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The Tackle System

The Tackle System

Too much tackle is a problem. Too many choices, too little system. The Tackle System strips the bag back to exactly what earns its place — floats, lines, hooks, elastics, and rod fishing terminal tackle — and nothing that doesn't.

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10 Jun 2026
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Author: Christene Jayne Backhouse
Category: Ebook
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Most tackle bags aren't designed. They accumulate — one float at a time, one recommendation at a time, one on-offer spool of line at a time — until the bag is full of individually reasonable decisions that are collectively a mess.

The Tackle System is the book that changes that.

Built around a single, uncompromising principle — every item earns its place, or it doesn't make the bag — this is a complete, coherent inventory for commercial fishery fishing. Seven float types covering every situation from information gathering to margin fishing. Five hook patterns spanning pole and rod work. Four elastic grades. A rationalised line system with a single seasonal variation. And a full rod fishing chapter covering the Preston inline system, four interchangeable heads, and the extender lines that make cage feeder fishing work properly.

Nothing is here because it might come in handy. Everything is here because it does a specific job that nothing else in the bag does better.

The result is a tackle bag that is smaller, a mind that is clearer, and fishing that — as a direct consequence of both — is better.