Able Scouts

SUGGESTED EQUIPMENT LIST

For safety reasons, it is a good idea to purchase commercially available equipment when it is available rather than using something homemade.  There are many devices available for purchase as adaptive fishing equipment even though some of it was marketed for other purposes. This list isn’t intended to limit your creativity or prevent you from providing equipment with additional capability.

• Eye protection for people not already wearing sunglasses, or prescription glasses
• A few wide-brim hats for further eye protection
• A few personal flotation devices (PFDs) in a range of sizes for managing the risk of falling into the water.
• Left-handed casting reels, or reels that can be swapped from right-hand to left-hand handles
• One or two fixed line “cane pole” fishing rods
• Five-foot lengths of ½ inch braided marine rope in different colors for knot tying
• Velcro straps for tying the handle of a fishing rod to the forearm.

• Leash for dropped or inadvertently thrown fishing poles, or an attachable float to allow a rod to be retrieved.

• Trailer chock blocks to use with wheelchairs to back-up the parking brakes on sloping/tilting surfaces (two sets)

• Bicycle Trainer Front Wheel Riser Blocks for lifting front of wheelchair (need at least two)

• Plastic Felling Wedges (made for tree cutting) for propping up front wheels of chairs (need about a dozen for stacking)

• Sections of I-Joist lumber for temporary access ramps or bridging soft ground

• One handed body harness rod holder 

• Magnetic Tippet Threader