Small Boat Guys

[Denny Welch]

Tom they let you launch boat in the goldfish pond at the old folks home? I thought Denny got his bingo card taken away for a week because of that  by bucket he means bed pan

Hahahahahaha. At the rate I'm going it won't be long.

If I'm fishing someone else's boat I'll take a bag that gotta weigh at least 30 pounds.  I'll end up using less than 2% of it.  It reverts back to the old dog, new trick thing.  If I'm in my boat, I'm like Andy towing a gear boat behind me.  I like to think of it as a convoy.

[WALLEYE WACKER]

If I'm fishing with someone two rod bags and a tackle bag  for what we are after but there are some bait's in case we have to change  plans. When I'm in my boat I take enough to fish for any thing.

[Apdriver]

LOL! You guys have it all wrong. Just go buy a bigger boat! 

[Lamar]

LOL! You guys have it all wrong. Just go buy a bigger boat! 

  I did that. Now I have to put the motor all the way down and swing the break away tongue over and then only have inches to get the garage door down. Plus I have to lower the motor and the power poles just to get it in the door. Trust me there's no more room for a bigger boat. I told the wife I could put a bigger boat in on an angel but her car would have to sit outside. The look she gave me told me that was a bad idea. So I told her not to complain that the basement is full of tackle. I simply have no place to put it.

[pjmcla]

Think about what species of fish you will be chasing. time of the year and what body of water you will be fishing.  That should help a lot on narrowing down what tackle / rods to take.  The Tennessee River requires different "stuff" than the much clearer, deeper Smith Lake.

[2XL]

I mostly fish jigs and plastic with a smattering of crankbait fishing thrown in. I keep my cranks and plastics in Plano boxes carried in a soft sided tackle bag. Depending on what I am fishing with for the day determines which Plano boxes I take with me. If I am going to cast cranks for the day , I add more boxes with cranks in them OR I break out the Special Mate box which carries a PILE of cranks.  If I am fishing plastics for the day I add more boxes with plastics in them. I carry my jigs in small Plano boxes in a small tackle bag about the size of a loaf of bread. Since I'm the jig maker, the jig bag always goes with me in my boat or when I go with someone else in their boat.

My fishing partner and I pretty much have an open tackle box policy where either of us are welcome to use each others stuff. Since we pretty much fish the same stuff, that policy eliminates a lot of trying to decide what to bring when fishing in each others boats for the day.

[jmatheny9]

Does a kayak count as I small boat?? If it does I only take a few bags of 5" senkos and a few of 4" lizards. No tackle bag or nothing! A cheaper ultralight, a small box of terminal tackle, a paddle, and a pair of swimming trunks are about the only thing else that comes with me lol. If the smallies aren't biting on what I'm tossing at them, then it's swimming time


  -Jeremiah         Bullfrog lures

[mike27]

hey don't knock  bingo I've got a lot of tackle off my wife bingo winnings

[andrewlamberson]

You know....you really just need to get a bigger boat!

You start pouring plastics....then lead....then you read Marc's posts on Blade baits and you have a couple 30# boxes of those, and few hundred spinner baits that you make up after you get that mold. And even though the Bat Jig is small....I bet I've molded 20#s of those little buggers this winter! And don't even get me started on how many swim jig molds I have now and the hundred or so swim jigs of each I have  in the boat!

I gave up and ordered a new Crestliner Fishhawk 1650 last weekend to hold "most" of my gear! I upgraded to the 75hp Merc for the power I'll need.

I was thinking about the 1750 or even the 1850 to make sure I had enough room and HP to push the boat loaded down with plastic and lead...but they won't fit in my 3rd door in my garage!

(I wish I was really kidding about the above!!!) 

Andy

[Botanophilia]

While fishing trips may get planned weeks or even months in advance, I'm a busy guy in summer and don't have time to customize for each trip.  And if we're heading out with the canoe we may change locations based on what we see when we get where we're going.  So I pack a lot of stuff into my bag. The fact it's a backpack tackle bag is important as I may fish from shore, a kayak, a canoe, or a 16' boat.   Carried on my back it's not terribly heavy and frees up my hands for 3 or 4 rods and a net if needed. 



A box of shallow cranks, a box of deep cranks, a box of inline spinners, a misc box of spoons and other assorted goodies, a box of terminal tackle and some panfish sized cranks and spinners.  A spinner bait bag.  And plastic bags of plastics.  1 Bag is frogs, worms, and tubes; my most used bass baits.  1 bag is other asst bass baits. The other 2 bags are panfish baits.