Pre-Planning a Fishing Day
As this year winds down to some cold winter days, I thought I would try to address some off-season tactics to help you have successful days when the pre-spawn hits us next year. One of the first things I do when the season turns down is clean out and organize my tackle in my boat. Thanks to some creative fishing engineering today's new boats are equipped with tackle systems to help with the task. In fact my new Stratos Evolution has the biggest and best center boat organizing system I have ever seen.
The key to me is first of all a clean tackle system area. If it's clean your tackle doesn't deteriorate from moister and all is left to do is to have your tackle set up so you can use it and get to it quickly. As I spend many days on the water it is really easy to get your tackle spread from one box to another, and this can be a big waste of time.
With the many sizes and types of plastic boxes out there it easy to organize your baits, I separate tackle by bait, size and depth of travel. In other words, let's take crank baits there are many sizes and manufacturers of crank baits. I have a separate box for the size of the bait, organized and separated by manufacturer, and by the depth they travel down in the water. This allows me to do a couple of things, the first being changing my tackle out to meet the conditions I expect during the day of fishing. If the fish are shallow I can trade out my deeper box type baits for shallow one. If I need a wide wobble vs. a tight wobble or noisy baits, I can also change out to meet the needs for that day as manufacturers have distinct differences, and can allow you to meet many different types of daily needs.
Lastly, when your tackle is organized, it allows you the ability to assess your past, present and daily needs for the up-coming fishing day. Soft plastics are no different for me, except I organize them into plastic bags instead of boxes and label them so I can quickly make decisions. Making changes to the tackle needed in your boat everyday is simple and easy to do, just put a little thought into it.
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Captain Mike Gerry