SFR What You Can Take Through TSA
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Sorta fishing-related
JimTravers¤£a!!Travers
Steelhead
I just tell em no!!! They try and TAKE from me i just say NO. PERIOD!!! I came all the way from ELLENSBURG you aint gonna turn me around!!! Im getting thru with whatever on me!!! That's the way it's gonna be.
One thing you gotta be careful of. Having a deployment bag given to you by an 18C (Special Forces engineer sergeant) that you use for a check in bag. Then find out they find bomb residue and delay your bag in Seattle when you are heading to Bozeman. So all your fishing stuff, which you picked through to be legato even in checked, gets held a day. So your whole first day is down the drain.
Don't ask me how I know.
Don't ask me how I know.
It’s exactly what you think it is. And she seemed pretty proud of them. NYC women are confident people.
Waiting for departure at SeaTac right now, I always carry on my rod, reel, fly box, nipper, leaders without any problems. Did have to check in a rod tube once on the flight home from Cabos, I think because it was a metal tube and of certain length.
I always use fabric lined tubes now just to be sure.
I always use fabric lined tubes now just to be sure.
Just after 9/11 I was coming back to Seattle from Wichita on a small commercial plane that boarded on the tarmac. They’d damn near stripsearched me, shoes, cameras scrutinized, lenses looked through, etc. Bag, hands and clothes swabbed and tested.
I got onto the plane, sat down, and about 30 seconds later a gaggle of teenagers with rifles, 180 rounds in their packs, sidearms, etc, came up the steps double-time and sat down all around me. That was it, full flight. Couldn’t help but laugh.
ifsteve
Steelhead
I used to carry on all that I could. I stopped doing that a number of years ago.
1. I have never had anything stolen from checked bags.
2. Nobody I know has ever had anything stolen from a checked bag.
3. I do know guys who have had flies confiscated at check in.
Just not that big a risk and not worth the hassle.
1. I have never had anything stolen from checked bags.
2. Nobody I know has ever had anything stolen from a checked bag.
3. I do know guys who have had flies confiscated at check in.
Just not that big a risk and not worth the hassle.
I have had checked bags not arrive until the final day of an 8 day trip. I carry on enough to salvage such an event. I still had a great trip despite the inconvenience of missing most of my gear. It would have been a disaster without having the essentials with me.
ifsteve
Steelhead
Well surely it does happen. Hear about it now and then. But these days if you travel out of the US you can't carry on much gear. For example, Argentina doesn't allow any fishing gear to be carried on. None.
What we do these days is to make sure that each guy checks enough gear that in the event some ones bag doesn't show they have enough gear to get him fishing. Now if you are on a solo trip that doesn't work to well....lol. And anymore most places have enough "lodge gear" or guys in camp that can get you an outfit in an emergency. Not ideal but still gets you on the water.
I have flown on two trips where my checked luggage didn't make it to my destination...trip was fine due to me having my rods & reels with me, and one change of clothes & rain jacket...
So MacGuyver and/or MacGruber have this guy, Hamish McDougal and his pitchfork, but also varied knitting needles, guitar strings, very sharp pencils, "women's power tools" and possibly some flies, fly tying gear, and flyrods + the tubes the came in, floating>sinking fly lines and a variety of spare clothing to take on all forms of aerial trouble...
Any way you slice it you want Hamish McDougal and the uncorked pitch fork on your team....plus those Wichita teens with the side arms, rifles and ammo
"I've got a plan, but, and it's a big but, we're gonna need 40hp Mercury Jet Drive shaft...."
"Well, would you believe me if I told you there's one stashed below, in checked luggage...."
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It doesn't make sense does it..?
My wife is also allowed to carry 12" + wooden knitting needles on the plane, but I cannot carry pliers.....give me a break. I have run the whole gambit and scenarios traveling it is frustrating to the say the least who you get and where. The only place I had a problem with hooks is going to Saskatchewan for Pike. No dice even though the airline website stated it was ok. I do understand the fly line thing, but it seems as though if the reel were stripped, that would be ok.
I wish the TSA/ government/ airlines would come to some kind of agreement on this and make it consistent instead of getting Barney Fife and wondering what their interpretation is and whether or not they are having a bad day.
Banned user
Steelhead
I think I'm very lucky. I've traveled all over the world, lived all over the world, in fact, and during this time, likely 500 flights, never lost a piece of luggage. I hope I don't jinx myself; I'm traveling to Vietnam this month. No fishing, though.
I was in a plane crash in the late '70's in Alaska and walked away from it, banged up but intact. That was nature's way of telling me to "Stay out of airplanes!" I listened.
I agree it's very frustrating for travellers, but evil in our world exploits complacency and consistency.
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Two of us were on a trip to Greenland, before it became a fishing destination. United lost both our bags, and broke a schedule 40 pipe rod tube and almost all of the rods that were inside it. I was saved by having a minimal amount of stuff in my carry on. My buddy, who was traveling in shorts and sandals, was not so happy!
Back in the day as a Texas Instruments Field Engineer I spent a lot of time in the pre-911 world flying around the NW CONUS and Alaska. There wasn't a lot of remote diagnostic technology yet so I had to carry replacement parts for everything that might be a cause for their known problem(s), as well as high fail and PM items to prevent future failures they hadn't experienced yet. I packed light when it came to personal luggage but could need two or three cases of parts and tools. And, I might get assigned to other calls "nearby" (possibly hundreds of miles away) that came in while after I was en route. Back then shipping my gear via Air Cargo "counter to counter" was more reliable, easier (after getting my rental car), and could even be cheaper than checked baggage. Does anyone use Air Cargo nowadays?
Barney's unprecdictability doesn't have a great track record.I agree it's very frustrating for travellers, but evil in our world exploits complacency and consistency.
Barney's unpredictability does play a part in the "keep 'em guessing" - "measures / countermeasures" dance.
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