Tilleggsutstyr: nyttige småting for fiske

The basic equipment of a modern fisherman consists mostly of fishing tackle, special or more or less suitable clothes/shoes, backpack/bag with baits/additives, thermos, knife/multitool, first aid kit and a couple or three other useful things that help in the process of fishing. Usually this couple or two additional equipment includes a kortsang, a retriever with clippers for cutting lines, a lipgrip or compact scales with a tape measure to measure the catch, here who has how and who needs what more. About most of all these elements of fishing equipment has long been written a lot, including the author of these lines. Therefore, in this article I will try to tell about the usefulness of other useful things that can be very useful and help in some situations on fishing, but not all of them are needed for every day, so you should buy them only those who have a need for all this.

Suction cup

And I will start, perhaps, with quite common in fishing, such as a sucker. Those who fish from a boat, for sure, most of them know that without a good net to drag a decent fish of trophy size into the boat is not the easiest thing to do, especially if you are in the boat alone. Therefore, the topic of the big suckers is quite disclosed, but the topic of their compact counterparts for fishing on foot as just the same still requires clarification. The thing is that I still constantly meet fishermen on the rivers, who catch quite decent-sized perch, chub, yazi or grayling, perform at their delivery to the shore all sorts of intricate dances and manipulations of hands, as a result of which the fish in half of cases simply escapes or gets such damage that there is no need to talk about any principle of “Catch – let go”.

And all you had to do was to buy a small sucker of the fly fishing type, which hangs behind your back or on your side for the time being, not interfering with walking or fishing. But in the most necessary moment, being at hand, allows you to easily and effortlessly pick up a fish with it and bring it to the shore for a photo shoot almost unharmed. For me it is very strange that many modern fishermen in our enlightened time forget or do not even know about such useful things that can be bought for any money, from a few hundred rubles for plastic and metal and up to several thousand for especially beautiful wooden works of art.

A small nakhlystovyy podsachek does not interfere with walking

Snowshoes

What else amazes me some colleagues is their attitude to their own feet and health in general. In winter time I often observe such a picture, on which quite decently equipped and packed fishermen make their way to the places of cherished fishing almost knee-deep in snow or move on thin ice among thaws. But long ago progressive mankind invented and perfected such useful things for moving on snow and ice as hunting skis and snowshoes.

And if everyone in our country knows about skis, then snowshoes still represent some incomprehensible overseas pampering for many of our fellow citizens. Although in fact all those who have tried real branded correct snowshoes, and not brittle nameless parodies of them, they will definitely no longer crawl through the snow or ice to the river or lake, puffing and blowing steam like a steam engine. Of course, snowshoes can’t replace skis in loose and deep snow, but they can easily and quickly get you where you need to go in dense, compacted snow and ice. And when walking on dangerous places with thawing and on the slippery icy coastal edge of the support area and spikes will not let you fall through. If after the transition to the river, through the forest or field it turned out that on the water body you can walk on the ice just in boots, snowshoes can be easily and quickly attached to the backpack, which can not be done with skis.

Good for dense, packed snow

Quick-release gaiters

Here it is worth mentioning such a useful little thing in the equipment as quick-release gaiters. These are such strips of waterproof fabric, which have minimal weight and in the folded state take up a minimum of space in the pocket of a backpack or jacket. But thanks to Velcro fasteners they can be instantly put on, wrapping your legs, on top of trekking boots or boots and forcing areas with high wet grass or deep snow, so as not to wet your pants and socks. When needed, the gaiters are also instantly removable and stow away in their own pocket on your backpack or in your jacket.

A handy addition for walking in the snow

Folding staff

But for forcing small forest rivers with the help of waders or swamp boots, in order to keep your body in a fast stream or not to slip on wet stones, you should have another useful device. This is a folding metal staff, which is easily and simply carried in its pouch on the belt, not interfering in the hike and fishing, but when crossing the river in the ford instantly for a couple of seconds unfolds, turning into a reliable third support with a comfortable grip neoprene handle. With a staff like this, you always have a crossing support at hand and just a long metal stick with a sharp steel tip to scare off stray dogs. Besides, you don’t need to chop down unfortunate trees on the bank of a forest stream to make a makeshift staff before crossing.

A reliable support when crossing forest rivers

Accessories for making a fire

As for trees, you can be completely independent of their availability for making a fire in any fishing trip, if you take with you a can of gas and a gas burner or even a small stove. With the help of these simple devices you can quickly and safely cook hot food and drinks anywhere, even on the ice of a lake, or in a boat, or in a hunting hut, without any firewood and wasting time searching for and preparing it.

With such a stove you can quickly and safely cook a hot meal

However, if you still need firewood, for example, for a night fire or on a trip to fishing forest lakes and rivers you have to overcome various difficult areas, where you need to somehow get across streams and ditches, that is, to build bridges from logs, it does not hurt to have a compact lightweight hacksaw, folding or with a case and pistol grip. This simple thing will help to save a lot of effort and time in building any structures from the trunks of cut trees, as well as in the preparation of firewood on a camping trip.

A light hacksaw will help you save time when cutting firewood on a camping trip

Insect and stray dog sprays

In summer we are often strongly annoyed at fishing different bloodsucking insects, so we are tired of tolerating them, we take different repellents to treat our skin and clothes with them, in order to scare away these insatiable creatures. You can use spray cans, and you can use more compact vials of the military type, they are lighter and take up very little space, take it easy.

Light and compact bottle

If the task is to scare away not only mosquitoes and gadflies, but also stray dogs or even bears, it is worth hanging on your belt holster with a device that can shoot noise charges, signal rockets and stop the attackers poisonous pepper spray from five steps.

A device that can be used to scare off stray dogs or even bears

Car gadgets

For anglers traveling by car, there are many different useful things. But one interesting gadget is probably worth telling about, since not everyone is aware of such devices. It can come in handy in such a simple situation, when you came, for example, on the weekend at any base to fish on the ice, and before leaving suddenly it turns out that the battery of your car does not want to help you get away. That’s when you take out of the glove compartment a small box with a compact device such as Trend Vision Start Flash, or something similar, giving “light” from it to your car, quietly leave without any other people’s help. In addition, this device also serves as a powerful Power Bank for various gadgets, and even a flashlight.

Car accessories can also be no less important

In order not to get lost in search of a new for yourself forest river or lake and not to forget the way to them through forests, fields and mountains, it is worth getting yourself the most common navigator. Despite the development and improvement of smartphones, their weak batteries and navigation, depending on the work of telecom operators, still does not make them reliable navigation devices in the wilderness. And the usual GPS-navigator with a reserve of several ordinary “finger” batteries will not let you get lost anywhere and will accurately remember all the interesting fish places and tracks, so that you could come back any day and unmistakably find your favorite places and cool points.

The navigator will not let you get lost

I have chosen ten useful items of equipment, each of which can be useful to any of the fellow anglers on their very different fishing path, and some will not be useful at all, because we are all different and fishing is also very different.

Forfatter: Bob Nudd er en ekspertfisker med over 20 års erfaring og vinner av mange konkurranser.