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I pretie tippets to all of my small flies 16 up to 22. I set up my magnifying glass with the light, either my Renzenti or a bigger vise. I tie on 18 inches of tippet to each fly, usually a Duncan's loop. I will tie the tippets to at least a dozen flies up to 3 dozen during one session.

Now for the best secret that I have re fly fishing. I then put each tippet tied fly into a PIP's Box, stick the tip of the hook into the cork pad of the box, and then close and rotate the clear plastic box cover until all of the tippet is spooled up on the enclosed reel in the PIP's box. I can put 20 to 30 small flies and their tippets into a single Pip's box. They are water proof and wind proof. The cork keeps the Pip's box floating if dropped in the water. When you want a fly, you just use your pliers and grab the fly by the bare hook and pull it and the tippet out of the Pip's box. The other flies and their tippets just stay in the box until you take them out.

Then I cut off 24 inches of a leader's tippet end if I'm using dries or emergers and put a perfection hard loop in the new end. Then I just remove the pre tippeted flies and clinch knot them to the perfection loop.

A week ago, in 3 hours I tied on 30 flies and removed 29 of them in 3 hours trying to get the two feet trout on Putah Creek to strike. Finally had one strike a fly and break it off after a couple of minutes. He was about 6 to 8 pounds. Too much weight for the light two pound tippets.

Re the little LL flashlight, I have been carrying it around all day doing things with it instead of a big two or 3 cell metal flashlight. I forgot that it was in one of my fishing shirts and it got washed and dried and still works. The control button has 3 modes. One goes off when you release the button. One flashes a flash per second. The last mode leaves the light on until you push the button to turn it off.