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i use plastic pill bottle's (labels removed ) to store split-shot , hooks , ect .label with a permate marker and your all set .
a empty teflon tape dispencer can be used for string used to make leader lines or sinker lines . i duct tape one end to the inside spool , wrap the line by hand , then poke a hole in the cover and feed the line out thru there . snap it together and you can pull out what you need easy and mess free .
thoes plastic gum packages ( gum by the foot ) , there round and split in the middle with one side hinged . great for storage of spools of line out of the package or for lures like little cleo's and hot n' tots .
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Hi there lonehunter,
Cool things in a vest. I like the oblong tick tack breath mint boxes to hold sinkers, indicators and such as they lay flat in the vest and only half the top opens up. I've found a 'part' that is sewing needle sharp on one end and the diameter of your little finger on the other. This thing is great to get wind knots out of fly leaders. (who me?, wind knots, did I say that!)
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you amaze me ron , always one step ahead with a good tip !
your pal lonehunter .
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[  ]Hey guys ever have that shredded beef jerky or is that just a "utah" thing HAHA anyway it comes in a round plastic container I get it for 79cents and when i've eaten the jerky I use the container for a fly box you could also use Altoid tins too but their metal and on cold mornings metal is the last thing I want to touch.
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[font "Arial"][size 2]..There are a lot of things you could put in a fishing vest but one thing that is a good thing to have is finger nail clippers to cut line.
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yea the metal boxes would seem good but they don't work worth a darn , i use 35mm camera film containers too .
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i use the larger toe nail clippers , there a lot easier to use in the spring when we still have snow comming down , the fingers just don't hold onto smaller tools ( your fingers go numb from the cold ) . i put a small spring clip on the end for easy clip on/off to the vest .
thanks ! more great tips !
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the best tool for stream fishing is a good pair of needlenosed pliers
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Hi again lonehunter,
Before my eyes got weaker and I had not lost so much of my night vision (everybody loses that as you get older, it's the cones) I used to carry one of those silly little lite pens that you press the end to activate. I had a deluxe model that had a little plastic magnifyer cliped on the body. It came with a key ring clip.
I've got to use the head lamp nowdays for dawn or dusk fishing. That's what I get for getting older. ha ha
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LIKE THOES FOLD UP GERBER MULTI-TOOLS ?
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I HAVE SEEN SOME IN THE KIDS TOY DEPARTMENT $25.00 CHEAPER THAN THE SAME EXACT MODEL SOLD IN THE SAME STORES SPORTING GOODS DEPARTMENT . I HAVE A PAIR IN MY BOW HUNTING CASE , I DON'T KNOW WHY I NEVER THOUGHT OF USEING THEM FOR FISHING TOO !
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For me, the most important things I carry fishing are a combo hemostat/scissors (you can even get one now that has a pin on it to tie nail knots and heavy ones that work almost as well as needle-nose pliers), my worn-out Hank Robert's Walton's thumb (along the lines of JapanRon, I most use the Thumb's bodkin to untangle rats nests), and a Leatherman. For my big fish vest, I used the heavier combo hemostat/scissors and an Able Perfect Tool instead of the Walton's Thumb which I no longer can find.
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[size 2]I keep 2 litter bottles. I made a crude drill adapter using the cap. What I do when I need to take line off a reel is wind it around the bottle then use the drill[  ][/size]
[size 2]I can un-spool like 300yrs very quickly without damaging the spool or reel. I also have an adapter for putting line on.
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[size 2]I am working on the conventional one[ ] I saw somethig similar for sale at a Fishing Show but of course they wanted like $20 and all it was, was a 2 litter bottle cap and a drill bit adapter[crazy][/size]
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I forgot to mention, in my earlier reply, one other item I'm now giving strong thought to carrying -- at least have in my car.
On a recent trip, I jabbed a hook into one of my fingers. I tried to cut it out, but it was too deep. I tried to turn it to drive the barb back out so I could cut the barb off, but it was too close to the bone to do that. I'd read how you can loop some line around the curve of the hook, press the hook's eye down and give a sharp, hard jerk on the looped line, but I wasn't that sure how to do that and thought that must hurt like hell!!
I ended up going to the nearest town's emergency room. The doc there pulled a really neat trick. He took a 20 gauge hypodermic needle, ran it along side the hook, and covered the barb with the end of the needle. Everything came out as smooth as -- yeah, yeah, I can hear a bunch of you laughing and saying, "a barbless hook".
Maybe someday, I get good enough to go barbless, but I still lose too many with a barbed one.
Anyway, I plan to start carrying a 20 gauge needle in the car when I go fishing.
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the line trick works , and yes it do tingle a bit , lol !
the trick is to push the eye of the hook down to the skin without sinking the hook further in . use heavy MONO line looped thru the hooks gap (against and paralelle to the skin ) and one quick snap and it's out .
now this may be o.k. for the fleshey parts of the body , but for the face avd along veins, nerves and other "could do more damage than good " areas i would recomend stabilising the hook by surounding or packing around it with whatever is availible and then taping it in place so that there is no further penetration . then do like you did , go see the doc .
oh yea , never cut the hook off short if it is attached to a lure , leave as much there as possible . like a porcupine quill the barb will travel and eventually kill .
great subgect on this one , most people never think about it untill there "stuck " in the same situation .
got any other tips ?
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I myself always carry hemostat scissors. I am an EMT and find those things usefull in my every day job as well as for fishing.
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i use a 30 day pill a day containers the hold more varity of weight and hooks
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lol ! i just saw a 10 day container at the store and thought how great this would be to keep my hook sizes seperated !
the 10 day planer was a little too small thou ,
i use pencil lead and split shot for my weights , i saw some neet containers at fishingtackleplus.com , there link is posted on the home page here !
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[font "Arial"][size 2]All of this things in your fishing vests and no crazy glue. I go through 15 or 20 tubes a year. You would be surprised to see some thing I have fixed with crazy glue. It works good for gluing jig skirts to the jig heads, to put on knots and a lot of other things.[/size][/font]
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I DO IF THE FISH ARE REAL PICKEY DURING THE SPAWN RUN , A DAB OF CRAZY GLUE ON A # 20 HOOK WILL HOLD A SINGLE EGG AND GET ME THE OLDER SMARTER FISH . I KEEP IT IN THE JEEP , LESS CHANCE OF A LEAKY TUBE THERE .
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