Tackle Talk

The Fierce is a quality budget reel, no doubt. For my money, the best $100 reel out there is the Daiwa BG. They run real big, so a 2000/2500 would be plenty for your 9yo. Good luck Always nice to see the young ones get interested in the outdoors.

 

That happened to me w/ my baitrunner last year and I sent it to Shimano. $25 bucks and it feels like a brand new reel.

 

I've got both. Both are great but I am really partial to Daiwa for the action and smoothness of them. It may just be me though.

 

Finally found my unicorn tackle boxes! plano pro latch 3600 slim! Normally I could only find them on Amazon for between $15-$20 each! Hell no...
I did find 6 of them at the local fleetfarm for $4 each (along with some ice rescue picks). I converted 2 normal 3600 bins into 3 slim 3600 bins. Added a whole extra bin worth of space... but now I wish I would of gotten all 6 instead of just 4 of them. But, 2 of my 3600s were just hard baits, now those 2 bins are slim and take up the same space as a single normal 3600.

 

Link? I hate my boxes.

 

https://www.planomolding.com/prolatch-stowaway-thin-3600
https://www.fleetfarm.com/detail/plano-3600-series-thin-prolatch-stowaway-utility-box/0000000011003

 

I couldnt find them on fleetfarms site, but here they are tacklewarehouse
https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Plano_Pro_Latch_Utility_Box_3601/descpage-P3601.html

 

Looking around, I really really want to get one of these to go in my backpack.
https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Plano_3600_Worm_Stowaway/descpage-PWS.html

8 bags of worms, some terminal tackle, and a spot for grubs too.

 

Thanks. My kayak seat is stupid. I can’t slide a regular box underneath. This should work.

 

Never even thought of that! My kayak is the same, I cant fit a normal 3600 under the seat, but I bet these would go right under there.

 

So I have reorganized my boxes and switched from a standard tackle bag to a sling style one. It holds a little less stuff, but its much easier to carry through the woods. I put a bunch my soft plastics (in their bags) into a 3700, I only put in the ones that I use at the lake I am heading to this week. Then I put all my skirted jigs, some bass tackle, and misc terminal into a thin 3600. I then loaded a slim 3600 with some good hard baits for the lake, and finally I put soft plastic swim baits into another slim 3600. Im targeting bass with this trip, but the trout are biting on the same things the bass are, so I'll probably end up with a few of them too.

It all fits nice into the sling bag and is perfect for me to take to the lake and walk through some of the thicker woods. Now I just need to decide what and how many rods to bring with. Thinking my new pistol grip bait caster, and my standard 6'6 medium spinning rod. I also need to make sure all my flashlights are charged and ready to go, it gets dark around 5pm here, Im off work around 3:30ish, so figure I will have about a hour of light to fish in before I switch over to the glow in the dark baits.

 

i used a beat down Camelback pack. its the right way to bank fish.

 

Yeah, the more I get back into fishing, the more I realize that I carry way too much tackle with me 90% of the time.

 

Picked this up today.

 

What is it. ?

 

Sorry its a Diawa regal 1000d

 

Nice. I’m not versed in spinning stuff. Yet. Soon

 

Yeah I’m pretty much a beginner. Fished here and there but my kid started getting into it so I figure it would be fun to do together.

 

nice!! lucky dad!!

 

Was supposed to go look at kayaks today with a bud but he was too busy so we’ll try again tomorrow. Then this happened.