They are a nice addition for a larger fishing kit. I carry them in two sizes, plus a couple of nails and two small jingle bells (with cardboard silencers) in my larger one. But I also know that if I had to strip the kit down, those three things would be the first ones out.

If you are going to carry eye hooks for a possible survival fishing rod, you would be better purchasing or salvaging some old fishing rod eyes off an old rod. Then again, when we were young, a longish, slender tree branch and some several 10's of feet of fishing line along with some old washers for sinkers, allowed us to catch fish with no problem.

Nothing to do with this thread, but it brought a tear to my eye. In his younger days my son, now a 6"3 military cop, would bring me spare electrical parts that he scavenged. They were for 'the robot' that he desperately wanted us to build. Time passed, and the robot never materialized. I threw out that box a few years ago, and with it went a lot of memories and the ambitions of a 9 year old boy.

My 8 year old is working on the same project, Bryd. I'm tempted to do a clean sweep sometimes but then think of the memories we're making, smile and leave it be.

My six year old daughter has been collecting for her project for a couple years now. She wants us to build an automatic bandaid machine! Apparently i need one. She has the design firmly in mind but I haven't been able to figure it out enough to start assembly.

To keep loosely on topic. My daughters Hiking stick now has some line, a small hook and two threaded eyelets stashed in the rubber base so we are prepared to fish while hiking. Stashing everything was her idea, I threw in the eyelet since here hiking stick has hole for it in the top already (we hung it up to dry and varnish).

-Eric

If your child is a computer geek, don't throw out that old computer. Years ago I built a computer out of junk and it worked, for a while.

Jeanette Isabelle

yes good thought done the same