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I'm sure some of you guys have already figured out that the pool noodles are great for storing premade rigs. Does anyone know a good place to buy them in the winter time? People at walmart looked at me funny when I asked them if they had any pool noodles.. lol
Swimming pool places
Not a fan of the noodles. Over time, your line will crush the noodle and rigs will get loose. Ends up being a mess. I found these plastic snell holders that are cheap, convenient and work great.
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The link won't take you to the item, don't know why. Just find snell holders once you get to the site.
I use copper tubing foam insulation. You can get it in several sizes. They fit into my storage boxes better. I made a set each of double minnow, single minnow hook with jig on the bottom, and double gnats. I put eight rigs per tube which is the number of poles I fish. You can get them at any hardware store.
I have the Lindy's Rigger Kit and it works great! Amazon.com : Lindy Riggers - Lindy Rigger Kit - 3 Per Box : Fishing Downriggers : Sports & Outdoors
You can get noodles from here also...WHITE FOAM
And this Plano Snell Rig Holder...Amazon.com : Plano Snell Rig Holder (18 Pack Inside a 3600 Stowaway) : Fishing Equipment : Sports & Outdoors
I have all three and they all work fine. You can use the noodles to wrap around your rod holder for spider rigging and wrap your snells arund it if you want. Like it was said, you may have to replace after a bit if the string cuts into the foam. I bought the foam because I also made some jugging noodles with it. I still have LOTS left over.
Those Lindy Riggers look nice. Price isn't bad either. Thanks!
I ordered a case of the large diameter ones
from Walmart online and had them delivered to the store. That way I didn't have to pay shipping.
We have a store in town called Trader Horn(sells a little bit of everything) my GF went looking for a plastic kiddie pool the first of Dec.They had them.She was looking for one for her sister whose dog was having puppies and she stays in there with them.You never know what you'll find in some smaller stores.It won't be long and a lot of stores will be getting rid of winter stuff and stocking summer items.
we have a place up here called "family dollar" and we just saw some there - two different size diameters - 50 cents each
fish4brains
I also made some holders up with copper tubing insulation glued over the proper size dowel rod. Made them each about 8" long to fit the area I wanted to store them in. Were cheap to make, work great and have held up very well for probably 10 years now. Have a couple of the Lindy rigs also and I like the home made ones better!!!
Great minds work together. Mine are also 8" and I Gorilla glued a piece of 1/2 inch thin wall conduit inside mine. Small world.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger
Amazon or pretty much any internet warehouse shopping website.
I like these as the foam is tougher than pool noodle: Harness Tender | Tangle Free Storage of Walleye Harness Rigs
I never thought of the copper pipe insulation but that is a great idea. Smaller footprint over the pool noodles. I'll bet I can get three more of those in my walleye rig bag.
I still find the occasional box of pool noodles in Dollar General Stores in my travels after the pool season has ended.
The Lindy Riggers have been around for a couple decades now and work great without falling apart after a year or so. You can find a three pack online for about $15 and I've had a big green one since the early 90's that I still use for catfish rigs.
Amazon.com : Lindy Riggers - Lindy Rigger Kit - 3 Per Box : Fishing Downriggers : Sports & Outdoors
Haven't tried the dollar stores. But I think I'm not gonna worry about them and just order one of the Lindy Rigger kits.
I use these rigging tubes from Netcraft. I use them mainly for my pre-rigged drop shot leaders, but I'm sure they can be used for other rigs as well. Have used these for the last 10 years or more and they work very well:
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