My grandfather’s 90th birthday was this past weekend. As a gift, some of my family helped clean his house. My mom called me and said she had found an old tackle box, and they were going to throw it away. I told her that I wouldn’t mind taking a look at it.

Well, a couple days later my mom gave me the tackle box. I cracked it open and there were three sinkers, a pack of huge hooks, and fly box.

I couldn’t believe it. I figured there would be some old spinners maybe, but not a fly box. My family grew up in East Jordan, MI and my great-grandmother’s house was on a trout creek. So, I guess it makes sense that my grandpa had some flies.

Here is a pic of the box:
flybox_Front

Inside the box, there is a few wet flies and a few poppers:
flybox_inside

There is a small logo on the inside:
Flybox_logo

I did a quick Google search and it didn’t turn up anything on the SFT company, but it did turn up a Ebay listing with a similar fly box – and it was going for 99 cents. It may not be worth a lot, but it has a lot of character and I’m glad to keep it in the family.