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So what kind of fishing gear do you have in your survival kit(s)?



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Hoodoo

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small fish hooks, swivels, sinkers, and a little line. It sits right next to my small roll of snare wire and parachute cord.
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For freshwater, mine is similar to Greg Davenport's. I use some some fine nylon paracord line, with a 10 lbs double strenth monofilament leader as if trout fishing. I include some dry and weighted trout flies as well as normal hooks. I can then fish fly, ledgering, float or spin (with swivels).
Better catch lots of little fish than one big one.
If you are going to leave a night line then have plenty of baited hooks out at different depths. Worm and maggots work well.

Change the monofiament once a year as it goes brittle over time.

I would be interested on people's views on a sea fishing setup.
 
I have in my survival kit a small fishing kit which includes the following:
-small swivels
-small Tru-Turn hooks
-several different sizes and types of sinkers
-small silver Daredevel spoon
-several different types of flies
-8 pound test fishing line wrapped around half a tongue depressor with a swivel pre-attached

I also have a similar kit stashed in the pouch of my U2. The little silver spoon has been a consistent producer when fishing, and they work great on bluegills and bass. I can't remember not catching at least a few bluegills whenever I have used them.

Later, Jeff B

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Oops, forgot another lil helpfull hint. I keep a roll of waxed dental floss in my kits that could be used as a main line to attatch the monfilament to.

Later, Jeff B
 
The problem with most survival fishing tackle . Such as found in most life raft SOLAS packages, and even the naval aviator survival kits is that they don't come with anything for handling the larger than expected fish. I refer to dorado, blue-fish, striper,small shark or tuna even barracuda. Even a small steel leader, and larger hooks would be a big help. Remember when your in a raft you dont get to pick your fishin hole. This is as much about keeping your equipment as catching fish.
 
I have to admit that I hardly have any experience in fishing and even that little is from my younger years. Still, I have few meters of 10 lb-rated monofilament, small hooks and lead weight in my kit. Just in case...
One thought to mention, however, is the usefulness of a small gill net. Easy to set up in small streams as fish trap to harvest fish. Another thing -that I actually successfully used- is stretching the net on a rectangular frame, hang it from a pole with cords attached to the corners of the frame, weight it down, bait it in the middle and submerge in the water. It worked well and QUICKLY for minnow from the bank of a wide river with strong current. Not a water that you want to set fish traps in. BTW the bait was bread rolled into a small (3 cm) ball. In twenty minutes, a dozen or more small fishes were caught, scaled, gutted and roasted...yam-yam
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HM
 
30 or so feet of 12lb test
a dozen or so #10 mustad hooks
half a dozen egg-type sinkers

It produces trout where I didn't think they'd be (a great lesson for me!)

I should augment it with thicker lines, flies and small spoon.

Mike

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Hi,

I picked up several of those US survival fishing kits everything stores in an Aluminium box. The ones I have are made in 1993 and I put in some extra hooks and some flies etc.
I also have several military version Speedhooks and these babies are really something. The only "negative" thing is that they come with only 1 hook and leader but I stored some extra's in the aluminium kit.

Cheers,

Bagheera

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in mine i have a 18' bass boat with motor, all my rods and reels.including my fly fishing stuff.A large ice chest stocked with drinks and sandwiches and bait.uhh,i also have my knife collection w/one of those lanskey (i think thats the name)sharpening kits. oh yeah,my shot guns and bird dogs go along too,evebn though it is a fishing kit.
all this folds into a package the size of a small can.

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My smallest fishing survival kit....
1 10 ft fishing rod with all equipment.
1 9 ft fly fishing rod with all equipment.
Fishing vest,waders,spare reels,fishing net, etc, etc.
I've been hiking in the mouintains for three weeks now. Came home the 21st of august.
It will be a little while before I eat fish again.
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Roll of 20 lb test line, two packs of hooks.

Most of the time when I'm out in the woods, I have sport-fishing equipment with me. I try to stay away from extremely large bodies of water, so I don't worry about ocean-type survival fishing eqp. I also place food very low on my list of survival priorities. In the span of time I am likely to starve, there are many greater things I will have to survive.


Stryver
 
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