 worth or sheet in there not to mention the rods!

Odd that we got on the whole discussion. My green van was once broken in to and all they took were a bunch of CD's, a pair of binos' and some prescription drugs for acid reflux . At the time there were about 20 bamboo rods in the back and my fishing gear. It occurred when I went down to central PA right after an Oil City outing. Probably some pillbillies who didn't know value.