how long could you go......

[Tom Rust]

on a similar vein, when you lose a lure that isn't from a soft bait multi-pak, and it was catching fish, how soon do you (and how many) do you go out and get reinforcements? if a new color works for me, i cannot "not" go back to store and get several more of the new color, for fear its going to be discontinued soon. Or at least thats the lie i tell myself over and over......lol

[Micaiah Lindquist]

I need line now, but besides that I would be good for at least 5 years

[rboat]

I could probably go the rest of my life, but that monkey would get pretty upset.

[Kelvin]

Not very long.   Case in point I went out of my home this morning literally walked across the street to test a few lures in a canal that connects to a lake and within 20 minutes caught a peacock bass over 2 lbs, a hybrid sunshine bass (real good fighters) and a largie.   

 

Between year round tournaments, fun fishing, tourny practice, pond hopping and all the saltwater options within a 5 to 15 mile radius living in South FL has its immense advantages and its key drawbacks. 

 

Drawbacks include bait monkey constantly needs sacrifices.  Which morphs into the boat monkey.   The accounts are never going to be the same after that takes hold.   Too many attractive right here right now options which leads to a never ending cascade of gear for both freshwater and salt.   

 

Injuries never heal since there is no OFF season unless you are forced into it.  Sunscreen and bug repellent gets soaked into cars and clothes.  Wind burn faces, tanned neck and ears, casting elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome and farmers tans are inevitable.  Leader line is a recurring bill.  

 

Still wouldn't live anywhere else. 

 

 

 

 

[killobet]

Im only doing bank fishing. So, Im good for another 4 season. 

Dropshot, swimbait and senko.

[Bankc]

I try to keep my inventory levels low, so don't own a lot of backups.  But I could probably make it a year or two if I needed to.  Though, at the end of the second year I'd probably have to get really creative.  Also, I do remelt my old soft plastics, so I've can go longer than you'd think just by looking at those.  

[rgasr63]

I think I can go till next season. I just bought line this month and I really stocked up on terminal during COVID. 

[papajoe222]

On 3/23/2023 at 2:11 PM, crypt said:

realized I had enough gear etc. to not have to buy anything for at least a year or more.

Such a rookie statement.  I have enough gear to last me to well past my expiration date and I'm still buying.

As to your question, maybe two weeks during hard water season.  During fishing season.............. the local BPS has my credit card number on file and they just smile and hand me my bag of stuff and say see you soon.

[fishingram24]

Easily 2 or more years for everything except fluorocarbon line. I keep enough on hand to refill about a dozen reels at a time which I will do probably twice each year, more on the ones I use most. Have enough braid and mono for at least 2 years.  

[WIGuide]

That's quite a tricky question....If I wanted to fish how I like to, with my confidence baits I could make it through a season with what I currently have, maybe more. If I had to substitute other baits I have in their place I could probably go somewhere close to 5?

[Munkin]

Besides line I could supply 100 people on here for at least 5 years.

 

Luremaking I just ordered 30k custom Ned head hooks.

 

Allen

[Jrob78]

I would run out of line and maybe hooks and weights after a few years but besides those things I could probably go the rest of my life. I would run out of certain things but I would have plenty of other things to take their place.

[Johnbt]

I'm 72 and I may have enough stuff for the rest of my life if I stop buying. That's not likely. 

 

"Rubbermaid Commercial Products Brute Large 20-Gallons (80-Quart) Gray " is full of new spinnerbaits, just to give an example. I only buy at sale prices. My tackle bags have another 30 or so.

[Bluebasser86]

Probably 10-20 years if I'm trying to make it last. I've got tens of thousands of yards of line, pegs full of hooks and terminal tackle, thousands of jig hooks and hundreds of pounds of lead to be melted and poured, along with multiple storage bins full of unused bags of plastic baits. 

[desmobob]

SEVERAL years.  Easy.  

[papajoe222]

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On 3/28/2023 at 8:32 PM, Munkin said:

Besides line I could supply 100 people on here for at least 5 years.

 

Luremaking I just ordered 30k custom Ned head hooks.

 

Allen

You're cheating. He said buying tackle,not tackle you make.   Jeez, I wish I'd gotten into tackle making. It's a heck of a lot cheaper that the hobby I picked for the off season. 

[CM-fisher]

On 3/23/2023 at 2:13 PM, A-Jay said:

3

A-Jay

3 days or 3 hours?  

[A-Jay]

11 minutes ago, MN_Bassin24 said:

3 days or 3 hours?  

And it only took a week ~

A-Jay

[Mbirdsley]

I could literally probably fish the entire year with out buying anything else.  Only issue maybe certain specialty things.  But, I’d just have to find another way to do it.  
 

I just wouldn’t be as versatile but, I could do it.  I have enough stuff. 

[Wildbillb]

I honestly need to stop.  I am trying to reorganize and use what I have.  I just need to fish more.  I have gotten bad and only fish about 50 days a year.  Most of those are 3-4 day at  time excursions.   

 

I need to get back to the times where I fished every day for months on end.  Not sure what happened.    Probably lack of people to fish with.