I guess I am not alone in always trying to trim down the amount and weight of tackle that I lug about with me and am always looking for ways to rationalize it.
Being a more specimen orientated type of angler one of my biggest bug bears is all the ancillary items I carry that really have nothing to do with the actual catching of fish. In particular those associated with the weighing & photographing of them. ..Cameras, Scales, weigh slings and sacks.
Whats annoying is that you are obliged to carry these items with you but hardly ever actually put them to use. Frustrating !
Nowadays I have compacted it down to a set of spring scales (I still don’t have confidence in digitals) my weigh sling is usually a plastic bag or if after bigger fish a lightweight sling. Camera is a small digital with a rotating screen and infra red remote control and an adapter to allow me to screw it into a banksctick. However more and more often I find myself leaving the camera behind & relying on my Smartphone & its selfie/self take facility & a home made bankstick adapter to hold it. I also tend to carry a lightweight sack, just in case a real whopper turns up and I want to retain it.
I am interested in what other people are doing to rationalize these items. Of course the simplest solution of all is not to weigh or photograph fish, but for those that do , what do you do ?
Being a more specimen orientated type of angler one of my biggest bug bears is all the ancillary items I carry that really have nothing to do with the actual catching of fish. In particular those associated with the weighing & photographing of them. ..Cameras, Scales, weigh slings and sacks.
Whats annoying is that you are obliged to carry these items with you but hardly ever actually put them to use. Frustrating !
Nowadays I have compacted it down to a set of spring scales (I still don’t have confidence in digitals) my weigh sling is usually a plastic bag or if after bigger fish a lightweight sling. Camera is a small digital with a rotating screen and infra red remote control and an adapter to allow me to screw it into a banksctick. However more and more often I find myself leaving the camera behind & relying on my Smartphone & its selfie/self take facility & a home made bankstick adapter to hold it. I also tend to carry a lightweight sack, just in case a real whopper turns up and I want to retain it.
I am interested in what other people are doing to rationalize these items. Of course the simplest solution of all is not to weigh or photograph fish, but for those that do , what do you do ?