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                                    Savage Gear Roadrunner Gear Bag Reviewed

My Savage Gear Roadrunner Gear Bag Review on Planet Sea Fishing - http://www.planetseafishing.com/reviews/read/savage-gear-roadrunner-gear-bag-reviewed

Now I love my fishing, but it is compulsory that my fishing bag is equipped enough so I carry a wide range of lures, enough room to be able to carry a camera to photograph my catches, comfort when wearing the bag; and easy operate so I can find exactly what I want in a hurry! When I came across the Savage Gear Roadrunner Gear Bag I found just what I was looking for! This bag is not too big, nether is it to small! The bag is able to hold the amount of fishing tackle that I want to carry with me while also harboring my camera! 

    When it comes down to comfort with this bag it ticks all the boxes. This bag has been designed like a sling bag with a difference. That difference is the bag is strapped to you and will not fall of! This is fantastic for the lure angler as they are always on the move searching high and low for there next hook up. The way in which the bag is designed with a compartment at he front and two at the back allows the bag to equally distribute the weight, relieving the strain on the back and shoulders! I have used this bag when fishing 3 different types of terrain. LRF in my local harbor in Weymouth. I would usually spend ether a whole day fishing hire or spend the evening. Since I was fishing light the bag weighed next to nothing so there was no problem there. Another terrain that I fish with this bag is walking the coasts such as Portland Bill, East side and West side of Portland, Swanage, and Kimmeridge. When fishing these areas I would be fishing the style of HRF. By the name of that style of fishing I would be carrying a lot more heavier gear than when LRF. I would also be walking at least 5 – 10 miles a day. This is made up by walking to the fishing ground and then scavenging it all day for fish.

To do this I would have to carry a wide variation of tackle to be able to keep changing my set up and lure to find out what the fish are feeding on. This bag coped no problem with this issue as it has two compartments at the back of the bag.    

Now in the mesh compartment I was able to fit one Savage Gear big lure box, two small Imax boxes, Leader line and stillroom for more! Also this mesh compartment is the compartment that I like to house all my spare tackle; lures, weights, jig heads, hooks etc.  There was also enough room to fit more tackle if needed!

I used the material compartment to store my fishing reel and camera gear.

I managed to fit one Shimano Exage and my GoPro with its mounts. There was also a pouch at the back of this compartment that you could store more fishing tackle. I chose to put packets of ISOME and packets of soft plastic in this pouch. Also if I decided to carry my Gopro in my pocket with no mounts or not even take a camera at all then I could fit in a spare reel to accompany a spare rod, which you will reed about later in this review. I can safely say that in rainy conditions both the material and mesh compartments are pretty waterproof. I went out in the rain to test this and found that my tackle remained mostly dry. But t be 100% sure that your equipment stays dry use plastic tackle boxes to put your equipment into.

Now another interesting thing that I found in this little pouch was a splash proof cover for your phone. This can come in very handy when for example you are down rock hopping at Portland bill or kimmeridge and that stray wave comes over and swamps you drenching all your gear.

I have to admit that when trying to put his bag on for the fist time was a bit of a straggle because I could not find the strap to tighten the bag around my right shoulder. After searching for a while I found a strap inside the material compartment.

I think as this is one of the most fundamental straps and being so important because it straps and secures the bag to you, this strap should be more visible instead of being hidden away inside the bag where you put all your equipment. The other two straps that this bag has are one around each side of the bag to strap it to your waste. There is one main one that straps to your waste that is connected to the strap that is for adjusting the onto your shoulders. And then there is the smaller strap, which acts like a safety strap to lock the bag to you so it does not fall off.

One of my favorite things about this bag is that it has a rod holder at the back. Now when I go fishing at places like Portland Bill I mostly use a plugging rod as I am fishing for wrasse but, when this method is proving ineffective I like to be able to carry my LRF rod with me to be able to save myself from a blank by dropping some LRF gear down the side of the rocks. The material compartment that I mentioned before has enough room to house two reels so I can also take my LRF one. The other great thing about the way that this rod holder is et up is that most lure bags have there spare rod holder positioned on the bag in such a way that it is parallel with the floor or in other words to the side. This makes it hard when maneuvering yourself around rocky terrain as your rod might smack into a rock and break it. But this no longer happens as the rod holder on this bag is facing upwards to the sky allowing it to sit on your back and not get hit by passing rocks. If you decide to take your second rood you don’t have to carry your primary one. This rod holder can capacitate two rods so you don’t have to carry anything. I think that this is one of the best features of this bag because it adds it its divers way of allowing the angler to have a countless choice of how they want to fish with out worrying of running out of space to do this.  

Now going on to the flip side of the bag there is one more compartment that is located at the front witch sits on your chest. I think that this compartment id fantastic because it allows the angler to house the lures and tackle that they use most in one place that is easily accessible.

This compartment has a sleeve on the inside on the back parallel for storing items like packets of soft plastics. Then it has the main compartment, which opens up to fit in the things you use most. I found when I went fishing this compartment was slightly restricted on what I could fit into it. For example when I was LRF I could only fit my ISOME box in there and a split shot mix pack. That was all I could fit in. I was rather disappointed with this variable as I wanted to be able to put jig heads and hooks into this space incase I lost some. I think that this is one of the beigest problem of this bag is that the front compartment is too small. To improve this I think they should consider making this compartment slightly bigger curving around the side of the body to allow the angler to house more that a ISOME box and some split shot. 

But on the upside to this compartment there was one huge positive side. On the front of the compartment there is a Velcro strip and attached to this is a piece of material that allows the angler to hook lures and hooks into that they use most or are going to use. This is fantastic because you don’t have to reach around to get more lures out of the back of the bag. The piece of material is capable of holding 9 lures depending on size. The only down side to this is that when fitting lures to this material the space inside the compartment is once again dramatically reduced. The other areas that this compartment had were a lanyard to hold your scissors or pliers and then a pouch to put them in and holes for pens.

Just up from this compartment the bag has its own dedicated phone compartment with earphone inlets. This is a good idea but this compartment is not very waterproof, nether is the compartment that I talked about before. On a scale of one to ten on how waterproof these two compartments are I would rank them a four. I personally was able to fit a Iphone 4 and 5 into this compartment haply.

Just to round of I have to say it again that tis bag is fantastic. It has its pushes and pulls but it sticks to the hypothesis that is to carry your fishing gear. The only major way of changing this bag for me is to change the Metal zips too plastic because metal erodes in salt water. Other than that this is a all round good bag and well worth the money!!!