Howdy, partner.
Today I'm going to show you guys how I travel with all my fishing gear.
Stay tuned.
We have been getting a lot of questions and a lot of comments asking us, "how do you travel
with all your fishing stuff?
How do you bring your rods?
How do you bring your reels?
How do you bring all your sinkers and tackle and all that stuff?" and that's a really good
question.
Um, and I guess it isn't really too much common sense in that.
I figured out how to bring all my stuff on the airplane for pretty much free.
First off, fly Southwest.
Southwest is great because it allows you two checked in bags for free and it's great and
the prices for the tickets are great, you can change the dates on those tickets that
you've bought anytime, Southwest has always been really good for me, so first step: fly
Southwest.
Second step: when you're packing your reels,
when you're packing your babies they need
to be protected, okay?
So this wasn't even very protected when I pack my reels, I take this actual reel off
so that there's no chance of it getting damaged, so it's like this and then I wrap this up
in a towel and put it into a big bag along with my other reels, so in here I've got one,
two--see, these are the pouches I'm talking about, you can get these from Bass Pro, you
can get these from online, you wrap your reels up with them.
I've got--that's where this reel went--little tiny micro reel...
This isn't even mine!
Stephen, this is your mom's reel.
Anyways, when I pack my reels, I break 'em down, I put them into individual bags, and
then I put it into a bigger bag and this does not go in checked in luggage.
They like to---the TSA likes to throw my bags around and I don't want any chance of my very
precious fishing reels to get damaged or broken so what I do with this bag of reels is I put
it in my backpack for carryon, that way I can protect it in my, right here, okay?
I keep it right here at all times and I just kind of coddle it like this, throughout the
flight, and if they start making--you know, fussing and stuff, I just say "Chh, chh, chh,
chh, chh......
Chhh, chh, chh, chh, chh..." and I kind of rock it back and forth a little bit----
I'm just kidding, guys.
You can't take yourself too seriously.
Okay, any--I'm not kidding about actually bringing it onto the plane and holding it
in front of you, um, that's the best way to keep your reel safe.
Don't check it in.
Carry on.
Okay?
Next, for my actual rods and stuff, um, I check that-I check that in, uh, but I do this
with--I do this with the travel rod carrier, and this thing, I think it runs--the price
tag here says $70, something like that, close to that, I got it from Bass Pro, I have many
of these, and the way that these things work is there's a clip right here that you can
put a lock on---elaughhh.
There's a pin, you pull the pin and this thing will extend--oops.... and this thing will
extend to whatever length you need it, then you put your rods inside this big tube right
here, maybe wrap it with a towel so that it doesn't swing around, and then you basically
just put the pin back in and you check this in as oversized and Southwest doesn't charge
us extra for this, um, when you go and pick up your rods it'll be in oversized luggage
but it's kind of---I get weird looks sometimes because I'm walking around with what looks
like-- a bazooka in the airport...
Now as for, like all of my fishing tackle, what kind of tackle should I bring?
You know, that's always a struggle for me is, "How much can I bring without being over
50lbs," and like, "What all do I even need to use on that trip?"
So what you really need to do is think about what kind of fishing you're going to be doing
most.
the key of this is to be very compact and selective with what you bring, um, so Southwest
allows you two checked in carryons--Southwest allows you two checked in bags, I use one
of those bags just for my tackle so I have a whole suitcase just for my tackle.
Now let me show you what I pretty much pack almost every time I go.
Okay, in this bag I've got all my lures, okay?
These are my swimbaits, I make individual boxes like this for different adventures,
so this is my swimbait adventure.
It's got all my jig heads in here, little, smaller lures, this bag also has my swimbait
stuff, leader line... pretty much always bring the Super Salty Squid nowadays... more swimbaits,
yeah, so I've made separate boxes and separate bags for different adventures that I think
I'm going to take.
This is my swimbait bag, my lures bag, and then I've got my own bait box.
Terminal tackle box so I'm pretty much prepared at any moment to throw a hi-low rig, or a
Carolina rig, or a fish finder rig just by bringing this one box.
I've got my lures and I've got my rigs.
Um, these boxes are really similar to the ones in the Adventure Kits that we make right
here, we developed these because it's pretty much exactly what I do for myself anyways,
comes with a guide on um, how to fish these different places, uh, this is a pier fishing
one, comes with all the stuff that I use for my pier fishing, this one is my surf fishing,
comes with all the stuff that I use for the surf fishing, um, and this is the jetty one,
but I would bring just the boxes, I don't need the guide for myself i'll bring just
the boxes for separate adventures.
If you want to go on one of these adventures, the inlet, if you're going to the inlet, or
if you're going to the surf or if you're going to the pier, I suggest you pick one of these
up if you wanna just get on some fish right away.
It's just, it's got a comprehensive guide on here that I've written myself on all the
different advice that I've found to be true in a lot of the places that I fish so hopefully
this will get you on some fish, and if you're going on a trip soon, I always bring the super
salty squid because it travels so well, uh you don't need to--a lot of times when I'm
at a place, especially a really good fishing location, a lot of times there's not many
bait shops around, um I like to go to more remote areas because I find that the fishing
in remote areas usually is a lot better than somewhere where it's very, very populated,
um, and I've encountered this problem in Mexico, where there were no bait shops anywhere!
It was so hard to find any kind of bait shops, that's why I was so glad I brought myself
my own Super Salty Squid, I didn't have to go out and scout out for bait every day.
Instead, I was scouting out for bait on the beach and using this.
I put all this stuff in my backpack and then I put it in here and whatever other
fishing gear I use, minus the reels, reels stay with me, and I check this in and then
I have my regular luggage that I check in, um, but yeah, that's it.
This is not the only way to do it, this is the way I do it and it's been working out
for me for years and years, um, hopefully this can help someone, inspire someone to
maybe take a trip, hopefully this can help people travel with their fishing gear with
the appropriate fishing gear, I know a lot of you guys travel to go on vacation with
the family or whatever and don't bring your fishing stuff because you don't think you'll
have enough or whatever, it's very doable, it's very doable and if you don't want to
use, if you don't want to use your--a big rod tube, bring a telescopic rod.
A telescopic rod will fit right in your backpack and you can just bring it with this in your
backpack, bring one of your adventure kits and you're good to go.
I want to encourage everyone out there to get out of their comfort zone and see what
the fishing's like around the world.
That's what we've been doing for the past year and a half, two years, and it's been
really fantastic, because a lot of the skills that we've learned fishing right here, it
applies all over the world.
So if you know how to fish in one area, you can figure out how to fish in another area
and it feels really rewarding when you actually are able to catch fish in another country
you've never been in before, it's really fun.
Anyways, that's my little talk.
I hope you guys enjoyed it, I hope it can inspire you, I hope you can learn something,
let me know in the comments below if you have any more hacks that you wanna let me know
about that can save me even more money.
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