Yes, survival has no place for junk or making do when you can have the thing that works on you. Knowing how to make do is carried in your head, so leave those tabs at home.
A “survival kit” is supposed to contain everything you would want in the worst situation possible…. Why does everyone take it to mean “only stuff you find on the floor of your truck”? If I’m literally trying to survive with it, I want a fishing kit with 15 beast hooks and 30# mono line so I can set for catfish. I want rigging for a long, solid trot line, I want to be able to be fishing passively 24/7 while I use a legit hand line to fish with spinners and jigs. I want a frog gig. I’m not going to sit on the bank and screw around with can tabs and little scrap pieces of cork tied to a freaking radio antenna. The perfect gear for a true survival situation may not fit into an altoids tin, but if you actually might need it, you will carry it no matter how big it is. I feel sorry for the guy who ends up is a survival situation and all he has is a bunch of junk in an altoids tin. When I’m backcountry hunting, fishing, backpacking, MTB, whatever, I have a survival pack on my belt 24/7 that’s about 1L and even that is too small for all the stuff I would really want to have IF I needed to open it. Guess what, it doesn’t even contain a fishing kit, it’s for surviving a true SHTF situation, not playing survivor out in the woods behind my house. If I’m driving MILES back into the hoots, then backpacking another 10 miles from the trailhead, then walking another mile or two along the bank from camp, I’m truly on my own, I would NEVER trust my life to anything but the best gear I can get. If the bank gives way under me and suddenly I’m freezing wet with a broken leg, going into shock, fishing is not my survival priority. I can go two weeks without food (I know because I’ve done it), with proper planning and a TRUE survival kit, I would be home long before I ever needed to go fishing. Forget “survival fishing”, if you’re really trying to SURVIVE take a GPS beacon and a tourniquet. *choices are key*
That’s great man, thanks for the video, I want to build one now, not really a fisherman but I can put food on the table. That’s a hobby I like doing, great idea
I saw Altoids today, $3.79 +tax just to get a tin. I use plain silver tins Altoid size and next size up. The tins are great for your own labels. I have two fishing kits on my desk here that I have been updating this week. Most of my contents are in small zip lock bags. Walmart has lots of small lures and flys perfect for this kit. I started with a PSK (Personal Survival Kit) aka tin kit, but found the space limiting so I also created a fishing tin, water tin, fire tin, archery tin, etc. that expands on what is in the PSK. Sure, you can put everything in one bag (nothing wrong with that) or you can put a tin in each of your four-five pocket coat, one in each cargo pockets, etc., to spread out the weight. Personally, If hiking I'll have a full pack and a decent survival kit for when away from camp; the tins are just cool fun and useful for light day hikes.
Nice kit but I really don’t understand why you would put in can tabs over more hooks. I would pick a good quality hook over one made from a soda can any day. Soda can hooks are meant for when you don’t have any hooks and you have to make one from trash. If you can prepare It would be my last choice.
👍👍 great tin. But no small hooks ? #2 are good for catfish or bass but not crappies. I have a Black Widow Crappie Rod that doubles as a walking stick. As far as a rod small eye rings on a stick. Lucky holding for now., fred is going away from us. grace is unknow but maybe texas and the new one is ????
Knife to remove scales? I assume you carry one..why can’t you just put regular small hooks in the tin and not mess with pop tops and paper clips? That telescopic pole will not work unless you plan on catching minnows..
Really poorly thought out (or maybe just never used) Why would you include stuff to MAKE hooks when you could just include 50 hooks in the same space? The point of a “survival kit” is to stack the deck in your favor as much as humanly possible… not to add additional challenges to an already FUBAR situation. You can easily buy a ton of legitimate fishing tackle to fill an altoids tin; you don’t have to carry a bunch of trash…. My “survival” fishing kit doesn’t look any different than my normal fishing kit… just smaller; it would be better named my “back up” fishing kit. Side note: soft plastics will melt and get greasy all over the inside of that tin (especially modern commercial brands containing attractant) put them in a plastic bag. Also your cute little antenna “fishing rod” is a joke, no flex, it will bend and snap just trying to “cast” the lure (and if you did manage to hook into a fish you’re guaranteed to lose it AND your tackle) This whole thing would be actually usable if you built it around a hand line (hobo reel), which is incidentally REALLY easy to improvise in the woods. This is a “junk drawer fishing challenge”, not a survival kit.
