Homemade Bugger Beast Box
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After reading Rick Marcum’s recent post about homemade large capacity fly boxes my creative wheels started turning. I like the Cliff’s Bugger Beast large fly boxes for holding my saltwater flies. I have the Beast Junior box and it works very well for crab patterns and bonefish flies but I really want/need the large Beast for Tarpon flies but have other financial priorities at this time. So here’s what I did . . . this box is very easy to make and requires little effort and no special tools.
Go to Walmart and in the bead section you can get these cheap plastic carrying boxes for $7 and inside there are like 40 smaller plastic boxes that work great for storing extra tying material. Buy two sheets of closed cell foam at the hobby store, $1 each. Get a razor blade, I use a surgical scalpel. Some superglue, I used Zap-a-Gap. That’s it.
Picture of my Cliff’s Beast top left, the cheap plastic box bottom, foam and supplies top right.
Glue two sheets of foam together; this is crucial because it gives you depth which is needed later. Cut the two-glued foam sheets to fit the box. Then Make a straight line vertical cut every 1/4 or 1/2 inch depending on how many and what type of flies you are going to put in the box. Make sure to leave about 1/2 inch of uncut foam at the top and bottom.
Glue the foam into the box. That’s it.
My new Osbo Beast Tarpon box, retail cost about $10. 100% homemade including the flies that I tied myself. Now I need to make two more to hold my other flies. This box would also work great for holding wooly buggers and streamers. I still think that Cliff’s Beast Boxes are the best out there but for now these homemade boxes will work.
So I finally put together the pieces of the puzzle . . . I was in the lab yesterday and found this plastic box that stored an old medical device we never use, turns out it is essentially the same plastic container/box as a Cliff’s Bugger Beast. I took it home and tore out the foam casing an shelled the box. I found a webpage and product number that lead me to this site http://www.gardplasticases.com/t2004case.html. I have not been able to find how to buy the Gard plastic cases but I emailed the company and will let you all know if they are available and how much they cost.
Here are pics of my now official homemade Bugger Beast. I used cell foam from a standing comfort mat for the base. This box will nicely hold many articulated flies and big hairy streamers. Note: for just about $30 you can skip all this geeky homemade stuff and just buy a Cliff’s Bugger Beast, but I like the challenge of making things myself.
Yeh I wondered the same thing about waterproofing, but after banging around my two Beasts in clackacraft drift boats and my supreme, Im yet to get a drop of water in it.
Simple reason really I rarely end up with a couple of inches
Here is a website that sells cases of all sorts
http://www.mtmcase-gard.com/products/handgun/hand.html model# 809-40 +/-$10.00
These are sturdy cases that I use for handgun transport. The snap closures on some less expensive cases tend to wear out prematurely.MS
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