How do you carry your gear?

[ofuros]

For a short session....I use a 2 litre hydro pack,there's just enough room for pkt of scroggin(trail mix,dried fruit & nuts) baby gorrilla grip tripod,extra pkt of leaders tippet material & Led headlamp.


Flies,nips,floatant,sinkant,camera..etc, fit into cargo pants pockets,easily accessable without taking the pack off.

If its an isolated area I'm exploring or If there's chance I might get caught out in flash flood...etc, I'll take a slightly larger day pack,with sleeping bag,3/4 lenth air mattress & bivvy bag.


Cheers,
Ofuros

[Trucha]

My vest is over 20 years old. I replaced the zippers with some heavy duty zippers, replaced the net D-Ring (the net got caught on my mountain bike when I came head over heels down a slope), removed the wool patch. I try to wash the vest once a year.

[Dottiesdad]

I'll toss in another vote for the Orvis sling pack. Got one last year late in the season and it seems to be a very good solution for me.

Vest was too much for small water and too hot for summer and early fall fishing.

The fanny pack route did not work out for me. Stuff kept getting wet when I had to go deep to get upstream. And then there was having to deal with junk around my waste. Seemed to get all caught up i the brush too.

The sling pack keeps things high and dry and out of the way. Enough room for some water and a sandwich which is nice.

Best,

Bob

[rayfound]

Well, Dealsonthefly.com made me an offer I couldn't refuse. $39.99 for a William Joseph "Escape" Pack - looking back, I would be happy with this pack at $79.99.

Its a nice backpack, with chest packs... but I love the modular design. I can take the chest packs off of the shoulder straps, and put them on the hip belt or any other Vertical or horizontal strap... for light stream use, I will just put one of them on a wading belt, or a water-bottle holster fanny pack I have. I love that I never have to load/unload gear... just pop them on where I want them.

Its build construction is superb.

Here I am on the Owens last week... an average sized brown that fell to a BWO dry tossed on my 00wt.




Chest packs loaded on hip belt (more streamlined than on shoulder straps).

[john]

Military surplus combat medic field pack. 3 large zippered pockets with one open top pocket. Shoulder strap. Simple and holds the entire contents of my vest.

[troutrageous1]

Well, Dealsonthefly.com made me an offer I couldn't refuse. $39.99 for a William Joseph "Escape" Pack - looking back, I would be happy with this pack at $79.99.

I almost bit on that a few weeks ago...and then again when they re-ran it over the past weekend. Based on your review, should it come up again, I think I'm in.

[adam]

Military surplus combat medic field pack. 3 large zippered pockets with one open top pocket. Shoulder strap. Simple and holds the entire contents of my vest.

One of these?

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[john]

Adam...that's it. Works well for my purposes.

[adam]

It is called an M3 and that is me in Korea in the mid 80's.

[john]

Adam,

I found my M3 at a surplus store years ago after you described carrying a claymore bag (if memory serves correct). Couldn't find one like you described but found the M3. Been carrying it ever since.