Greetings Everyone,
New Member - first queery -
I'm too frugal to buy a fly box for reservoir flies/lures so have made a couple of wooden ones, the problem that I have is locating suitable foam to put inside them.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I can obtain some suitable foam for this job, or does anyone have a suggestion for an alternative method of securing said flies/lures, eg magnetic strips?
( Hope this works, I'm fairly new to fishing, and really new to computers.

Welcome to the Forum,Most fly tackle shops sell sheets of foam.

Jim

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The Fishermans Friend is the Flirty Fly,Fickle Food for Fleeting Fish.

Try steve parton of aparton tackle, he sells big sticky backed sheets with peel off backing, that should do the trick

I have some in the lid of my boat box

Andy

Here's how I did it as a complete DIY'er,(and as a cheapo meself )

http://www.seatroutforum.com/showthread.php?t=800

................. Avalon/ Andrew/Pop

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I didn't have to travel to Concord to find my "Walden" ...it's right here on da' Avalon

It's SPARTON Tackle

Jim

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The Fishermans Friend is the Flirty Fly,Fickle Food for Fleeting Fish.

Thanks Jim, were you a teacher in a previous life? .... Typo due to me trying to answer posts on my blackberry to kill the boredom of a dull conference!!

Andy

Try Focus or B&Q etc.
The stuff they use for laminate floor underlay
Stick it on with contact glue or double sided tape.
Works great, and cheao as well
Ken

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The foam to specify is called "etherfoam". It's white, dense and dirt cheap. It also makes good booby eyes.

If you can't get that, try ETHAFOAM...

If your local tackle dealers doesn't sell it try eBay. Best to use ethafoam as it tends to keep the water away from the hook and the flies don't go rusty. Some of the other foams don't work like this and the flies rust quickly