Comprehensive Pocket Sized Fishing Kit

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k_estela

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Last year at PWYP, I held a PSK fishing clinic. A lot of great ideas were spread around and ideas for kits shared. At that time, I had a couple kits built up for the sole purpose of fishing. With the opening day of fising season next month, I thought I should dig out one of those kits and post it here.

This is my mini-fishing kit.

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Relative size

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Can you guess the contents?

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With this kit, I have all my freshwater needs accomodated for. While fishing and food gathering is low on my list of priorities in constructing an emergency kit, I like to carry ample equipment to procure food and have a variety of means to catch fish.

If anyone has any questions, I'll gladly answer them. For the size and weight of this kit, there is no reason not to include one in your 10 essentials.
 
What would you use the needles for? Or the floating jig heads? Or the clear plastic tube? I like the octopuss style hooks. They are real good with pole lines.
 
I think you have a good little kit in there. You have the extremely large hooks which are good for snagging (illegal unless you are survival fishing and you will probably get a ticket then as well :rolleyes: ). Treble hooks can be used for the same thing. Tiny hooks are probably the best type, for obvious reasons.

Eye screws, great for tying off stand-alone lines that fish while you do something else, as good as trapping.

I keep a couple of the very small hose clamps in a fishing kit for securing the large hooks to poles, etc. A few flies take up absolutely no space and they can be used to catch fish as well as frogs, same thing with tiny ant, grasshopper and cricket lures that are on very small hooks. I have had excellent results with all of that stuff too.
 
Needles are used instead of thorns for improvised split branch fish spears. The jigs are not floating but micro ice fishing jigs. The clear plastic tube is not plastic tube but a small section of a hot glue gun glue stick. I've used it for creating makeshift lures out of the carried hooks and materials found on the spot.
 
Don,

You're right about the flies. I carry them in my larger fishing kit I take on extended trips in the Adirondacks and around water. My favorite flies to carry in that kit include the Adams, Mosquito and the terrestrials you mentioned like the ant and cricket. A good ole' wooly bugger is a great fly to carry too.
 
Yeah, those little "flies" are about the most productive fishing equipment to place in minimalist kits I can think of.
 
Some 1.5" tubes in perch color (orange/chartreuse) work well for a variety of species. I've used 'em for everything from Small mouth and pan fish to Trout. I usually keep a few in my small "pocket" kit when traveling light on the water.
Use 'em with the jigs you have or on one of the barbed bait holder hooks with a slip shot.
 
I like the idea of those eye-screws...here's what I have for my minimalist kit (fits in a Nalgene plastic accessory bottle, slightly larger than a film cannister):

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The spoons were a suggestion and work quite well.

ROCK6
 
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