Bass/Pike fly box 1

Gather 'round kids, 'cause uncle Mark is about to show you how to be ready for when the big one is lurkin' just beyond that patch of grass, that one over there, near the sunken log. He's got a big ol' scar down his side from where sumthin' tried ta eat 'im, but he was just too tough.

Today that big boy is just starin' at you and darin' you to toss anything his way, anything at all. Not only do you have to get through the weeds but you've gotta get 'round the wood, then you've gotta offer him a meal worth comin' outta that nice, shady, comfy ambush spot from where he just opens up and snaps down any creature not big enough to eat him first, which means almost everything in the water around him is fair game.

He's gonna laugh at your little nymphs and dry flies. Your precious 4 weight fly rod will become his toothpick. You need not only to bring a rod with enough backbone to haul a brick up the side of a building, but flies that old boy sees as temptin' as you see that 18 oz sirloin gettin' char marks over maple wood charcoal in your grill right now.

These are those flies, all tied by me except where noted.
Left side, left to right from top to bottom:

• 2 divers I made using half a foam cutout designed for floating Clousers with white hackle and red Krystal Flash attached to 2/0 bass stinger hooks
• 10 rabbit hair Pike flies of various color combinations on 2/0 saltwater hooks
• 4 Morrish Mice made with hackle instead of deer hair because like so many, I can't leave well enough alone, tied on size 6 streamer hooks
• 2 large leech flies sent to me by my friend Ray (letumgo) from Fly Tying Forum.

Right side, left to right from top to bottom:

• 2 rows of Calcasieu Pig Boats, in colors for whatever occasion, tied on 1/0 and 2/0 Bass stinger hooks, and yes altered from the original (Mine's pretty much Wooly Buggers with extra long hackle and rubber legs)
  
• 2 sliders of this pattern (4th picture down) which I bought at International Angler
• 4 Burblers that are inserted in the box tail to tail for space and on size 8 bass stinger hooks
• 2 Hot Clown pattern Dahlberg Divers on size 2 streamer hooks
• 2 generic mice on 1/0 bass stinger hooks

You don't stuff a box with flies like this and expect it to close easy...even a Bugger Barn. It sits open like this 'til I force it shut, which I don't do less I'm carryin' it in my vest. Don't wanna squash all the goods.
That'd be like smashin' the juice out of a hamburger to make it cook faster. What?

You do what?

*sigh* I have a lot to teach you.