Tackle Box Essentials for Your Boat

Fishing is an excellent pastime all year round that gets you outside into the fresh air with friends or family in your trusty boat. If you’re new to fishing from a boat, you may be wondering what you’ll need to carry with you. Your tackle box should be well-stocked with all the items you’ll need to enjoy your time on the water and get some big catches. Below are the top tackle box essentials that you’ll want to make sure you’re carrying on all your fishing trips.

First-Aid Kit

Taking care of yourself while you’re out on the water is important. That’s why you’ll want to keep a waterproofed first-aid kit bag filled with the items you and your passengers might need in a pinch. Here are our suggestions:

• Bandages
• Waterproof medical tape
• Tweezers
• Nail clippers
• Sunscreen
• Aloe vera
• Painkillers
• Antacids
• Bug spray
• Calamine lotion
• Antibiotic cream
• Nausea medication

Lures, Bobbers, and Sinkers

You’ll always find a few of each of these items in any fisher’s tackle box. They’re pretty standard things to have on a fishing trip, and it’s important to have them in your boat.

Lures

If you’re not using live bait, then you need lures to draw in your fish. Carry minnow imitations, spinners, top-water lures, and spoons. While you might have a favorite type of lure, it’s good to have some variety so you can swap them out if you want to catch a different type of fish.

Bobbers

You’ve undoubtedly seen these little plastic red-and-white orbs floating on a fisher’s line before. There are many styles of bobbers, but that’s the most traditional style. Bobbers attach to your line and float on the surface. When they dip down into the water, that’s when you know a fish is biting. You can use a cork with a stick through it or a slip bobber that moves up and down the line instead, too.

Sinkers

These small weights help to draw your hook down deeper into the water since it’s too light to sink on its own. Traditionally, sinkers were made from lead, but this metal’s toxicity has led to its use being phased out. Nowadays, you’ll find sinkers made from bismuth, steel, brass or tungsten. Carry a variety of sinkers on your boat since they can slip off your hook and be lost to the bottom of the lake pretty easily.

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