Stripping Basket

[Conative]

Am interested to know how important it will be to have a stripping basket. New to shore/surf fishing, any help is great.

Thanks

[Bob Parsons]

Here's an area a novice can get a feel for what they need while keeping the costs down.

Stripping basket is curtesy of RubberMaid at the local wally worlds with a couple holes drilled through and secured by a bungee cord.

Most useful when wadding or in a boat when the wind blows it on to the the smallest prejections that can catch your line. Of if you standing on a grassy bank that catches the line.

Modification to improve basket can come later.

[Quicksilver]

I used to use one all the time. Now I never do. They are a neccessity though if you fish from a rock jetty, or a rocky area with barnacles.

[flyslinger]

i fished for the first time this year saturday. remembered to put everything in the canoe but my basket. i have a real hard time fishing without it. if your wading in even the slightest current as you strip your line it gets swept away. making for many more false casts. i started using one last year & won't leave home without it. even on a boat it keeps your line in order. it's amazing how much stuff your line will find if you just drop it on the deck.



dan

[rockfisherman]

IMHO, It's pretty darn important. As Bob said, even you just get a rubbermaid basket and a bungee cord, get one. As Dan said, while wading, the currents will take the line and you will never be able to shoot line and make a long cast. On a jetty or rock, the line will find something to catch on, and again you can't shoot. As mentioned, even in a boat they are a help. Remember that you are casting about 30 feet of line, and shooting the rest. A shooting basket is the easiest way to add 20 feet to your cast.

I have the old Orvis plastic basket and a mesh foldable one from Cortland that I like to use at night...and it is more comfortabe.

[jared]

all reasonable suggestions....but i wouldn't drill any holes in the tub...you'll find that if you are deep wading, it's better to have the tub float on the water than get filled up.

my .02 cents


--j

[David Churbuck]

No holes. Used to drill em in my rubbermaid baskets and they would flood whenever I did any deep wading.

Phil Koenig at Manhattan Custom Tackle turned me onto a mini-basket a couple years ago. Also rubbermaid, just a smaller rectangular box -- about the size of an ammo box -- laced a wader belt through it, glue gunned some golf tees to the bottom -- and perfect, use it all the time and it is considerably less bulky than an Orvis or dish tub, useful when I'm moving around the boat.

dcc

[Mal Greene]

In my humble opinion if you don't use a stripping basket you are wasting valuable fishing time. Not using a basket means you spend half your fishing time untangling your fly line, especially if you're using a sinking line.And as stated before a basket will enable you to cast considerably father. Nothing sucks more than to see a nice fish and not being able to cast to it because your line is caught on something.

Mal