Jig Storage

[Ol JohnnyBoy]

How do you guys store your jigs, especially after fishing with them. I've received some extremely nice ones from many members here through different swaps as well as some I've tied myself. Problem is I hate just throwing them in with the others. I'd like to keep them organized some kinda way according to color/pattern/weight/ etc.

Any ideas or suggestions?

[smoothlures]

Fly tying boxes where you stick them in the foam. They look really nice if you put a few of each color together and keep it organized. If I make 1/2 dozen or more of one color at a time they get their own spot in a plastic Plano box.

[Jubs]

This is something I came up with a month or so ago after getting fed up with tangled up jigs and getting hooked in the finger trying to get the one I wanted out of a small compartment of a storage box.

I take pipe insulation foam (1/2" pipe size) and I cut it in half and it fits almost perfect in the trays of the storage tackle boxes, this new off brand box is a bit loose but in my Plano boxes they fit snug and don't move around.
If I cut new ones for these boxes and they fit the full length they would be fine I just haven't taken the time to do it.

For installation I just put them into the foam with the hook and push in the jig eye into foam to hold them extra snug. I put one of the new rust inhibitor separators in from my Plano box to help with any extra but I don't know if just a little separator is going to make a difference with the rust inhibitor agent in there or not but luckily I live in a fairly dry heat area and try to let the jigs dry before they go back in the box.

[LedHed]

Great idea Jubs

The Cabela's nub boxes work well and they aren't that expensive.


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[grubfarmer67]

This is something I came up with a month or so ago after getting fed up with tangled up jigs and getting hooked in the finger trying to get the one I wanted out of a small compartment of a storage box.

I take pipe insulation foam (1/2" pipe size) and I cut it in half and it fits almost perfect in the trays of the storage tackle boxes, this new off brand box is a bit loose but in my Plano boxes they fit snug and don't move around.
If I cut new ones for these boxes and they fit the full length they would be fine I just haven't taken the time to do it.



For installation I just put them into the foam with the hook and push in the jig eye into foam to hold them extra snug. I put one of the new rust inhibitor separators in from my Plano box to help with any extra but I don't know if just a little separator is going to make a difference with the rust inhibitor agent in there or not but luckily I live in a fairly dry heat area and try to let the jigs dry before they go back in the box.

VERY NICE IDEA BUD"!GONNA LOOK INTO THIS THIS WEEKEND"IF I CAN BRING MYSELF AWAY FROM TYING NOW THAT I JUST LANDED A MOTHER LOAD OF #4,6,10 SICKLES"he"he"YEAH"!!!:D
"...NOW IF ONLY A FISH COULD SPEAK HUH? "EAT YA BOX MAM???he"he"WHAD SHE SAY"???

[skiptomylu]

Dang guys, if I was to do all mine like that I would need a ton of boxes. I have mine just in the regular plastic boxes and separate them as much as possible by color. I have one for 1/8 & 1/4 with hackle tails and one with marabou. Then I have tow more like that for 1/16 and 1/32 with several smaller boxes with some in them. Then I have 2 boxes of Roadrunners and I mean all of them pretty darn full.

I am one of the guys that usually goes all out, but you guys have really gone to new heights with storing the jigs.

I don't know what to say except I don't think my boat would hold them like that in my boar boxes.

Nice set up though for sure...

Have you seen how the guy that did the CAT videos at their meeting on storing pre-rigged stuff? He used foam like that and used a tooth pick to anchor the start of wrapping them around the foam. He did the same thing with crank baits that are pre-rigged. Once he get them all made up and wrapped on the foam he takes the whole thing and slips it into a 3" or 4" PVC pipe with caps on each end.

Skip

[Jubs]

Glad you guys like it!

Skip- I know what you mean! I know you have a ton more patterns than I do. I keep thinking about what I am going to do with them all as I keep making new patterns. I haven't really fished many of my patterns since it's hard to find a good crappie or even gill lake in my area without traveling some and even then access is an issue without a boat. I get OCD about organizing my tackle and just about everything actually but yeah I couldn't just keep throwing them in a box anymore it was getting to me not having them organized and getting stuck together all the time.

I am sure I am going to end up with more than I know what to do with soon enough. I am already trying to figure out what to do with 40 or so I have sitting on my drying lines that are all new patterns. I think I need to go through that box I have above as most of them are my firsts as I am new to tying.

I did see the CAT video and that is the reason I had the pipe insulation in the first place as I was doing a lot of trout fishing and tie up all my own rigs. I was tired of buying the pre-made leader keepers for $5+ a piece as I had different rigs for different situations and I couldn't keep my supply up on multiple setups and make it affordable. I use them for pre-made dropper loop sets and with my bass setups as well.

[mikeb]

Jubs,,I like that :D
I got some of that insulation in the shop and I am gonna make me some.
thanks a lot ,mikeb