Starting Up

[DeathsPlayground]

Hello, I am new to the forum and would like to say that this forum has helped me a ton already. I'm starting up fresh after a few years of not being able to fish.

 

 

Now I know that many of the threads have information that helps with this but I was wondering what are key items for starting  a fresh tackle box.

 

 

Any suggestions or lists of favorites is much appreciated!

[HoosierHawgs]

Beetle Spin.

[kcdinkerz]

cheap route would be hook, weights, and worms

[Catt]

Plastics, weights, & hooks

[F14A-B]

Most folks have a favorite style of fishing, e.g. Crankbait, Texas rig soft plastic worm, spinnerbait

Depending on what excites you or motivates you more. That would be a start.. Then of course you must consider the water you fish,e.g. Open water impoundments, farm pond, river systems, creeks.

That should further allow you a more realistic ideal of what will be usable to you... Then get you a few baits & enjoy!

[DocNsanE]

Yeah I'd say the best bang for buck is soft plastics, weights and hooks. You can cover so many different scenarios with just a few baits and some terminal tackle.

 

as a started pack, I'd say get some senkos (or yum dingers), some caffeine shad or keitech swing impact fat (better option), some creature/craw imitations like a rage craw, some offset worm hooks or EWG (3/0 & 4/0), some kind of wacky rig hook (I personally prefer a 1/0 or 2/0 octopus hooks for this but many different types of hooks will work), some bulletweights (1/8 to 3/4 should do it) and you'Ve already got a pretty great starting point.

 

You can add some dedicated top waters later (like frogs, cigar style like a spook, buzzbait), spinner baits, jigs, and crankbaits to that later.

 

Of course, as Alonerankin2 mentioned, it depends a lot on what kind of fishing you like to do, so this is just my personal opinion.

[Josh Crye]

if I were building my box/tackle over again, and actually I might after not fishing heavily for a couple years, id start with a nice, big tackle bag.  I started with a plastic box, filled it up and went with a bigger box, filled that up and went with a bag bigger than the box, and so on and so forth...  now I got a nice big tackle bag that I can load down so much I cant hardly carry it!

 

as another stated, need to keep in mind where and what your fishing for.  start with hooks, sinkers, and plastic worms.  im really like zoom super flukes and finesse worms at the moment.  then id add jigs and trailers.  then add crank baits, then add top water.  the list goes on and on!  the you can add for different species of fish!

[kickerfish1]

For cost savings buy used from various forums and auction sites not to mention retailers sales. If you are starting with next to nothing this will be the most cost effective way unless money isn't an issue.

Probably going to need a few rod and reel outfits, hooks, weights, plastics, jigs, hardbaits, spinnerbaits, etc.

[Delaware Valley Tackle]

A pack each of 4" & 5" Yum Dinger worms,  Yamamoto Fat Ikas & ribbon tail worms  all in green pumpkin, 03 & 04 EWG worm hooks, 1/8 & 1/4 oz worm weights some BB size shot. If these don't get some bites look for new water. Read up here and add to your box as your budget, confidence and curiosity suggest. 

[bigbill]

1. Spooks, green, chartruese, white, black.

2. Torpedo prop, frog, brown yellow

3. Poppers rebel Popr

4. Bomber model A size 05, Apple craw red, brown craw, fire craw, green craw.

5. Spinnerbaits, Mann's classic 1/4oz. White, Mann's classic chartruse 1/4oz. Mister twister 4" split double tail trailer with trailer hook.

6. Carolina rig, 24" leader, senkos and brushogs.

7. Split shot rig, 6" black creme worm.

8. Rapala f7 original minnow. Blue or black.

[jitterbug127]

If I went out today to start my box over I'd pick up June bug trick worms, watermelon seed Senko, and green pumpkin tubes for plastics. Hard plastics pop r in bass, spook in bone, wiggle wart, and rapala j9 split minnow. Red eye sexy shad. A white and chartreuse spinner. A black and blue jig. I could catch something anywhere with those few baits