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focus so you can tie a knot or thread a bait needle. It is even more frustrating when you helplessly sit there and watch your buddies catch fish after fish. Or worse still, having to suck up your pride and ask someone to tie a hook or lure onto your line because you can’t see it properly. If you don’t wear prescription eye lenses, or have had
the luxury of corrective laser eye surgery, my tip to you is go to the nearest drug store and pick up a cheap pair of reading glasses and put them in your tackle box. In fact, they are so cheap these days that I have a pair in each of my tackle boxes just in case, Lord forbid that my prescription glasses go overboard. Believe me, it just may be the best $2 you have ever spent.
Tip Number Five: Prepare for the Occasion When you’re on water, the weather can change quickly.
As they say, it’s always easier to take something off than it is to put something on you don’t have. Always have a jacket or fleece on hand. Always carry a rain coat with you, even on those sunny days. For some reason, rain always seems to find you even when it is not in the forecast. And, although each of our boats has a few storage compartments, for some reason none of them is impervious to water in the midst of a torrential down pour. I know this from experience.
When you’re boating, get and use a five-gallon pail
with a water-tight lid in which you can store extra clothing, including gloves, a hat, socks, sweater or jacket, sensitive electronics and some toilet paper. More importantly, make sure it’s is on board each time you leave port. In fact, I store some food rations such as canned
sardines and mussels, a couple of small chocolate bars and anything else that can last an entire fishing and boating season. You never know when they might come in handy in an emergency situation. Wondering where you can find a pail? Mine originally contained five gallons of chardonnay grape juice!
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