I got a little bored today after coming back from a bank walking/fishing outing. I started thinking about all of that gear that I hauled around for a couple of miles and didn't use. My fishing time is limited right now, maybe 2-3 hours, so I am strictly bank walking for the time being. I wanted to get down to MY essentials. The baits and gear that always produce for ME.

Here it is all in one box with one rod and reel.

G.Loomis CR723 w/Citica 200E

Zoom plastics(6' Lizards, Ole Monsters, Super Chuncks, and Trick Worms) w/ a decent selection of hooks and lead

Cranks(Jackall Aragon SSRs and SRs, BPS Rattle Shads)

Swims(Jackall Mickey Jr.s and Girons)

Buzzbaits and Spinnerbaits( Booyah 3 of each:White,Char,Black)

Jigs( Spot Removers and Booyah 1/4oz and 1/2oz, Black/Blue and Green Pumpkin)

Pliers, Swiss Army knife, Spool of Berkley Big Game, Reel Oil

When it is all like this, it is hard to believe there is more than $500 laying there.

As one who is permanently shorebound, I also travel as light and as minimal as I can. I have a few plano boxes assigned to certain lure types and bring only those boxes I think will serve me best that day. I place them in my backpack and bring along a BASS shoulder bag to carry my soft plastics.

Flambeau BackPack $14.00 @ walmart (or was)

Then I bring usually 3 rods that I can carry in one hand with my homemade contraption, my rod quiver.

It seems to always draw questions from anglers and non-anglers alike. It can stand upright on its own or I prop it on my BASS bag. Thankfully it eliminates the need to lay the unused rigs on the ground.

Man and here I am like a sucker carrying all my tackle and fumble around, and if I fall everything goes everywhere.

at the moment , i just have a 10" tool bag with a shoulder strap that i carry my tackle in.

- one double sided plano box with a few cranks and tackle for freshwater.

- another smaller double sided plano box with tackle for saltwater , which isnt much since i dont go saltwater too often.

- a few ziplock bags of plastics but i usually bring one with a couple of everything

- cheap-o multi-tool that i use for the needle nose

- bug spray

- nail clippers (im trying to break the habit of biting the line instead of cutting it)

- maybe a spool of line if i think ill need a leader

- and i need to pick up one of those small first aid kits

for now , i just carry two rods with me. a 5'UL rig and a 6'6M casting rig.

islandbass , love the rod caddy. i actually seen that picture before and decided to make my own....but with 2"x6"'s , lol. my job was going to throw out some perfectly good wood , so i took it.

For only 2-3 hours of bank fishing I carry 1 rod, and 2 or 3 lure boxes on my pocket.  2 xrap, 1 spoon, 2 roostertail, 1 spinnerbait, 1 topwater and few crappie jigs, maybe a bag of senkos in my back pocket (worm fishing is boring and I try to avoid it ).  Always produces, I have no need to carry more.

For me it's usually just one rod and one hard lure,

or a couple of soft plastics and a jig. I like to practice

using all my rod & reel combinations which dictates

what I fish. I rarely use any treble hooks that fish

below the surface.

This is my tacklebox for bank fishing:

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?id=0018716902478a&type=product&cmCat=SEARCH_all&returnPage=search-results1.jsp&Ntt=safari+vest&Ntk=Products&sort=all&Go.y=9&_D%3AhasJS=+&N=0&_D%3Asort=+&Nty=1&hasJS=true&Go.x=17&_DARGS=%2Fcabelas%2Fen%2Fcommon%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-box.jsp.form1&_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1

8-)

I got a little bored today after coming back from a bank walking/fishing outing. I started thinking about all of that gear that I hauled around for a couple of miles and didn't use. My fishing time is limited right now, maybe 2-3 hours, so I am strictly bank walking for the time being. I wanted to get down to MY essentials. The baits and gear that always produce for ME.

Here it is all in one box with one rod and reel.

G.Loomis CR723 w/Citica 200E

Zoom plastics(6' Lizards, Ole Monsters, Super Chuncks, and Trick Worms) w/ a decent selection of hooks and lead

Cranks(Jackall Aragon SSRs and SRs, BPS Rattle Shads)

Swims(Jackall Mickey Jr.s and Girons)

Buzzbaits and Spinnerbaits( Booyah 3 of each:White,Char,Black)

Jigs( Spot Removers and Booyah 1/4oz and 1/2oz, Black/Blue and Green Pumpkin)

Pliers, Swiss Army knife, Spool of Berkley Big Game, Reel Oil

When it is all like this, it is hard to believe there is more than $500 laying there.

You can pretty much store all that stuff in a couple of Plano 3600 boxes and put them those in a backpack instead of carrying around that T-box in one hand while you got the other one busy holding your rod.

Not trying to be the smart one here but been here long enough and have fished for a while to tell you I did what you are doing, fished most of my life from shore and one thing is for shure ..... sooner or later you gonna need a free hand and you can 't have it cuz you got that t-box keeping it busy.

Yeah Raul, I was thinking about that. The tackle box was a gift from my youngest daughter, so I have to use it. The handle is hollow, so I have put a length of flat webbing through it for a sling. I know the plano box and backpack thing, but I did the same as usual. I packed everything I could get into it and it became more of a pain. This little box is not packed, has all I NEED(the lures I actually fish,not just look at in the box), carrys well with the sling, and fits perfect behind the seat of my little pickup.

Of course I could always drop back to my trusty Zebco and a rooster tail.

RW For me it's usually just one rod and one hard lure,

or a couple of soft plastics and a jig. I like to practice

using all my rod & reel combinations which dictates

what I fish. I rarely use any treble hooks that fish

below the surface.

This is my tacklebox for bank fishing:

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?id=0018716902478a&typ...

Good idea RW. I actually never thought about a vest   ... That one had lots of pockets, I wonder if I can find one a little lower priced though?  :-/

I found this interesting this morning. My wife has many(about a hundred) smaller B/W photos of our families on the hall wall. I just happened to glance at a picture of my grandfather and I fishing when I was around 6 or 7. My basic tackle looks eerily similar to what my grandfather has in the picture. Other than mine being more modern( my Citica to his AG, my box plastic to his aluminum), my setup looks alot alike. This was the man that taught me how to fish, use a baitcaster, and instilled his love of bass fishing into me. This man knew how to fish well and always caught plenty(some even became dinner). I just found the picture ironic and very interesting. Sometimes we do better if we go back to where we started.

I wished I had a scanner so I could put the picture on here.