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    What do I need?
    I think too many of us carry to much gear without knowing it!! Need to hear what you take along for a trip down the river or a day on the lake.

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    The more I really know about where I am going to fish, the less I need to take with me.

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    I was once told that when we move we should box everything, label it, and if we havent opened a box in a year we should throw it out.

    Perhaps if we put masking tape on everything at the beginning of the season, removed the tape on anything we used, then got rid of everything with masking tape on it at the end of the season we would be doing better.

    Just a thought

    Eric
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    when i go to the local lake i just take a william joseph chest pack(the smaller one) with 2 medium fly boxes and 3 spools of tippet 3x,4x,5 and i carry the usual dry nymph and streamers with my nippers and forceps. oh and a n extra leader or 2 thats pretty light it only weighs in at 1lb3ozs

    when i take my fest fully loaded it only weighs around 2lb 14oz
    so i pack pretty light

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    2 (TWO) Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches, individually wrapped in their own baggy. 1 (ONE) bottle of water. 1 (ONE) sandwich in each side pocket of my float tube, along with my six fly boxes, leader wallet and other junk.
    The 2 (TWO) Peanut Butter sandwiches are NOT to be consumed until said wiches are flattened by my arms resting on them after HOURS of fishing. The 2 (TWO) sandwiches are similiar to fine wine that has to age, except you can't flatten wine and except the 2 (TWO) sandwiches only need to age for a few hours.
    The marriage of Peanut Butter & Jelly in this way is a delight to the pallet.
    Doug
    Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them- these are the best guides for man. A.E.

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    Rod reel, 5x and 7x tippet an extra leader. One small flybox with about 100 flies in it all jumbled together. clippers , knife , net , 2 liters of gatorade , No lunch ( thats what the first fish is for ) Waterproof Matches. 6 extra spools of sinking line from type 1 to type 6. plus 1 extra spool with One floating line and 1 extra spool with a sink tip floating line. Whew!! thats about it.

    I have a small butane stove and a small cast iron fry pan in the truck for shore lunch . Plus a bit of butter and a potato for frying along with the fish. ( If I get skunked , I don't eat. )

    Ps My fishing vest is also an inflatable life jacket.

    I also have 4 or 5 of the servants follow me around in a larger boat with all the rest of my stuff.
    For God's sake, Don't Quote me! I'm Probably making this crap up!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gnu Bee Flyer
    Rod reel, 5x and 7x tippet an extra leader. One small flybox with about 100 flies in it all jumbled together. clippers , knife , net , 2 liters of gatorade , No lunch ( thats what the first fish is for ) Waterproof Matches. 6 extra spools of sinking line from type 1 to type 6. plus 1 extra spool with One floating line and 1 extra spool with a sink tip floating line. Whew!! thats about it.

    I have a small butane stove and a small cast iron fry pan in the truck for shore lunch . Plus a bit of butter and a potato for frying along with the fish. ( If I get skunked , I don't eat. )

    Ps My fishing vest is also an inflatable life jacket.

    I also have 4 or 5 of the servants follow me around in a larger boat with all the rest of my stuff.

    Could I borrow one of your servants?

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    I was out in the salt in my 'yak this morning.
    I had my PFD, a paddle, a bottle of water, an 8wt with a floating 9wt line.
    A lanyard with nippers, hemostats, and a whistle.
    In my tackle bag was a single, large box of flys, a spool of tippet, and a leader wallet containing extra leaders, lead heads and wire.
    That's it...

    (caught a bunch of stripers 20 -26")
    The simpler the outfit, the more skill it takes to manage it, and the more pleasure one gets in his achievements.
    --- Horace Kephart

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    The first thing I take along fly fishing is a hat. Then polorized sun glasses. Of cours a rod, reel and line. My truck always has two rods in it all summer, a 5 wt and a 9 weight, each reel has a spool for flating and sink tip line. One Cordua double rod case with reels attached. A vest with a leader and tippet wallet. 3 small fly boxes, dry, wet and big fish flies. Of course the vest has floatant, skeeter repelant, Scissor and clippers. The release net is under the back seat of the truck and the lunch and drink is in a creel. When I get to where I want to go, the leader wallet, a small box of "flies for the day (about 10 patterns of 6 each flies) go in the creel and the sunglasses,net and hat are on my head, and. off I go.......ready to fish. Here in SE Michigan I hardly ever don waders, I can cast from shore and still make a decent day of it. Oh yeah, lunch usually consists of cookies, peanut butter and blackberry jelly sandwich on rye bread, bottled water and a Verners. Venison Jerky if its still around and it isn't by early summer and chewing gum. Maybe a nice cigar or a pipe if I'm gonna be gone for more than 5 or 6 hours. I don't usually take my dog along but I do have a dog biscuit in my pocket in case I run into a mutt checking out the water like me. One thing that I can never go without is a bandanna. It has heald a wound, put cold water on my neck from a bee sting, cooled me off on a hot day and kept the sun off my neck on a hot parched day. Sounds like a lot, but just basic stuff to me.

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    I take everything including the kitchen sink. I don't like being un-prepared and I don't like feeling I forgot something. I agree that we take too much stuff, but isn't that why we buy it? The one thing I will leave home is a bad attitude and thoughts about work.

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