As someone who wants to expand his interest in recreational fishing as a pastime, and a lifelong hobby & recreational activity I am in need of advice of how to avoid having too much equipment that you don't use it.

I understand that a variety of equipment is needed for fishing besides the fishing rod, lures & bait. You need a wide variety of various lures to attract certain fish, additional fishing line, pliers for cutting line, pliers for getting a hook out of your catches mouth if its stuck etc.

I just don't want to get to the point of having so much I end up not using all of the equipment I buy. I want to keep everything in one tackle box (I like the look of those Plano made ones) have have a fishing rod for light, medium, heavy and sea fishing (the long rotes you stick on the beach and wait for a catch), and a fly fishing rod. I want to make sure I have a use for each and use each rod ocaccsionally.

What do you think and what would your advice be?

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by HypridElastiAccord27

Gentlemen and most of the rest of us, (the general fishing population) have created our own downfall. (please don't go off on me if you are the victim like myself rather than the problem) The reason fishing has been legally and totally shut down is because of the photos of crowds at the ramps and shoulder to shoulder bank/pier fishing along popular fishing areas seen on the internet and news. If you remember, it all started as volunteer safe distance. That was ignored and the opposite often took place along with jokes and arrogant comments like "no one is going to tell me I can't fish" at the boat ramps and on the internet. We did not police our own, so the government had to take action. Those of you who can still fish (I am in Washington and can not)need to speak out (from a distance) when you see violations of the safe distance rule, or at the least don't join the crowd. Otherwise you too will also loss your right to fish. Don't let ignorant arrogant and selfish individuals who could care less about the safety of themselves and others, especially the elder make you also hang up your rod and reel. As the saying goes, you can not fix stupid, but you can refrain from supporting stupid. REMEMBER Take a kid fishing (but not right now)

wild idea moment. took a small hook,8 or 10 IDK. crimped a bb shot worked part of a pipe cleaner around, did somemore wraps ,then painted it. .did some dental floss to collar, why . just something to do.

I did take it our yesterday morning and hooked 2, lost the first one at the shore, but got this one, Im sure most find this boring, but it was fun. I used some vice grips for a vice lol but I ordered a tying vice. Im not really a fly fisherman, but Im gonna tie some stuff I can through on my 2# test

Hi all. I'm new to the group so here's my first question. Hopefully there's some good advice here. I recently switched all 12 of my reels to braided line. I mostly use spinning reels casting for speckled trout, reds and flounder in the NC sounds. Since switching I have been plagued with knots that occur when casting. So, I'm spending a lot of valuable fishing time untangling the knots. Sometimes I actually have to cut the line. I never had this issue with mono so not sure if I made the right decision to switch. Is there any good advice you guys/gals can give to prevent this problem?