Help with organising my fly box please

[FemaleDuck]

I only fish the river Usk, so that simplifies it. I am new to fly fishing, and only have 36 flies, so having identified my flies, I now wish to organise them.

I tried to do it with the Fulling Mill online catalogue, but too fiddly to use, is there another catalogue to do it from?
Or any other suggestions? Can someone help me group them? i.e Dry, Emerger, nymph,Wet, etc.... My flies are

1.Parachute Olive Hares Ear
2. Olive Klinkhammer
3. Olive Shuttlecock
4. Olive Elk Hair Caddis
5.Large Dark Olive
6.Gold ribbed Hares Ear
7.Black Gnat
8.Iron blue dun
9. Grannom
10.Cinnomon Sedge
11. Mayfly
12. Tups indispensible
13 Lake olive
14.March brown
15. Olive dun
16. Black + peacock spider
17.Shrimp
18 Olive nymph
19. March brown wet
20.Gold ribbed hares ear
21 Pheasant tail blue
22 March brown
23 Wickhams Fancy
24. Olive gold ribbed hares ear gold bead
25. Pheasant tail nymph gold bead
26. Copper pheasant tail nymph
27. Gold ribbed hares ear
28.Grey duster
29. CDC Hares ear
30. CDC Olive spinner
31. Black CDC
32. Emerging mayfly nymph
33. French Partridge Mayfly
34. Gosling Mayfly
35. Grey Wulff Mayfly
36. Spent gnat mayfly

[johnboyj]

personally i would organise them crudely ( drys , wets , lures etc) and then you will naturally sub-section them. i dont think the fish will mind though but know how exactly what its like to organise your tackle!!!!!!

[johnboyj]

c'mon guys help the lady with her 'box'

[Catfish Virgin (Still!)]

OK, having returned to fly fishing after a 20+ years, I have two fly boxes ( and I seem to be buying/tying more and more). I'm already resigned to the fact that the majority of the flys have not and never will get wet, but Box 1 is all the fluffy marabou type things (mostly small lures and stuff). Box 2 is all the buzzers and nymphs.

I might know some of the names (and will have detailed discussions with anyone on the finer arts of such things) but my rule of thumb is - "has it caught a trout?". If yes, I will remember that and use it again and again.

Trouble is, I've now got quite a range of "working" flys so my library of "confident patterns" is expanding quite well!

My tip - don't get too hung up on what they're called, if it catches, then use it again. If not, swap and change!

"Only fish the Usk" - very jealous!

By the way, I'm the same with floats, got loads of them, 90% have never got wet either!

Tight lines.

[Dan77]

I always like to travel light when I go fly fishing which means small fly boxes in fishing vest. I carry three smallish boxes

1. Dries
2. Buzzers/Nymphs
3. Lures

inside each I generally group them in colour only.

You have 36 flies there but trust me they will add up over the years. And you will need a box for each type (unless you get one huge box). For now I recommend organizing them first in type, then sub-groups of colour.

Happy fishing :)

PS You commute from Vietnam to Wales? wow