Tackle/Fishing Supplies..Tips/Tricks

[OldTimer]

Here are a few “other” things I find quite handy to take on my fishing adventures:

Wet Naps: – the pre-moistened towelettes in individual wrappers that you typically use to wipe yourself after eating BBQ ribs or wings. These are real handy to clean up and de-scent your fishy hands at snack or lunch time (after handling bait and fish all mornin’). I get mine at Wal-Mart………. $2 for 54 of them. Only need to carry a few…

Polaroid Sunglasses – a good pair – so that you can see much better beneath the surface of the water, (and for eye protection from the sun or flying objects). An absolute must for river fisherman. A lot of the lure companies now sell these at fair prices. You can tell if sunglasses are true Polaroid technology if you take two pairs, stack them sorta - and look through two lenses at the same time………. if when you turn them to an opposing 90 degree orientation you find that you can no longer see through them at all- they are polarizing lenses.

Hat…. duh…………. You know why……… BTW the brim faces to the front……….. smile……..

A (“now banned in Toronto”) plastic grocery bag without leaks: They compress to nothing and have a thousand possible uses. (garbage, fish, sorta hold together a smashed Styrofoam worm container, a make shift minnow container… etc…)

If you fish with others…………. An old messed up CD disc……… one of the best sun reflective signalling devices around…….. just quarter to the sun - with the highly mirrored surface towards the target – look through the hole at your target and move the disc to and fro to send a flash at your partner. (I got this one at a Coast Guard survival course)

Strawberry or Black Licorice Twizzlers :… cuz I like them…and they are easy to eat while fishin’………….smile.

Cheers,

OldTimer