so there's a few things i've learned over the years from some very good fly tires have helped
me a lot and they're actually not techniques and i have learned a lot of good techniques
from fly tires but they're more to do with how i i do things here in my fly tying area little
things have helped me a lot and the first one i'll tell you has got to do with these magnets and how
important they are to helping you when you've done what i've done and you've all done it and that
is when you dropped a hook if you know what i'm talking about you drop a hook and or a fly it hits
the carpet and you can't find it and it's like oh no and especially if you're like me sometimes
i have a little tv tray and i like to sit there and watch the hockey game or the football game
and ty flies and i dropped something off the table try not to do it but always a big panic so
the thing i've learned and somebody taught me this is to get one of these and you've probably
seen them at your local hardware store automotive stores etc and it's a magnet on a pole they have
different types you can get the round like this or you can get the long bars but the key is you take
this when you drop a hook and you can't see it and start going around on your carpet or on your floor
whether the case may be a hardwood floor and you're trying to find it and also you hear tink
and you found your hook these things are invaluable especially i don't know what
it is when you drop a hook on carpet you think it would slow it down from bouncing if anything it's
almost like a springboard just bounces off into the distance so when you drop a hook if you've
got one of these it can save the day so you don't step on it your dog doesn't step on it or your
spouse or anybody is you don't want a hook lane on the floor these are really invaluable to have
the second tip i have has to do with magnets again this time in a dish
i don't know if you've ever seen these before as i know some of you had uh they're again at
automotive stores hardware stores etc but they're magnetic dishes you got a
earth magnet on the bottom and what's great there you are and you want to put some hooks off to the
side you're busy tying you can just take your hook boom it'll go in here and guess what it
doesn't fall out in fact you take a fly here's a there's a fly right here take this fly like this
sticks perfect i mean these are made to put screws washers nails whatever when people are
working on their car you're doing something on a piece of machinery whatever the case may be
these are really handy and for fly tires i'm surprised so many people don't know about these
they're fantastic um again i like to sometimes watch uh sports or watch a movie with my wife or
the crown and we're sitting there i put this dish in the corner and i'm trying to put three or four
hooks in to close the box but i know they're not gonna fall out of this the dish may fall on the
ground but the likelihood of these bouncing out these hooks is pretty low so one of these magnetic
dishes and they have different sizes of them but this one's like a medium size i recommend you get
these for fly tying they're great on your table i have actually got a couple of them or having one
where you move around different places or even i have one that's in my little satchel that i take
over to friends when a bunch of us gets together to tie flies i just put it there on the table
right away because i know it's i gotta throw some hooks in there i've got to put flies in whatever
the case may be anything that's magnet that i want to use the the magnets in this for it's perfect
the last item i want to show you is cursey of the people at meo and mio is the company
i talked about a while ago that makes some really great boxes a friend of mine told me about them
he's a competitive fly fisher and he told me about how everybody in the competitive fly fishing world
in the united states and canada had discovered them from the europeans who were very big on them
and that's these boxes that they make now first let me show you like this is one of their fly
boxes and i'll talk about these in another uh future video but what i'm talking about here
are these organizers the people at meo when i they found out i did the video contacted me
and they sent me a couple of these and they're absolutely fantastic for getting organized and
some of you know i'm kind of big on getting organized and what's great you see these little
dishes in here there's all my beads and i got one for cone heads uh you can use it for all types of
hooks small hooks etcetera but what's really cool about these i'm going to show you you know
each one you open them up you got a nice little perfect dish but what i even like better is that
when i organize them you can either use a marker to write on the bottom of them
or conversely you can use tape to mark on the bottom and this is my dyna tape mark on
the bottom with the sizes so this one i know is the 3.2 millimeter it's 1 8 of an inch and it's
tungsten i can see obviously they're fluorescent but that's not the thing i want to know the sizes
especially if i'm reading a pattern and they're recommending a certain size of bead or cone head
and these boxes are fantastic because got a great latch here to hold them together
and i can stick them in my bag when i'm going over their friends and they're
they're handy or converse so i can take only what i need out of here take these small little dishes
um because i got to tell you like i tried using tubes like this with the little lids on it and
they're good don't get me wrong they're great and for some people they're probably the best thing
but i found these because you can hang them up on a hook they got a little tag here to hang them up
probably made for putting up in the store but i use them behind me here and i hang them up and
i'm i'm just i'm gonna buy some more of these i think they're about 16 they're not that expensive
that includes all the little dishes in them and really well built really well built so
if you're trying to get organized this is a great tip for fly time these meal boxes are fantastic
because you can get everything organized in terms of hooks other pieces such as cone heads beads etc
these are fantastic for getting organized and knowing what you have or when you're running out
or for transporting if you're going up to a cottage you're going in the field or you're just
going over to our friends and you want to take some of your different assortments of beat heads
or or hooks this gets you organized and keeps them all together and i hope these fly tying tips
which really aren't fly tying tips they're more about being organized again and little tips for
around where you like to tie flies but i hope they help you i find these boxes the magnets the dish
and of course you know how i feel about these labelers they're absolutely fantastic if you
want to get organized if you want to keep your fly tying area safe get the magnet get the box and in
future videos we're going to talk more about some of the boxes that this company meal makes and
before you're wondering no they're not sponsoring me they actually sent me some boxes after sema one
video and i got to tell you they make their stuff for spin fishing it's fantastic uh but i'll talk
about that in another flight uh another video because i want to tell you about these boxes
because they're really cool anyways thanks for watching and i hope you have a great season
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