Fishing gear for a PSK?

[Stormstaff]

What test line is the average? How much of said line? What size hooks?

Thanks in advance!!

 

[SouthernCross]

I carry 8lb mono (if you prefer braid, then you can carry much stronger breaking strains with thinner diameter). I carry 2 bobbins full (about 20 meters each).

Obviously hook size is going to depend on the type and size of the fish you are likely to encounter.

Personally I carry half a dozen trout sized hooks and a dozen real small hooks.

A few removal split shot and a couple of artifical flies are worth adding.

If you have species that will take bait from a float, add a thin slice of cork from a wine/champagne bottle (washed first ). The cork also lets me secure the hooks in one place and still be easy to access the different sizes I carry.


Hope this helps.


Kind regards
Mick

 

[Fiddleback]

Get 20 lb Spiderwire. Its slimmer than 8lb mono, and more useful. You can use it for thread, etc. I use small to medium hooks. You're fishing to survive, not for sport. A few weights too. This small tidbit of gear is all you need.

 

[troutfisher13111]

Get 20 lb Spiderwire. Its slimmer than 8lb mono, and more useful. You can use it for thread, etc. I use small to medium hooks. You're fishing to survive, not for sport. A few weights too. This small tidbit of gear is all you need.

I second this. The 20lb spiderwire is 6lb diameter. Its good stuff.

For hooks, I would use #8 circle hooks. The size is good for small fish on up to pretty large fish, and the circle pattern is good for a survival situatiuon due to the fact you can walk away and the fish should hook themselves.

Other than that, I would add a few large split shot and you should be all set. If you think live bait might be scarce, add a few small black jigs. They are very versatile, and are proven fish catchers.

 

[screwthe49ers]

I honestly pack whatever I happen to have, which can range from 8-20lb monofilament. About 20 or so splitshot, a half dozen flies, and 3 or 4 rubber worms. Don't know how well it would work in a survival situation, but I did catch a catfish on the Holston River in Knoxville using a tree branch as a rod to cast.

 

[JK Knives]

Another good lure to keep in a kit is a 1/8 oz. beetle spin, I`ve always had good luck with them.

 

[HornyToad]

Don't forget a foam bobber. Small and very light.

 

[Bushman5]

consider going 100lb BRAIDED line, its about the same diameter as 10lb mono and does not kin or get memory after being rolled up for years. Reason i say this weight of line is in a survival situation one can "gig" or snag the fish with a heavy line and treble hook, and increase their chance of retaining the fish. The 100lb braid is still THIN, but brutally strong and not likely to break.

a standard emergency fishing "snag" set up is a short stick with the line looped around several times in the center of the stick, then tied off . Attach a BARBED (remember in a survival situ the regs can go to hell) treble hook and bait it with bright red berries or ripped cloth. Jig up and down slowly and wait until he fish mouths it. yank firmly and hard and up onto the bank and dispatch it.

something an old CDN bush pilot taught me.

 

[Cpl Punishment]

Hooks? Lines? WTF?

 

[Rick Marchand]

I use 50lb spiderwire, wet/dry flies, a few hooks and some splitshot. Spiderwire is awesome stuff... you can use it for snares, sewing and campcraft. Just don't use it for lanyards (around neck, wrists, etc..) because it'll cut you before in gives way (if it breaks at all!)

 

[tonym]

I second this. The 20lb spiderwire is 6lb diameter. Its good stuff.

For hooks, I would use #8 circle hooks. The size is good for small fish on up to pretty large fish, and the circle pattern is good for a survival situatiuon due to the fact you can walk away and the fish should hook themselves.

Other than that, I would add a few large split shot and you should be all set. If you think live bait might be scarce, add a few small black jigs. They are very versatile, and are proven fish catchers.

:thumbup:

I like to carry about 6' feet of 10lb flouracarbon as leader material as well. I bump up the 20lb spider wire to 30lb as well.

Some small inline spinners will work for trout, panfish, and bass.

 

[fishiker]

If I need to fish for survival in the mountains in this area the most likely option would be native trout. They can be spooky so in addition to 20# spider wire, #8 hooks, jigs, sinkers and flies I carry 4# clear mono and #12 & #14 hooks. The light line isn't for the sport; it's the best way to catch a fish in the clear water. If I lived in a different area or was hiking somewhere different I would look at adapting the kit to that area.

 

[J. Doyle]

I carry both braided and mono. For the mono I use a new spool of fly fishing tippet material. About 8 lb test. The tippet spools are very thin and take up little space and you get around 30 yds of line.

+1 on the dry/wet flies. In a pinch, live bait can be more difficult to find than it would seem. I still carry plain hooks in addition to the flies.