I had one last year, but there were too many pockets and it drove me crazy! I carry a very light arsenal for steelhead during the summer, so I take a very small (smaller than a lot of women's purses) bag with jigs, floats, a few spinners, and splitshot. That's it, and pliers I suppose. Winter fishing is a whole 'nother story, in which case I could live out of the backpack I carry with me, and a fishing vest would just wind up in the bottom of the backpack because there's just too much crap to carry in a vest lol.