Vintage Fly Fishing

[DADAKOTA]

Found some fly fishing items as well as some old mono spools.

[kjackson]

Very cool.  Some of that stuff I recognize--the Perrine boxes if they're not Wheatley's, and I still have and use some of the lead wire on those small spools.  

I've been the lucky recipient of fly-fishing gifts from folks who knew I was addicted.  I have several old flies in packages that I need to do something with besides leave in their cellophane jail cells.  One guy gave me his fly-tying kit that he had been given when he was in hospital recovering from wounds in WWII. While the feathers were pretty much toast, I did get a Thompson A and a lot of hooks packaged with government labels covering the originals from Alcock's and others. And one friend I took fishing hit a garage/estate sale and bought the fly stuff and gave me all the tying material. Considering the previous owner had prepped materials for a lot of flies and had his recipes and instructions along with the materials, it was a hit.

The only problem is that I have more material and stuff than I can ever use unless I turn commercial--which would limit my fishing time.

[tjm]

I'm a vintage fly fisher, been tying on a Thompson A since 1976, still have odds and ends of feathers and materials from about that time, still tying on hooks that I bought in bulk about '78 when I contemplated commercial tying, use Perrine boxes always and most of the time I use one of the dozen? vintage fiberglass fly rods I own.

The boxes look like Perrines, if so,  the  large Perrine box in the picture is #99, I think, and has places for 20 snelled flies, 60 eyed flies and 6 lure compartments, per the catalog page, it is one that I don't have because I never snelled my flies. The small box would be #60 or #67 (3/4" or 7/8" thick) and has clips for 60 wet flies.

The round leader tins were for soaking spare gut leaders so that you could replace a leader on the stream, gut was before my time, since nylon monofilament was invented in 1954 and by the '60s was widely accepted.

[Gavin]

The leader tins are pretty cool, you don't see those very often. I agree that the boxes look like Perrine's. Flies appear to be unserviceable.