Tackle - Usable Inventory and Storage Solution ???

[chaunc]

I have this bad addiction that hits me every winter. Tackle buying. At the end of every season I clear most of my tackle from my boat compartments. All the jig boxes, jighead boxes, crank bait boxes, and plastics. I put them and anything else laying around, in a cooler and put that in my storage bin. While I’m waiting for the ice to form, I find myself tackle shopping again. Getting all the newest stuff that hits the market. By spring, I’m loaded up again. New boxes, bags, crankbaits, couple rods and reels and they all go in the boat. Find myself buying more of the same baits that worked last season while I still have the ones in storage from last season. I’ll never be able to use all the stuff I have stored. Planning on giving this stuff to the local scouts and brownies this spring. That way I’ll have more room next winter to store this years stuff.

[BuckeyeCrappie]

When you have teenage grandsons you can never have enough!

[Alphahawk]

For about 12 years now this it. Used to have a big tackle box full. Since switching to cast and retrieve UL angling exclusively, what is in that box is all I use. I catch all the crappie....Gills.....Smallies.....KY bass....shell cracker.....white bass.....and trout, that I could hope for. Of course if your trolling.....pulling cranks......this ain’t gonna work.

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[DV8ed]

Chaunc is my kind of guy. Philanthropist and fisherman. Hat tip, Sir.

[DRFISHDUCK]

I have lotsa tackle that I store in several Plano flat boxes and in 5 big tackle boxes. I bought a small $8.95 2 tray tackle box that I keep stocked with everything I need. Jigs, hooks, split shots, floats, pliers, nippers, roadrunners, beetle spins, crappie nibbles, etc. Works for me and I keep it stocked as needed.

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[Grainraiser]

I have around 30 Plano boxes I keep all me gear stored in. I label each box and store in them at home on a shoe rack that is about 4ft tall by 3ft wide. I only carry one Plano box two rods when I hit the lake. I think about the lures i'm use the night before a trip and fill up my Plano box. I can't stand fishing in a boat with crap all over the place. Never understood why a person has to have 10 rods in the boat to fish (unless your a spider rigger). I keep it very simple and carry very little with me when I go fish.

[Jamesdean]

I started buying the black and yellow boxes at Freight a couple years back. They have a compartment on top under the lid and hold four compartment type plastic boxes under that. Then I have bigger tackle box I got at a flea market with swing out tray's over storage in the bottom, and there is always the loose Plano boxes laying around. I watched a Ketchn you tube one time and he was sayin' something about only taking a couple jigs/ lures with him a a time. After I sat back and realized I honestly only use a couple when I go, I cut back o taking so much with me...I'll tote a 5-gal. bucket with a couple plano boxes, and I have three poles that are always in my truck. If I need to change or restock, then I'll do that, other wise, I'm ready to fish any time. Oh yea, there's pliers, nibbles, and slab sauce in the bucket too!

[trypman1]

Winter time- more stuff, Spring time- less stuff.

[skeetbum]

I have downsized from many boxes of non descriptive nature to Plano boxes of many sizes. From pocket size to large, and one to hold most all of nothing but trolling plastics. Some I don’t use much. Don’t use the go.f clubs much but no one will give you anything for em, so I’ll trip over them for a while longer. I have a 6 gallon jug milk crate that I put a lid on about 20 years ago that holds what I need to take, and put the appropriate boxes in and take those I won’t be using and put them on the shelf. One medium sizes Plano box has about 80 ultralight hardbaits in it, and it will never go away either. Had a lot of fun at yard sales and flea markets finding those. Found a box at a sale once that had about 35 rapalas in it in various sizes and states of repair, and some parts. I’ve whittled it down as far as I can, they just work too good sometimes. Something about a 3lb smallmouth on a #5 rapala and 4 pound test, largemouth too.