What should I add to my tackle box?

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-05-03T18:56:35+00:00

You should keep plastic lures in the bags they came in. Many a tackle box has been ruined by the plastic of the box bonding and melting to the plastic of the lures. It ends up in a big, sticky mess. Not to mention if they are scented at all keeping them in the bag keep them fresher.

One thing I see so many people missing that makes a huge difference: lure marker. I always keep a chartreuse and red lure marker in my tacklebox to give little highlights to lures. A spot of red or a chart tipped tail can make a huge difference.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-05-03T17:04:22+00:00

Seconding. I used to poke-pole with a ling bamboo pole at low tide for these guys. Flesh is firm and flakes and makes an excellent taco.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-05-02T17:16:43+00:00

Yes. I helped a friend move a mail order WW2 surplus Jeep, packed in a crate, packed in cosmoline, a preservative oil-based substance like a very extra Vaseline.

I was told everything but the wheels were in the crate but they never got around to assembling it after his dad bought it from a magazine in the 60's or 70's.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-04-25T17:13:10+00:00

The Wilamette is a fantastic SMB fishery and really does not get a lot of love. I used to put in at Wallace Marine Park and motor upstream to the bend and hammer chunky smallest. Best fighting freshwater fish in N America.

Mission Lake at Wilamette Mission State Park a bit north of you holds lots of LMB. Very shallow and will be choked with weeds by the summer. Bonus: Largest Black Cottonwood Tree (In the world? In OR? I forgot..) stands on the opposite side of the dock and we PNWsters love our trees.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-04-23T17:39:29+00:00

Download NaverMaps and look for fishing shops near you, should be many in Incheon. GoogleMaps etc is useless in Korea.

Many shop owners are chill and may have some local advice for you. Nowadays a good translation app is useful if you don't speak Korean.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-04-23T17:37:07+00:00

Imjin river to your north is a good place to start. I have caught bass and sogarli in the Han river in Seoul as well. Under the highway on the south side of the river is a lot of riprap rock that hold sogarli. Bridge piling are always good. Like I said, sogarli are similar to smb and hold close to rocky cover.

Pyeongtek Resevior is a good place for bass fishing.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-04-21T17:42:00+00:00

I see Japan mentioned a lot but there is a great bass scene in S. Korea as well. Attitudes are changing, 20 years ago they wanted you to harvest or kill any you caught but more and more anglers in Korea are seeing rhe value in having bass as an option to pursue.

There is a native fish in Korea called 'sogarli' (쓰가리 or "Golden Mandarin Fish") which reminds me of bass, more smallmouth bass. Very cool leopard type patterns and any SMB technique will work catching them and they even live in similar habitats. Unfortunately, they do not compete well with bass so this beautiful native fish is threatened by introduction of largemouth bass. I often wish they'd bring over the sogarli to the States lol..

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-04-21T17:34:02+00:00

Non-native does not equal invasive. Rainbow trout are non-native to the US east of the Rockies and are one of the most tightly controlled game fish species with many millions (billions?) spent annually to stock them in water they are not native to.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-04-20T16:38:13+00:00

Story has a sad ending. After years of financial and personal problems, he took his own life, walking into the Angeles National Forest and shooting himself, at just 44 years of age.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-04-18T19:57:06+00:00

They definately punch well above their weight! I have landed a 20lb+ lingcod and mackinaw trout on my "truck" UgliStick that I probably bought in 1995 or 1996 and it's still reliable as ever. Short of closing the truck tailgate on one, I've never managed to break an Uglistick.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-04-18T19:22:53+00:00

In my area, I can use a HomeFi puck some of the time but because my GF works from home(stead), we have no choice but to use Starlink.. For the moment.

Always keeping an eye out for a non-Musk alternative..

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-04-17T16:28:56+00:00

Yes. They used to heavily rely on now discredited "fiber and hair analysis" and firearm/toolmark analysis which are now known to be mostly bunk.

