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Fishing gearIt doesn't take a lot of gear or money to catch fish. After several years of messing around, here's my tacklebox and gear. Not much, is it? It's easy to stow, easy to deploy and retrieve, and we can handle large fish on this heavy gear.
February, 2006: A big duffel bag to hold the lines, spools (called "yo-yos"), and lures, all set up and ready to go. I just grab the yo-yo with the lure I want to use, clip or tie the inboard end of the line to a strong point, and let the lure run free. The yo-yo is set aside until you want to restow it; it's just a neat way to store your lines. The line is 375 or 485 pound test (I forget). The big yo-yos have between 40 and 60 yards of line, the small ones around 20 yards. That's all you need. We run some lures in close and some way back. Each setup is rigged with a different lure, some large, some small. If we're serious about catching fish we'll run up to 6 or 8 lines, with a different lure on each. Some days blue is hot, others pink/blue, other days green/yellow or some other color. If you put out one of each you'll often find that fish will only hit one of them; hence, the "flavor of the day." That's what the commercial guys often do. Incidentally, that 12 inch red/white squid did pretty well the first time I tried it, it brought in the yellowfin on the first page of this section. |
