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"We have met the enemy and it is us",

Pogo

   If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend"

Lefty Kreh

    " Never display your knowledge, you only share it"

Lefty Kreh

         "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!"

BilletHead

    " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting"

BilletHead

  P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs"

BilletHead

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Have not tied a wet fly in years.  Closest I come anymore is a soft hackle. Those wings are tricky to get laying right.

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."

Hunter S. Thompson

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My ex-FIL had an old Navy survival kit that had a few flys in it.  A black gnat wetfly and a yellow wolly-worm, both had red tails, and some silk line.

The oddest thing in the kit was a wooden matchbox with 3 little brass rings in it that had sharp edges on one side.   Any idea what that would have been for?    He had no idea what their intended purpose was, but he had seen a guy use them once to close a bad cut (in lieu of stitches).  

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I was given the fishing  part of a survival  kit once a long  time ago, nothing really but a curiosity thing, but the flies looked like in the video and were poorly constructed, first fish would have mangled them, I think. Several survival kits listed here Interesting that some contain condoms. But also interesting is that some kits had gold coins and gold rings that could in theory be used to buy safety.

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4 hours ago, tjm said:

I was given the fishing  part of a survival  kit once a long  time ago, nothing really but a curiosity thing, but the flies looked like in the video and were poorly constructed, first fish would have mangled them, I think. Several survival kits listed here Interesting that some contain condoms. But also interesting is that some kits had gold coins and gold rings that could in theory be used to buy safety.

Condoms are small water containers.

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."

Hunter S. Thompson

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6 minutes ago, jdmidwest said:

Condoms are small water containers.

That's not what  the Navy Doc said.

But just out of curiosity, how much water can you carry in one? seems like it spill out easy?

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All the ones I have used swell up and get bigger like a balloon.

You can pack a coin size one, not lubricated, and have something to collect a pint or so of water.

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."

Hunter S. Thompson

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