The starting kit
Replace the placeholder rows in the table with your actual gear and real weights from a kitchen scale. Keep the structure: item, weight, and the one-line argument for why it's carried. The weights are the whole point — they're what nobody else publishes, and they're what makes this page worth linking to.
This is the bag that gets on the plane to Baja on 1 November. It is not a recommendation, and it is deliberately not called a best-of. It's a starting position — the baseline every later revision gets measured against, published in full so the changes mean something.
The rule for everything in here is the same: it has to justify its weight after six miles of soft sand. Anything that can't is a candidate for getting cut, and several things on this list probably will be.
The whole bag
| Item | Weight | Why it's carried |
|---|---|---|
| Pack | — g | — |
| Rod | — g | — |
| Reel | — g | — |
| Terminal tackle | — g | — |
| Lures | — g | — |
| Leader | — g | — |
| Pliers / cutters | — g | — |
| Sun protection | — g | — |
| Water | — g | — |
| Total | — g |
What I expect to get wrong
Writing this down before the trip is the useful part, because it's checkable afterwards. The honest guesses: the lure selection is too broad, the water is too little for a full day on open sand, and at least one item in here gets carried for two weeks without being used once.
What happens to this list
It gets revised after every leg, with the reasoning published each time. Baja first, then Fiji, Thailand and the Maldives. The version that survives all four is the one worth having, and it won't look much like this one.