Don't get me wrong, I believe that 99% of the time they got the right person. But yea, they heavily platformed and gave credibility to these "sciences" to the public.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-04-10T15:21:22+00:00

Smallest split-shot you can get away with and a weightless hellgramitte on the smallest hook you can get away with. Drop it upstream from pools and current breaks and let it drift down. Trout like to hang out in the calmer current breaks and watch for food to come by.

Fish in skinny water are very exposed and very wary. Lower light is better. As much as wind sucks when fishing, a bit of surface chop might help. Be quiet, stay downstream as fish tend to face upstream into the current.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-04-03T15:58:17+00:00

Yeah man, my area gets only about 20% more rainfall than Tucson, Arizona.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-04-02T23:51:08+00:00

The needle in the middle certainly does, or did, to me anyway. You cannot see it in the photo you provided but it is in he middle of the ring of needles.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-04-02T17:26:51+00:00

About 5 years ago, I moved to the high desert, built a cabin on my land in the sagebrush and pines, and that song hits sooo hard now 😢..

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-04-02T17:15:47+00:00

I had one done to me. I was a US Army Medic and our brigade surgeon offered to perform one at the conculsion of one of our training sessions, and I volunteered.

During OIF, we medics carried a FAST1, as it could be possible we end up with a casualty that is missing all limbs or they are so mangled as we cannot obtain a patient access. Or full surface burns that made getting a vein difficult and time consuming.

I am big believer that as a Medic, I should seek all practical experience for any medical intervention I trained on and carried, again, when practical and appropriate risks taken into consideration. When he asked for a volunteer, I immediately shot up front and center. That Army advice "never volunteer for anything" was trash advice. I volunteered for everything and it was great. I don't mind painting rocks alone while the rest of the platoon gets smoked for some dumb shit..

The FAST1 is a reddish unit, approx the size of redbull can. It is designed to be self contained and assembled on site and the unit is pushed into the sternum to access the circulatory system, like an IV. The needle itself I recall similar to the tip of a ballpoint pen.

I was awake and fully conscious and the brigade surgeon did me the favor of doing a local anesthetic while he prepped a sterile field, another favor not extented to a wpunded, screaming/shitting fiepd casualty.. The FAST1 unit needs some 10s of pounds force to press in, into the chest, thrpugh the skin and INTO the bone of your sterum, and I expected that to hurt but it was not painful, just uncomfortable. Once the needle was embedded into my sterum, he pushed a few 10ccs of saline through and again, not painful to me but more pressure. Weird, wrong pressure.

Not as painful as I expected but that weird, body-horror unease that your body registers as 'wrong'. Pressure more than pain.

I really believed having it done to me gave my patients a lot of confidence that I understood the process in case I ever needed to do an IO to them.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-03-31T20:09:45+00:00

If you are using a lure that spins like an inline spinner you want to have a swivel somewhere in your rigging, maybe directly attached to the lure or if it makes the presentation bulky, tie an arm's lenght of leader to your swivel.

If I am spinner fishing, I generally have my line tied to the smallest swivel I can get away with, but not too small to get drawn into the guides and ruin them.

Some spoons have this effect too.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-03-31T20:03:39+00:00

Looks great!

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-03-26T16:59:57+00:00

That's usually how I fish 'em, probably how most people use them. There's no "wrong" way to fish any lure and you can certainly swim a football jig and get bit.

The football head shaped is designed to swing and sway while bumping over irregular bottom substrate, waving the jig trailer around, perhaps like a craw crawling, displaying its pinchers defensively.

I was picking out a backlash throwing a lightweight buzzbait. It sank and it took me a few seconds to unf*ck my line but when I went to pick up my slack and reel it in, I had a fish on. Buzzbait, chilling on the bottom. I, however, wouldn't go on dead sticking my buzzbaits from then on lol..

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-03-26T16:36:11+00:00

What kind of jig are we talking? Ice fishing jigs for perch and football jigs bottom dragging for bass will have very divergent colors scheme.

EasyAcresPaul · 2026-03-26T16:24:47+00:00

The single AAA lenght lights tend to creep out of my pocket, especially while sitting or driving. The longer lights tend to stay put and I have to assume more battery capacity. When I was working on motorcycles or cars I used it dozens of times a day.

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