Don't know about you lot but why o why do I take so much gear when I go fishing.
I do fish for carp but I am not a carp angler, but when ever I fishing i seem to take everything with me
A big bag with two large fox boxes and two small fox boxes, all cramed full of bits. On top of that there are three to five reels, (just in case) a rod hold all with five rods, umbrella, bank sticks, landing net etc, another big bag with food (mine and the fish) and cooking kit, and finally my chair. I have to lug this lot to the bank as I don't have a barrow.
Why o why do I lug so much and then only use about 10% of it I have tried so many times to cut down what I take but still end up taking everything. The only time I manage is if I know I will only be float fishing, other than that I have to take everything just in case.
I've doen it in the past - for a few hours fishing I've took a rucksack, holdall , 2 rods, 2 reels , brolly, chair, kitchen sink
in recent years I've cut down - it's a matter of checking what I take to make sure I've got enought of what I need and not every bit of kit I've got
for example if I'm fishing the maggot feeder I'll take 6 feeders in case I loose some and a couple of open end feeder in case I want to switch to a groundbait attack and 1 bag of groundbait- not all the maggot feedres I've got plus some all my open ended feeders plus leads, plus several different bags of groundbait
try cutting down a bit at a time - cold turkey is not the way to go - you'll panic that you've left something behind
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Horses for courses. Sometimes I take the kitchen sink, sometimes I take a single rod, landing net and just what bits and bait I can carry in a bait apron.
I had a brilliant holiday a few years ago as a treat for my 40th. Log cabin next to a lake - so you could take the kitchen sink and leave it on the covered veranda on the cabin... set up a load of rods, but then each day (or morning or afternoon or evening, whatever) you just grab the rod(s) and bits you need for the next few hours and a bucket of bait and go fishing, at a lake all of 20 yards away. The times I very much enjoyed were the evenings, when instead of the terrible chore of packing up from a day long session (which usually seems to take me a good 45 minutes) I'd just pick up what I was using, walk back to the cabin and dump it on the veranda and open a beer; and also the mornings, when you could wake up, grab a cup of coffee and then pick up the rods and bait and a chair and be fishing ten minutes later, again bypassing the another terrible chore - setting up!!
(took me bloody ages to pack up when it was time to go home though )
After some 48 years fishing, and I know still a whipper snapper compared to some, I think I now take to the bank what I need. The reason I say this, is that it tends to concentrate ones mind to the task in hand. So if I`m trotting I stick to the trotting rod etc.....
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I agree it's the Just in case syndrome, but when you get older and the aches and pains set in. After a while it sort of becomes second nature to leave kit at home. Until that is, you get to the bank and find no reel or landing net.
The next step is to put everything in the car Just in case I forget something syndrome and take out only what you need.
You then move onto the next stage after walking from the parking area **** it i've left it in the car syndrome
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A good 60% of my time is spent on the Thames tributaries and then I carry very little. For other modes of angling I take one of a couple of old Evolution medium carryalls loaded with whatever would be required for a session plus a holdall or quiver. I rarely take more than I can comfortably carry in one journey to a swim, however near or far it may be.
Jerry
PS I also have an odds and sods bag that I tend to leave in the car just in case, the rest stays in the garage.
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