Detox Your Tackle Box & Your Rigs For 2025❗
Do you think you’re taking too much tackle with you when you go fishing? I know I did for many years, it’s so easy to keep adding …
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Do you think you’re taking too much tackle with you when you go fishing? I know I did for many years, it’s so easy to keep adding …
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Settled a while back on just taking enough gear to make up multi-rigs with bait screws and bottom baits. 42 years carping condensed down to almost zero terminal tackle. Now concentrate on putting the bait in the right spot.
Wish I’d known that back in the day..🤔
soak the file in vinegar clean it right up
Is It thrue, sometimes We all need revisit our bags
What great common sense, I started doing this late 23
The greatest video on YouTube. Thanks so much!!!!
Same as I fish Matthew, only take what I need, no good having a tackle box full of different stuff you will never use , all you're doing is making the tackle shop owner rich lol 👍
I've done this for years, Great advice Matt! I fish wild waters in the USA and am often walking miles through thick woods to get to my spots, I can't be carrying around pounds of unused equipment lol
Brilliant! I’m a minimalist and this confirms my approach
This is what I’ve started doing !
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I was forced into doing this by my angling buddy. But also; I was sick of being told my peg looked like a boot sale 😂 It's not easy to let go when for 30 years you've taken everything everywhere because you can't go home for something you've forgotten but that's when I learned better planning skills 😂 great video as usual Matthew 💙🎣☕
Great video, right on focus and incredible method to share. I take your simple, lean and well focused ideas as my guide when I am creating my tackle (as a fresh carper) dear Mathew. When I see my neighbourhood there are so many people giving up and selling their full last tech. tackle just because of this reason. People are focusing tackle, not the fish. And they uderstand carp fishing is not easy as they thought first. This was the most important quote at the end of the video. Focus, lean and confidince.
You're totally correct. I've gone up my own backside
Over the years, with rigs bait and tackle. Only to find it was none of the above, just wrong location including time of day, night, year and weather. Change ? be patient, one thing at a time, and don't get sucked into the lastest fad. Old-fashioned water craft.
What rigs and leads would you make up for fishing with a bait boat at Abbey Lakes in April, which has different depths and weed throughout? Or a silty syndicate dropping from a bait boat?
I take the same attitude when roving for chub or trotting on small rivers and streams. I still carry too much, but I try to carry just what I need. I was fed up of carrying a load of different size feeders and leads when I know I only need two or three sizes depending on the conditions.
The more you know ,the less you carry
Less is more…I started this journey 20 yrs ago ,getting involved in lightweight bushcraft and wild camping ,reinforced ,the only people who benefit are …..tackle manufacturers!
Ps…i use 3 rods ,so its 3 leads on ,3 spare …rest in car …i use a 40 litre rucksack ,no other luggage, all my bait ,food ,mini trangia unhooking mat goes in or on that..
Seat ,is a wearable Helinox chair one ,plus vibram feet..
Water carried by hand ,based on how many cuppas i have ,days 5 cuppas ,nights/ 24s,10 cuppas…spare water in car …
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I’ve gone through so much stuff to finally arrive at my final preferred hooklinks and hooks. Just a handful of items cover me for everything. Wasted so much money on things I’ll never use but happy to finally get where I am.
great video as always mr collins! I started doing this a couple of years ago & try & do it every couple of months now. I find it quite therapeutic 🙂
rig boards is where it really makes a difference. I found that I would "make do" with rigs that were ready tied as opposed to what I needed for the situation at the time. now i make sure I recycle / break down anything that isn't just right. wrt to hooks – I've been using a double sided hookbox for a couple of years now – blunt ones go in one side & the sharpened / new ones are on the other side. keeps it nice & simple & stops the points going over in the packet.
like the nash thing that you keep your tools on – will be getting one of them for my little box for sure!
This video certainly wont get you new sponsors Matty 😂😂😂
As always very nice presented. Every young carp angler needs to see this.
Just a suggestion you should make a premade starter kit like this and sell them I would have loved this when I started would have made my life so much easier
That's exactly what iv done now used to have a massive tackle box now have a small kodra one and a bag in the house 🏠 for makeing rigs nice compact rig board and I'm saveing easy 10kg the water proof bags like you have are great
What box is it you show in the end for bait and pellets?
I am trying this year to narrow my gear down – even though it seems thats its mainly my "non fishing gear" that takes up the space and Weight.
Started last year by removing 2,5 kg of leads from leadpouch 😁
to be honest, i like to tinker around while fishing, so rather have some stuff with me i can try new things out.
i really don´t see a problem with a tackle box, got the fox one with everything in it i need.
Problem i have or see is rather all the other stuff i have to take along, unhooking mat sling… whatever.
most of the time i leave my rod pod at home to safe space but on some lakes i can´t do without.
i´m gonna sort this out first
Love it, I take a similar approach. Sometimes less is more. Great video.
I had to scale down on how much gear I bring with me. I'm getting older, and every bit of unnecessary weight I can eliminate helps my back and my knees.
Scaled down yrs ago !! Carp fishing has become the “ See what a Lot I Got “ 😮😂
Great video as usual Matt 🙂
One quick question on the rig board, I noticed you threaded the mono through the foam to the other side of the board, is it just friction held or pinned anywhere? It seems you left them long so you can adjust length to suit?
Thinned mine right down. I only tie 2 types of rigs and the only thing I change is hook size if I feel it's needed. I've got the 17l fox bucket and insert and I can take a day or fews gear in that.
Rod bag, mat and bucket is all I need now for a day session.
Good morning from USA mate. Spot on advice. I have been through this a number of times, and found that due to my OCD obsessively confused decision making, I spent less time fishing, and more time tinkering with rigs, setups for leads, rods n reels, pods and banksticks, bait, etc. it got so bad that I got so mad I was about to stop fishing altogether and sell off everything. I changed mindsets to simply going camping and said to hell to with fishing, carrying all this gear, it is too much and most of it sits. So, after beating myself up, I called my fishing partner and asked him to come over and let’s go through all this, scale it down to two setups that I can “grab and go”! We did it. Taking a very similar approach as you have here, I broke it all down. It has been amazing and my confidence grew, my attitude changed seemingly overnight, and now headed into this new year and upcoming fishing season, I can literally grab my “Day setup” which consists of bait bucket with bait, my chair with pack that has my essential gear tacklebox with all essentials needed, rod bag that has banksticks, net, weigh gear, and I am out the door. I can literally kiss the Mrs., tell her I be home for dinner and be down the road in minutes. I am in the process of dialing in bait and making it so it is grab n go as well.
This type approach has saved my fishing!
Cheers!
It's overwhelming taking so much gear, definitely scaling down this year.
Yep I need to reduce the crap I take… currently looking at the esp quickdraw range
This is something I started last year, I was finding I wasn’t getting out due to having to much kit to carry. Defo worth reducing what need to take
We're did u get them foam right boards mate
Spot on that’s all you need
Excellent video, Matt. Together with my son I've spent at least 60 days at the bank last year. Small backpack, rods in one hand, landing net and unhooking mat in the other. Simple, mobile, effective.
I’m in the middle of sorting this all out now I’ve been looking for some sort of organiser board and I spotted that Nash one you have definitely gonna get one of them great idea great video
really well done Matthew