The box measures 3" x 4" x ½" deep. Its small size allows you to put one or two in an ordinary shirt pocket. Three or four will vanish inside your fishing vest with space to spare, and they also fit nicely into most chest packs.

We designed this box to carry medium to small flies including nymphs, midges, CDC’s, wet flies, terrestrials, streamers, egg patterns and very small hackled dry flies. Depending on size, the box can hold 12 dozen flies or more.

The lid of the box is clear polycarbonate so you can see your flies at a glance, without opening it. The magnetic pad has a special flat white vinyl covering so you can see the color and shape) of each individual fly. The shallow depth makes it easy to retrieve flies with your fingers. (Tip: Push the surrounding flies away from the one you want and then pick it out.) Putting a fly back is super easy: make room and drop it in place! You’ll be amazed to see how easy this is.

Under normal fishing conditions the flies will not shift around in the box. They stay put! If you drop the box on a rock they will shift, but it is easy to shove them back with your finger. There is no wind, short of a hurricane, that will liberate your flies from an open box. There are other lower price imitations of our box which fail the shake out and blow out tests. Check it out!

Our fly box weighs 3.8 oz.. It’s small but, because of the magnet, it’s heavier than a same size plastic box with foam in it. A few people will pick up this fly box and pronounce it "too heavy". Our natural tendency is to expect a small object to be light. These folks are probably thinking of the fatigue they would experience in having to cast the box to catch fish. We’d like to point out to those individuals, that the box should be placed in one’s shirt pocket or vest while fishing. Seriously, you’ll never notice the presence of one or two of our boxes in your shirt pocket or three or four in your fishing vest. They are so slim that you’ll have plenty of room for all the other stuff that you’ll put in there. And you’ll have the peace of mind of knowing that you’re carrying 100 to 300 flies per box -- easily all the flies that you might want to take on a day’s outing.

It’s probably not a new experience for anyone who has fly fished a while, to have their floating fly box, with a couple hundred $ of flies, do it’s own trip down a fast flowing river – forever gone into some other fly fishers vest. Conversely, float-tubers are grateful that those same boxes rest gently on top of the water. Our fly box sinks. If you’re wading a river, its easy to scoop it up from the bottom using your net. If you’re in a float tube, or a precarious place over deep water, you can be careful, or use the lanyard which we supply and attach it to a shirt button or vest, or be prepared to go diving.

Most hooks will rust if they are left in contact with water over a prolonged time. If wet hooks rest on a white surface, it’s easy to see even a small amount of rust. If the wet hook is in contact with uncoated magnetic material, the rusting process is accelerated. To reduce this effect, we use flexible magnet material with a vinyl coating. Wet flies in our box have no more tendency to rust than flies in foam fly boxes under the same conditions. Which brings us to our last notable feature: How to prevent even a small amount of rusting…

If your box gets dunked, just pour out the water – your flies will stay put. If you’re driving home at the end of the day, Invert the open box over the defrost vent of your car (there’s method behind our madness in designing a lid which only opens to a right angle) and they’ll dry in minutes. Alternatively, at home, remove the magnetic pad with flies attached (there’s a place where you can insert a knife point to do this) and, holding it in the palm of your hand, use a hair blow-drier to do the job. Incidentally, hand-holding will insure that you won’t cook the flies, or the fly box!