SO I was walking around in Dick's Sporting Goods and I spy this cool looking tackle pack thing. I pick it up and it's a chest rig. Look at it more and I am like wow this is cool. I walk the banks and fish and I canoe and kayak fish and I could really see how this would work well. Especially since I lost about $300 worth of lures and gear last year when the canoe tipped and my tackle bag sank out of sight. Wouldn't have happened if my gear was strapped to my chest.
I am a big man 6' - 300lbs and this fits me easily so smaller folks could even wear it over a life preserver (vest kayaking kind not the big old orange ones)
I have a big plastic tackle box and a couple of tackle bagsthey all hold the plano style clear boxes like this:
http://www.eburch.biz/plano_prolatch_stowaways-1.htm
So I had a bunch of different sized ones I could try out in the pockets of the chest pack. These are what will fit in there:
Large back pocket up to a 11" x 8" x 2 1/4"
small back pocket a 7" x 4" x 1 1/2" fits in there but you could go another 1" long and 1" tall
Larger front pocket easily holds a 9" x 4 1/2" x 1 3/8" and there is room to go another 1" wide and a couple inches taller. Two of the 7" x 4" x 1 1/2" fit perfect side by side.
Medium front pocket has kind of a zip out workstation thing with a hard plastic insert to give it rigidity so I wouldn't put a box in there but tools and leaders ect. maybe but it's only a little smaller than the big pocket so you could fit the 9" x 4 1/2" x 1 3/8" in there with room to spare.
The small front pocket can hold a 7" x 3" x 1" or so box.
There are loops on the sides of the front to clip knives or tools to and straps hanging off the back that you could roll up a jacket or a poncho and like sleeping bag straps on a back pack they would hold it.
I am a big man 6' - 300lbs and this fits me easily so smaller folks could even wear it over a life preserver (vest kayaking kind not the big old orange ones)
I have a big plastic tackle box and a couple of tackle bagsthey all hold the plano style clear boxes like this:
http://www.eburch.biz/plano_prolatch_stowaways-1.htm
So I had a bunch of different sized ones I could try out in the pockets of the chest pack. These are what will fit in there:
Large back pocket up to a 11" x 8" x 2 1/4"
small back pocket a 7" x 4" x 1 1/2" fits in there but you could go another 1" long and 1" tall
Larger front pocket easily holds a 9" x 4 1/2" x 1 3/8" and there is room to go another 1" wide and a couple inches taller. Two of the 7" x 4" x 1 1/2" fit perfect side by side.
Medium front pocket has kind of a zip out workstation thing with a hard plastic insert to give it rigidity so I wouldn't put a box in there but tools and leaders ect. maybe but it's only a little smaller than the big pocket so you could fit the 9" x 4 1/2" x 1 3/8" in there with room to spare.
The small front pocket can hold a 7" x 3" x 1" or so box.
There are loops on the sides of the front to clip knives or tools to and straps hanging off the back that you could roll up a jacket or a poncho and like sleeping bag straps on a back pack they would hold it.