Solo Slingin

[keakar]

Originally Posted by saute86

90% I mainly fresh water fish. I hate having to stop fishing when the person in the back gets hung every 3rd cast.

or banging stuff around in the boat and constantly complaining about gnats or nothing biting instead of just fishing and paying attention to whats going on.

it is nice to have a "good" fisherman with you who can help determine the patterns and style the fish want that day so both of you do better but most guys like that go fishing by themselves because of the reasons stated above lol.

I fish by myself about 90% of the time and always wear life jacket when the boat is moving, I make sure to tell "someone" where im going and roughly when I expect to return, I carry a cell phone at all times and make sure the person who knows my plans has the number. I think that is about all you can do except install a good long range vhf radio for calling for help but small boats like mine that isn't an option and hand held vhf radios are not worth buying due to very limited ranges.(they only work good at the store or when in town but not on the water)

[RichWentFishing504]

Originally Posted by keakar

I fish by myself about 90% of the time and always wear life jacket when the boat is moving, I make sure to tell "someone" where im going and roughly when I expect to return, I carry a cell phone at all times and make sure the person who knows my plans has the number. I think that is about all you can do except install a good long range vhf radio for calling for help but small boats like mine that isn't an option and hand held vhf radios are not worth buying due to very limited ranges.(they only work good at the store or when in town but not on the water)

Personal locator beacon.

Also Delorme makes a sat based text message service and gps combo called Inreach.