the current season (4) is so messed up that if they don't go back to the original format, there wont be any season 5. So I set up my gear list under the original conditions (they give you a 20x20 and 10x10 tarp) I'd take 2 lbs of gorp and 3 lbs of pemmican, one of Chief Aj's slingbows with the 6 arrows (4 of them having 4-tineed fishing heads) I'd take 25 TREBLE hooks and the 300 yds of fishline (most of it being as heavy duty as any available, for use in non fishing cordage needs).
I'd take a PARACORD gillnet and a hammock made of same. Then I could unravel them into their 3000 ft of cord,, remove the outer sheathing, access the 7 individual strands, and weave 100 yds of 6 ft wide, 3" mesh netting. I can weave about 200 sq ft per day, so each day, I can hang that much as a gillnet. I can use this netting to shut off a small cove and then use a dip net, seine, bow and fishing arrows, or spear to harvest every fish in the cove. I could cordon them into a small area to make this easy, while keeping them alive, not having to waste my time boiling off seawater for salt and smoking their flesh. I could weave in, every other mesh, local shoots, vines, or roots, making the mesh 1.5', too.
I'd take a 5 qt skillet and lid, A modified Crunch multitool, with a Silky saw blade to be held in the vise-grip. I'd take either a Cold Steel shovel or a Kukri, (jury's still out on that, but I"m leaning towards the shovel, modified with a REAL saw edge and the option of an on-site made longer handle.) I'd take a wool and oilcloth sleeping bag, so that I could dry it out with hot rocks. Space under the tarp is very limited, and the racks around the fire are likely to be full of wool clothing being dried. It rains almost constantly on Vancouver Island in late fall, with bad windstorms being likely. I'd take a big roll of duct tape, because you need a watercraft and a chunk of tarp can be quickly made into a pontoon that makes the raft man-portable. Getting your craft in out of harm's way is a great advantage.
I'd take a PARACORD gillnet and a hammock made of same. Then I could unravel them into their 3000 ft of cord,, remove the outer sheathing, access the 7 individual strands, and weave 100 yds of 6 ft wide, 3" mesh netting. I can weave about 200 sq ft per day, so each day, I can hang that much as a gillnet. I can use this netting to shut off a small cove and then use a dip net, seine, bow and fishing arrows, or spear to harvest every fish in the cove. I could cordon them into a small area to make this easy, while keeping them alive, not having to waste my time boiling off seawater for salt and smoking their flesh. I could weave in, every other mesh, local shoots, vines, or roots, making the mesh 1.5', too.
I'd take a 5 qt skillet and lid, A modified Crunch multitool, with a Silky saw blade to be held in the vise-grip. I'd take either a Cold Steel shovel or a Kukri, (jury's still out on that, but I"m leaning towards the shovel, modified with a REAL saw edge and the option of an on-site made longer handle.) I'd take a wool and oilcloth sleeping bag, so that I could dry it out with hot rocks. Space under the tarp is very limited, and the racks around the fire are likely to be full of wool clothing being dried. It rains almost constantly on Vancouver Island in late fall, with bad windstorms being likely. I'd take a big roll of duct tape, because you need a watercraft and a chunk of tarp can be quickly made into a pontoon that makes the raft man-portable. Getting your craft in out of harm's way is a great advantage.
