Stupid rigged tube

[vernon]

14 hours ago, dtrs5kprs said:

Theoretically, it makes one less thing to carry. 

I'll just leave that there...

Thinking "thrifty" as always!

[abkeenan]

12 hours ago, dtrs5kprs said:

I like to imagine it. Knowing full well it's not going to happen.

I think I get better work outs when I am on vacation at Table Rock than I do during the week at the gym. From our house to the dock is about 80 yards down a winding path of native gravel. Lugging about 8 rod combos, a back pack loaded with soft plastics, my sonar gear in a pistol case, a backpack cooler, an extra draw string Trokar bag filled with stuff I don't really need and then my 50 pound Browning top loader tackle bag with my hoard of hard baits/terminal tackle in ten 3700 Plano's plus accessories.....I could probably survive for a month on Everest with my fishaneering gear. I usually make this trek twice a day up and down the 20% grade due to the thieves. I am huffing and puffing after making it to the Garage Summit. Some times I need to stop at Base Camp B to get a breather. I often times think about downsizing to make things easier on myself. But that cowardly thought only lasts for a split second. This journey gets tougher each year as I get older and because my "tackle issue" is always adding weight to the arsenal. All of this of course done in ONE trip. It's like unloading groceries from the car.....two trips is for the weak!

For extra bonus torture I like the no breaks double five gallon gas can farmers walk to the dock. It's a real forearm and traps burner. 

[dtrs5kprs]

And that's another reason not to own a slip...

[MOPanfisher]

I end up fishing a lot out of other people's boat so I have a tackle box just for that, somewhat downsized Plano bag with 4 or 5 of the 3600 sized trays.  Shove it in a 5 gallon bucket and grab at most 3 rods.  Still I would hate to pack it up and down a hill to/from a dock every time.  Personally I have zero desire to ever own a dock on any lake, but I have a biased view probably.

[Sore Thumbs]

I used to fish out of backs of boats as well. The best tackle box I used was a Shimano back pack. Frees up both hands to carry rods and my food and drinks. One of the best things you can buy is those rod straps at BPS. Keeps all your rods together when you are carrying them. Bout 5 dollars and worth their weight in gold. 

[abkeenan]

3 hours ago, MOPanfisher said:

I end up fishing a lot out of other people's boat so I have a tackle box just for that, somewhat downsized Plano bag with 4 or 5 of the 3600 sized trays.  Shove it in a 5 gallon bucket and grab at most 3 rods.  Still I would hate to pack it up and down a hill to/from a dock every time.  Personally I have zero desire to ever own a dock on any lake, but I have a biased view probably.

I actually don't mind at all hauling all of my gear back and forth from the dock/boat slip to the house. Might change my tune when I am 50. But, I consider it a blessing to have immediate access to the water with a private 2 slip dock by it's lonesome in a cove. That is until Alex "raids" it and catches all my pets.

[m&m]

Abk, I'm wondering why you just don't fish around your dock like the rest of us do. Where could you go in a boat that is better than that spot?

Mike

[Champ188]

23 hours ago, tapout said:

I do think I miss a few, but the fact that the hook hits the mouth and not the gut is worth a few misses to me.

I like the way you think.

[abkeenan]

21 hours ago, Sore Thumbs said:

I used to fish out of backs of boats as well. The best tackle box I used was a Shimano back pack. Frees up both hands to carry rods and my food and drinks. One of the best things you can buy is those rod straps at BPS. Keeps all your rods together when you are carrying them. Bout 5 dollars and worth their weight in gold. 

I agree with the back pack tackle bag. Makes all the sense in the world. My brother uses a regular backpack not designed for fishing for his gear. I just got this Browning bag 2 Xmas's ago because it holds more 3700 boxes (10) than anything else I could find and is made pretty well. I searched and SEARCHED........AND SEARCHED SOME MORE for the biggest tackle bag that was a back pack style that was large enough for my needs. I looked at Shimano, etc. There just isn't anything on the market that suited what I wanted to do with it. I looked into military back packs, ammo back packs and various other styles of back packs. I thought about making one myself but I am no seamstress. I guess there isn't a market for idiots like me that want to load around 100+lbs of tackle into a bag and haul it around. Well....... there might be one other person in this market aside from me and he lives in Kansas.

[dtrs5kprs]

1 minute ago, abkeenan said:

I agree with the back pack tackle bag. Makes all the sense in the world. My brother uses a regular backpack not designed for fishing for his gear. I just got this Browning bag 2 Xmas's ago because it holds more 3700 boxes (10) than anything else I could find and is made pretty well. I searched and SEARCHED........AND SEARCHED SOME MORE for the biggest tackle bag that was a back pack style that was large enough for my needs. I looked at Shimano, etc. There just isn't anything on the market that suited what I wanted to do with it. I looked into military back packs, ammo back packs and various other styles of back packs. I thought about making one myself but I am no seamstress. I guess there isn't a market for idiots like me that want to load around 100+lbs of tackle into a bag and haul it around. Well....... there might be one other person in this market aside from me and he lives in Kansas.

No one here has any tackle. Just rusty 4/0 catfish hooks and $2 spools of Shakespeare line. We use coffee cans.