Organized. Not me.

[John Ellison]

After my lengthy break from fishing due to illness, today was the day when I was going to 'sort my gear out'. I've been in the spare bedroom sorting out/throwing out all afternoon, and things just don't seem any different.

I have got scores and scores of different feeders and I don't like feeder fishing!

I buy them, get them home, and improve them!

Same with floats. I've got pole floats I've ruined by taking the bristle out and putting my own in, then to find, I wished I'd I've left it as it was.

Pole winders. I've got pole winders by the dozen rigged up. Not a clue what they are rigged up for, with a few exceptions. Not now, I've just trashed the lot.

Floppy discs. I keep a fishing diary on floppies.

I also keep specialist info ie. Pellet fishing, meat fishing, paste fishing etc, things I don't do much of but can just scan the floppy and make a couple of rigs up. Where is it? Can't find it!

Dozens and dozens of articles written by specialists in that kind of fishing and it's missing.

One big favour I did myself and I keep up with, is when I buy any line, I write the date I bought it on the spool. I am frequently astounded how long it sometimes is when I check out the dates. I've been slicing line up all afternoon with the scissors. Is there anyone else as organized as me out there?

[Leon Roskilly]

Lure angling for bass, long-trotting for roach, feathering for mackeral, deadbaiting for pike, swim-feedering for bream.

 

I've got my gear laid out in those flattish cardboard boxes that the apples come in at the supermarket.

 

Organised?

 

Well, not really, you see so much tackle is dual-purpose.

 

I'll generally take my scales, unhooking mat, camera, and stuff like that, whatever I'm fishing for.

 

But then maybe I'll borrow some small freshwater bombs if I'm fishing a slack tide on the estuary, or perhaps take my bait knife out of my sea box to cut up some pike deadbaits.

 

It's amazing how soon everything gets jumbled together, which means hunting through it all when I've a trip planned.

 

"I know I've got some pierced bullets somewhere!"

 

Then I keep coming across stuff that might be useful, that I hadn't thought of taking down to the river with me.

 

Soon I'm piling out stuff into a bigger bag, then thinking 'I don't need all of this!' and putting stuff back into the wrong box to complicate future searches.

 

It sometimes seems just too much trouble to get my stuff ready to go fishing.

 

And of course, half way there, I always remember something that I meant to bring!

 

Tight Lines - leon

[NetFull]

Yep there deffinately is. You should see my tackle ------- didnt mean that

But seriously i need to have a clean i think i carry as much weight in rubbish as tackle, at least i dont leave all the line and empty tins on the bank though its all in the bottom of my box

[chesters1]

i'm very organised ,carp rods in their own rodbag rest of the carpy stuff in its own tackle box ,same for float stuff and sea stuff surf and boat,none of this taking some bits from one box for another, each box has its own bits all i have to do is grab them and away

[argyll]

Totally disorganised, largely because I'm always on my way to, or on my way back, from a trip. There's gear in every room in the house and whilst I started filing everything into an IKEA expandable set of office drawers, IKEA have now stopped making the drawers. Final solution I think, is a large chest of drawers in the hall with tupperware boxes. Being disorganised means recently having to track down an increasingly bad smell to two forgotten and putrifying lamphreys left in a bag in the dining room. I dry retched all the way to the dustbin.

 

[ 14. June 2005, 08:17 PM: Message edited by: argyll ]