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fishing tackle insurance when travelling


mii11x

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As the title suggests, those of you that do long trips, do you have any tackle insurance when travelling?  

My mates and I go on atleast one trip a year to southern NSW and take waaaay too much fishing gear with us.  Last trip, I alone took down roughly $12k worth of gear(rods, reels, terminal tackle, lures - plastics and jigheads etc etc) and would hate to lose any of it.  Its always secure in either a locked cabin or houseboat, or in locked toolboxes on my ute and in stormwater tubes we made for the rods when driving.  When we use my boat a majority always stays in the cabin though.  I know my boat insurance covers a certain amount of gear but it would probably only cover one of my rod/reel combos really.

Not sure if you can buy insurance for travelling around the state, I only know of international travel insurance that covers things like personal belongings.

Any help or advice is appreciated

Thanks

Mick

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As Berleyguts already mentioned  -there is a domestic travel insurance.  There might be some fine print like min 200km travel from home etc.  Usually for the expensive items and/or additional cover, the insurer would want a list with items value.

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I just flew to Rocky for Barra fishing with Qantas and purchased a Rod Tube from a shop. Arrived in Rocky and found that the end of the rod tube was smashed at the opening and the material was torn at the opening as impact was so severe. They must have speared it into an edge. Could only have been caused by rough as guts attitude. 

Lucky my rods are ok but def makes you think about things going wrong. I will call Qantas but no doubt will be fobbed off. 

Might travel Virgin next time and see if they go better. Will be going back as the Fitzroy is a great fishery as Nets were banned 2 years ago. 

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If you have home content insurance check to see if they have non disclosed personal affects cover away from residence.  This is extra cost but cheeper than a separate policy.  Ron 

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