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Quality Camping Gear For Fishing

While many fishing trips only last a day, and are over by sunset, some fishers like to experience the whole outdoor lifestyle, going out for a weekend or longer. In this article, we will look at selecting quality fishing and camping gear for these combined fishing and camping trips.

Buying Quality Fishing/Camping Gear: Knives

Cabela, one of the world's largest retailers of quality fishing and camping gear has a website featuring several buyers guides to help you select the right product. One of these buyers guides features a detailed breakdown of the construction of sporting knives.

Types of knife that are useful to fishermen include the following:-

Fillet knives: these are thin and flexible and measure between 6 and 9 inches long. They are useful for removing a fish's meat from the bones in one piece.

Fishing shears: used for scaling fish and cutting hooks.

Bait knives: these have a 4-5 inch blade with a serrated edge for cutting through bone.

Chunking knives: These have a 9 inch serrated blade for cutting chunks of meat from large fish such as sharks.

Buying Quality Fishing/Camping Gear: Camping Stoves

If you are planning to eat today's catch straight away, you will need a camping stove to cook it on. The chief consideration when buying a camping stove should be weight, the lighter the better. Extremely lightweight camping stoves are now available, running on a variety of fuels: propane, alcohol, butane, diesel, kerosene and even jet fuel. Your best bet is to buy a multi-fuel burner that can run on a variety of different fuels, as there is no telling what will be available once you leave civilization.

Buying Quality Fishing/Camping Gear: Ice Fishing Huts

Of course no camping trip would be complete without a tent, but since this article is geared towards fishing, we will now look at a specific kind of tent, the ice fishing hut.

Ice fishing is a popular activity in colder parts of North America and Europe involving cutting holes in the ice with an ice auger (drill) and catching coldwater fish such as sturgeon and perch through the holes. Specialist shelters are available for this activity that can also double as tents. They should be thick to offer protection against the elements, but lightweight so that the ice can support their weight. Fire retardant properties are important in case a heater gets knocked over by accident.

Ice fishing huts come in a variety of sizes, from one-person to family size. If you are using your ice fishing hut as a tent on a camping trip, you should buy one larger than your needs, to ensure that there is room for your sleeping bag et al.

 

 

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