Small tools and supplies fly fishers use on every trip, and a few for tying flies. Based on what anglers say on forums and Reddit, tests and years of use.
Prices from shops in Czechia.
Leave rods, reels and lines to them: fly fishers match those to each other and to the water they fish. Everything here goes with whatever they already use.
Nippers, the small cutters for line, and forceps, the clamps for taking out hooks, go missing on the river, so even someone who has them is glad of another.
Every knot ends with a snip. These cut fine line clean and close, sit comfortably in the hand and have a pin for clearing varnish from a hook’s eye.
CZK 199 wilkinsonflyfishing.com
One tool takes out a hook, flattens its barb and trims line. It opens and closes with the same squeeze, so it works with cold fingers or in gloves.
€29.90 ≈ CZK 728 shop.goflyfish.cz
Clipped to a vest or pack, it holds the rod firmly, so both hands are free to change a fly or release a fish instead of laying the rod in the mud.
€39.90 ≈ CZK 972 shop.goflyfish.cz
Fly fishers carry several spools of tippet, the fine line tied on before the fly. This holds up to five on a solid aluminium bar, with no plastic clips to snap.
CZK 1,248 lamafly.euThe gel and the powder are a pair for dry flies, the ones that float: the gel goes on before casting, the powder dries a fly after a fish.
A dab keeps a dry fly floating high on the water. Unlike many gels it doesn’t mat CDC, the soft duck feather used in a lot of dry flies.
€11.90 ≈ CZK 290 shop.goflyfish.cz
After a fish, the soaked fly goes into the bottle still tied on. A few shakes dry it and coat it in powder, and it floats again without tying on a new one.
€11.90 ≈ CZK 290 shop.goflyfish.cz
Flies sit firmly in rows of silicone, which doesn’t tear the way foam does. The box is just over a centimetre thick and made for nymphs, the flies fished under the surface.
CZK 498 tommi-fly.cz
A clean, treated fly line slides through the rod’s rings, casts farther and lasts longer. The kit has a cleaner and a sheepskin-lined block to pull the line through.
CZK 428 azfishing.czFor someone who ties their own flies. The tool kit suits anyone who does. The vise, which holds the hook during tying, is the bigger present, for someone still using a basic one.
The five tools used on nearly every fly, from scissors to pliers for holding feathers, in a hard case. The thick handles are easy to hold even with stiff or sore fingers.
CZK 1,611 azfishing.cz
A rotary vise holds the hook and turns it, so materials wind on evenly. The Kaiman grips hooks from tiny to very large without adjusting, and stands on its own base.
€169.99 ≈ CZK 4,140 taimen.comEverything you want in one place. We show you where each is cheapest and tell you when the price drops.
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