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Looking for a Sign to Organize Your Tying Desk? Here it is.

Tying Desk

Looking for a Sign to Organize Your Tying Desk? Here it is.

Fly tying benches, rooms and travel tying kits can be an absolute thing of beauty, or a complete tornado of hair, hooks and feathers that look like a crime scene at a zoo. I have always been slightly jealous of the former that are well organized- having material alphabetized Dewey decimal system style like the library. I know it is my fault for just cramming, shoving and stuffing things away while tying in a flurry like the Swedish Chef from the old Muppets Show. I could fix that, and I have to imagine more organization means more efficiency. Novel idea. For those that are organized, that is awesome, and I hope to follow your lead. For those whose tying stations look and sound more like mine, here are some ideas to help: 
Travel Bags:

For those on the go, or if you do not have a dedicated bench or tying room, these are fantastic. Also, if you tie more specific patterns and not a whooping variety of material, they work great. These were and are my go-to from when I was the classic “dirt bag” fishing guide spending most of the year moving from watershed to watershed living out of the truck. I even threw it in the boat on multi-day trips to tie at lunch to re-stock boxes. They are handy and can hold way more material than they look like and have well thought out specific pockets for dubbing, tools, and tubes for spools of wire and thread.  

Hareline Foamanizer and Pop Top Stashs: 

The Foamanizer options are a module system that you can build out and are very affordable. They can hold hooks, beads, tools, fly drying / display and they interchange and can store the pop top stash bottles. They keep hooks, beads and eyes at the ready and organized. You can stack and make levels with acrylic rods and spacers. The stash boxes are handy to be the “mother ship” for hooks, beads and other small materials that are easy to lose in their original packaging. It is also a great way to take inventory of what you have and low on. Nothing worse than getting to the fly shop guessing which size beads you are out and getting home and you bought the one size you are flush on. Check them out and you can see how adaptable this system can be. 

Storage Pots and Dubbing Boxes:

Flash storage pots corral those pesky zip tied Flash-a-bou and Krystal Flash type products that end up everywhere. Simple, but overlooked items to add to the kit. Dubbing boxes keep everything organized and assessable. These clear boxes also help better inventory your dubbing so you are not double buying. 

Cliff Top Shelf: 

Simple add on to the vise like this magnetic shelf for hooks with hook and hackle gage make tying easier. Cliff is also a local Casper brand, so that is cool to represent the 307.

Mike’s Recommendation: 
Tool Bars: 

These are a great base for adding tool bars to keep all the bobbins, scissors, dubbing brushes, whip finishers and other do-dads all in one place. It is the Bat Utility Belt of your bench.

Mike’s Recommendation: 

 

These are just a few ideas, there are lots of other options if this inspired you to get that tying station dialed in and the bugs cranking out!
-MB

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