Extending the Life 
of your equipment by Jen Edgar

Extending the Life 
of your equipment
by Jen Edgar

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Story & Photos

BY JEN EDGAR

of your equipment

T

hink about the amount of money you put

into fishing, whether or not you fish tour-

naments. Yeah, scary! You spend good

money to get the best products, so you should put just as much of an effort into maintaining

those products and gear. By extending the life of

your tackle, your dollar goes that much farther and

the same goes for your equipment such as reels,

rods, boat, electronics.

Now more than ever (thanks to social networking

sites and fishing forums), it is easy to sell used

equipment. Those sales can turn into money to buy

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more new (or new to you) fishing goodies. In order to get a decent offer on your used gear, you want to make sure its been well taken care of. That starts the first day you take possession of the item.

THE LIFE OF YOUR TACKLE

Most plastics are well used up and torn after a fish or two, there are a couple tricks (maybe even some that I don’t know of) that you might find helpful to extend the life of a single plastic worm. (See video for a few HOW-TO’s)

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