My basic trout kit fits in a double sided Plano plastic case, and my rod is a 5' cherry wood two piece with a micro light spin reel. I'd go with that setup but I'm also an avid fisherman.

 

For recreational sport fishing, rods are king. When you're surviving, hand lines will catch all the fish that you might need.

Video: testing different designs and then catching fish with them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rfW8h4CreA

Making the PVC pipe fishing kit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Olifyi1CY

 

i wouldnt consider myself knowledgable, but there is a stocked, manmade pond in my back yard probably close to 10 acres big so i know my way around a rod/reel and a lake. the ugly stick is advertised as unbreakable and weighs hardly anything, the reel is the size of a softball and my takle box is the size of a brick, which i would carry wih me regardless of carrying the pole or not. it seems we have the same idea and i think there is just no substitute for a genuine rod/reel.

btw, what do you think of the 'as seen on t.v.' Line Dancer?

 

The biggest fish I ever got in my life was with a 721 Remington in 270 Winchester.

A stick with line and a baited hooks will work. Those YoYo reel things are semiautomatic fishing.

I have a custom made spin/fly rod for my INCH. I think fly line holds up better than monofilament. I like spin casting with Mepps that I modified. The 1 and 2 size with 0 size Eagle Claw treble hooks sharpened.

 

my ugly stick can break into 2pieces, how do you pack the reel, i was thinking a small tupperware container just for protection.

I know about trot lines as well as, spring loaded traps that i can set along the bank.

soon i will be learning how to make a basket trap.

diverity and versatility is a godsend.

but somedays, sitting on a bank and just casting away might be a great moral booster.

 

Got 2 circa 1972 Garcia Mitchell 301s,and a Berkley Cherrywood ( my favorite)1 reel has 8lb test and the other has 6lb,I can switch back and forth...Goes where I go...Ugly Sticks are Hard to Beat,too...Like em for baitcastin...

 

Got a bcb fishing kit because it cost me $3 haven't tried it out yet.

 

I have a breakdown fly rod in my bag. Some fish will not go after a baited hook.

 

When I go fishing, I take a rod and reel. In my BoB and the survival kit in my truck, I have a plastic tube type fishing kit, simply because its compact, has no moving parts, and easily fits into any pocket on my pack. This is one question that really is personal preference, as even if your rod/reel broke, you could still use the line and other parts to catch fish in a survival situation, even if its just using the line around a smoot branch in the same fashion as a survival kit.

 

Zebco Dock Demon, two different reels for your fav.

 

I can pretty much fish with anything that will float plus a bit of line, a hook or something made into a hook and something to bait with.

Jug fishing is easy. Old plastic pop bottles with tops, line, a length of string to secure them together and to a tree, a hook and some bait.

Hand fishing is fun but without gloves, can be a bit tricky.

Rod / reel are cool but not always practical.

yoyo's are easy to carry, easy to set but do make noise when they are tripped. Depending on your situation, maybe not the best option.

Trot lines are more stealthy but still fairly easy for someone else to see and rob from.

Bow fishing works well in clearer water but remember to count for water refraction. Fishy is lower than you think it is.

Seine fishing is good if you have a partner. Nets are fairly easy to fold up and put away.

Fish traps are fun but need a bit of skill to make.

Basically, there is more than one way to catch a fish. ; )

 

I've got a collapsable spincast rig and little box with bobbers spltshot and hooks in it in the trunk bag with the lifeboat rats. Probably useless but it'll pass the time while watching the epirb battery die.

 

Trot lines, yo-yo's, or netting, sure. In a SHTF event, you probably will have other things that need attending to. Recreational fishing will not be one.

 

That's my take on it too. As well as animal traps, so as to save the time spent hunting. That allows you to spend more time doing other things that need done, without spending so much time trying to feed yourself.

 

I will pack my multi piece spin/fly rod and tackle.

I own trot lines and nets as well, but fishing is far too important to trust to set lines and nets.
Some days active fishing is the only method that works.

Same with hunting. I trapped fur using steel traps and snares for a decade.
I will still carry a rifle for active hunting instead of trusting to just steel traps and snares.

 

You can still hunt or fish even if you have nets and traps out. That's the good part. They're not the total solution. But they're a critical part of the entire setup. And if they're working, you can be gathering wild edibles or working back at camp.

 

recently i got a 4 piece st croix triumph travel rod. i had a 2 piece before, but it was still too long for my pack's side pocket and would snag in the bush, just as a single regular rod would. the 4 piece however is an excellent packable solution. its pretty stiff and it has the obvious limitations of being an assembled stick versus a 1 piece rod but its something. i also have a very extensive pocket survival fish kit (quart sized ziplock size) and a couple of yoyos of different styles (regular and "donut"). still looking for the lightest most backpackable reel though... then i think my kit will be practical to carry on my person

 

I would say it depends on where you live,
and how much time you want to devote..
up here we have a lot of small mountain stream's.
and a few large rivers (unsafe in a shtf in my book)
I personaly have 3 things,
a yoyo fishing spring, (grate as a snare too)
the basic fishing gear (low test line, small hooks and a few sinkers)
witch I use in a cut sappling.
and then some very thin netting,

use a old styal pole method to set yoyo.
and (for me dealing with mountain streams.)

and make a catcher out of the netting, and submerge it near the creak edge,
use a hand cast method close to shore (minnows well flock to it like flies)
and slowly bait them over the netting,
when ready quickly lift the net, and hey, 3 to 6 minnows!

the yoyo will work on larger fish... if the small ones don't nibble ur bait away..


this is just me, up in the mountains,

I like minnows.. no cleaning, just cook. and good to!

 

In an actual on foot away from home shtf situation a flat 1" x 18" latex strip from the first aid kit is all the fishing gear I would be carrying.

 

Okay, you're gonna have to tell me about this.

How do you use a latex tourniquet to fish with?

 

gill net; cast net; trot-line; limb-line; hand line with kite string winder, 10# & 50# braided spider line, and a small selection terminal tackle (Eagle Claw starter kit + some spinners). (I don't like yo-yos much. Most that I've seen are cheaply made and are not suitable for critical uses. And the good ones take up a lot of space. I'd rather have more other tackle than yo-yos. Plus, if caught out with them in most places before the PAW, you could be in big trouble, because, when the good ones work, they are very effective. Just not reliably enough to take up space.)

Don't see the point in carrying a pole in an emergency type kit. Rods & reels are fun, and can catch a lot of fish, in the right hands, at the right place, under the right circumstances, at the right time. But survival fishing needs every advantage to catch as many fish in as little time as possible with the least expenditure of time and energy. And the cost of the equipment usually enters into it, as well.

I'll stick with my kit and keep my Garcia rod and reel ready for sport fishing.

Just my opinion.

 

We have fresh, estuary and salt water at hand. Fishing is a very important part of our survival plan. As a result our INCH kit's fishing kit contains 3 gill nets, 2 seine nets, 2 cast nets, YoYos, pre-tied trot lines, assorted line in different weights, hooks, weights, etc. a few reliable jigs, dried worms, bait stick, frog gig heads, fishing arrow heads, 2 breakdown pole spears with several tip choices and extra bands, swim goggles and fins, dive lights and dive knives. We have 2 different weights of telescoping poles, one bait casting reel and 2 different weight spinning reels. We also carry rod repair parts and all of the misc gear like fillet knife, stringer line, etc. This fishing kit comes in around 17 pounds but it is a part of an INCH kit so don't attack me about weight.
In our GHBs we just carry a small survival fishing kits made from pvc pipe and I carry heavy braided line wrapped around a knife sheath because it has lots of uses and is nearly unbreakable.