Fishing gear Part II
Another visit from Vaughanie and another selection of treasures for the fishing box. It will take several sittings to get through all this, so I'll just pick up on a couple of the items from tonight's delivery. The most obvious item is the bright yellow rod holder with plastic tubing protecting all and sundry from the pointy bits. These are a custom-made Vaughan invention with assistance from Frank on the welding. Courtesy of my generous neighbour I'm now the proud owner of two of these beauties.
The little Canning Estuary tackle box is the first one provided by Vaughanie, primarily intended for bream fishing up and down the Canning River. The box is accompanied by a copy of the guide to Dodging Blowies Whilst Landbased Fishing 'Round Perth by Ian J. Vaughan (June 2007).
This beautifully written and hand illustrated sheaf of 14 photocopied pages details a range of techniques for fishing around Perth with a particular focus on the use of various types of floats. The guide also includes pages dealing with various rigs, essential knots, float strategies, how make and use berley, baits and hook placement, a lavish hand drawn fishing map of the upper Canning River, guides to filleting bream and cleaning squid and a large illustration dealing with the thorny issue of hook removal.
Each item in the little tackle box has been selected or made from scratch for premium quality and fitness for purpose. The following items are included:
- Mustad 9555 (B) hooks sizes 4 and 6
- Tear drop 8 gram sinkers
- Spool of 8lb 0.22mm Maxima Perfexion line
- Braid scissors
- Size 5 black rolling barrel swivels
- 8mm pearl nylon beads
The sinkers are all handcrafted by Vaughanie with stainless steel wire loops to ensure they run smoothly.
The Mustad hooks come in hand labelled film canisters and are packed in rice to keep the hooks dry and in top condition.
Watch out for Fishing gear Part III where I'll look in the Herring and Garfish box.