Necessary bait and tackle for a BOB fishing kit.

[outdoorsfan]

Can you put up a pick of the dry fly you use?

TF

For the Gathering kits, I picked up a pack of cheap-o assorted flies (from Southbend) but you could use anything you like/have.

I took some pics of my larger kit, just need to download and I will post it later today.

Dry flies would be all right if he has a fly rod in his BOB.

I've actually used a dry fly on a spinning rod, using the rod like a cane pole to drop the fly on the surface from shore. I don't do it very often but have caught fish that way (a 4#ish Largemouth being the biggest).

 

[outdoorsfan]

Here's my larger kit, it still has room for plenty of additions...

With the tubes out

and the contents of the jig tube

I can swap things in and out as the conditions require but this is the core stuff.

 

[5knives]

In the 50+ years I have been bumming around in the woods, I have yet to make use of any fishing tackle.

Based on that, I'd say it is not needed, but then other's opinions will vary.

Agreed ...

Based on a lot of WI and a fair sampling of CO. and other places, most of which had fish if they had water ... same here.

But if I needed fish in a survival scenario, I sure wouldn't engage in anything even remotely resembling sport fishing, traps, spears, plant poison or best of all a spare hand grenade would do the trick. Well ... so would a half pound of carbide and it'd be quieter.

If I was fresh out of hand grenades, I'd carry some heavy line (which I do anyhow, but not for fishing) add some shot and some hooks and think trotline.

I just can't imagine starving while I tried to catch a fish on one line with one hook. As far as bait or lures go, I learned as a kid it's easier to feed 'em than fool 'em, bugs, worms, grubs whatever you find on site.

But, survival wise, you're probably further ahead eating the grubs instead of using them for fish bait, same with the worms and bugs.

The BOB implies, to me, the need for travel, either to get someplace fast or just to get away from where you're at, also fast. Given those imperatives anything resembling sport fishing seems contra-productive. Different story of course if traveling by water.

As always, JMHO, YMMV and that's fine too!

Regards,
...

 

[fishiker]

I live in SW Virginia so the most likely fish to be a food source in a survival situation would be native trout. Key components of my kit are small hooks and sinkers( size #14 and B) along with several feet of 4lb. clear monofilament. I also have two types of lures; black wooly-buggers and a few trout magnets. I have complete confidence in both lures and know that the light line and tackle does make a difference to the number of fish I would catch.

 

[dipbait]

I just can't imagine starving while I tried to catch a fish on one line with one hook. As far as bait or lures go, I learned as a kid it's easier to feed 'em than fool 'em, bugs, worms, grubs whatever you find on site.


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When I was a kid ,Im talking 12 years old, I use to ride my bike to the mighty Mississippi river with nothing more than a cheap fishing pole and a few jigs. I didnt cast the lures , just walked around the banks working the jig , and caught lots of fish. Bluegill, crappie, Largemouth, walleye , and white bass. It is not rare to catch fish that way.

 

[Guyon]

I think it was Field and Stream where I read that the humble bucktail jig is the piece of fishing kit given to Navy Seals. Can anyone confirm? It is an exceptional, time-tested lure and a very universal one.

 

[dipbait]

Heres me as a lad, ande some fish I caught on a cane pole and some worms.No rod and reel, just a long stick.I remember the fishing pole breaking on one of the bass.

Mark Twain caught fish this way in the 1800s and wrote about it . Nothing has changed. Fish are still fish. I fished the exact same waters as Mark Twain , we share the same home town.

 

[dipbait]

I think it was Field and Stream where I read that the humble bucktail jig is the piece of fishing kit given to Navy Seals. Can anyone confirm? It is an exceptional, time-tested lure and a very universal one.

Bucktail jigs would be an excellent choice, not as much action as marabou but more durable.

 

[5knives]

Just to clarify ...

Didn't say I don't fish or didn't know how. Been fishing for something like 65 years now, always lived on or near water, Great Lakes, inland rivers and streams, even here in CO, canal 30 feet from my home has fish in the summer, and the Colorado is only a tad over a mile awy.

Simply meant to say that In a pressurized survival situation I couldn't see anything like sport or 'legal' fishing as being productive. Long term wilderness living would be a totally different story of course.

Sorry I wasn't more clear, but I'm moderately old and sometimes muddled in my communication.

As always, JMHO,YMMV.

Regards,

 

[stealthchaser13]

With the tubes out

where did you get those little tubes?

 

[outdoorsfan]

where did you get those little tubes?

There was a bag of about a dozen of them in the drawer of an old drafting table we bought at an Estate Sale. The original owner was a Structural Engineer and there are two spots smoothed on the wooden crossbrace where he rested his feet and drew. There was a lot of cool stuff in there.

 

[dartanyon]

I think back to the basics and what you would want if you had nothing at all. Line and hooks. Some small hooks and fine line for small fish (size 10 hooks and 2 lb line), some large hooks and heavy line for big fish (3/0 hooks and 20 lb line).
I'm thinking we can use fishing tackle to catch birds too.

 

[stealthchaser13]

There was a bag of about a dozen of them in the drawer of an old drafting table we bought at an Estate Sale. The original owner was a Structural Engineer and there are two spots smoothed on the wooden crossbrace where he rested his feet and drew. There was a lot of cool stuff in there.

oh, dang....