What to bring

Hatch Magazine put up a post on packing for your saltwater trip. These sorts of lists are always worth reading.

Got me thinking about some of the odd and ends I bring.

Socks. Cheap, white, mass-produced socks. In my opinion, that’s the best thing to wear with your wading boots. Forget the neoprene booties. The cheap white socks will do a good job of protecting your feet from the grit and sand. When done for the day, just toss them out.

Desitin. More commonly known as a butt cream for you baby, Desitin is a good thing to have if you end up getting a wading rash. If you have tried to walk a flat with one of those, it sucks. This can help address the issue.

Trip Saver.

Damn good to have.

A spinning rod. That’s right. A frigging spinning rod. I’ll tell you… I’ve had some days just wrenched from the trash-heap by having a spinning rod in the boat with a big, massive pencil popper for cudas. When you get tired of getting your ass handed to you for 5 or 6 hours in a row, hooking and landing a cuda on a spinning rig is just pure fun.

Everything else I bring is pretty standard.

  • Quick dry pants
  • Long sleeved shirts
  • Hat
  • Sun mask
  • Sun gloves
  • Sun Screen
  • 2 8wts
  • 1 10wt
  • A few hundred flies
  • First aid kit
  • Extras Kit with superglue and rod tips and kevlar thread, etc.
  • Wading boots
  • Dry Bag
  • Hip gear bag
  • Cameras
  • Solar panel for emergency charging
  • Spools and spools of extra mono and fluoro and wire. Be ready for whatever comes at ya
  • Sunglasses
  • Good pair of pliers

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  1. Here! Here! An excellent list. Only differences for me are that 1.) I bag the hip pack and travel light when wading – nippers, tipper and an extra leader in one shirt pocket, a small box of flies in the other. If long trek, a bottle of water in my pants pocket. And 2.) one thing I always take is a box of about 100 of those foil-packed lens wipes, leaving those I don’t use with my guide.

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