Terry McLaurin finally has his tackle box set up exactly the way he wants it. The minnow hard baits are all the way to the right along with the soft plastic swimbaits, just above the spinners. The split shot weights are in the middle and the scissors are in a long compartment at the bottom.
Learning to live without a bobber, he says, has been revelatory.
On this summer afternoon at the start of Washington’s pre-training camp COVID testing period, McLaurin is in the process of getting his entire setup shipped to him in Virginia—all the rods and extraneous fishing minutiae that his girlfriend told him he was buying too much of.