"Sandy Joren" wrote in message
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Got a question for you folk. I finally started making a storage area in
my basement so I could get all my fishing stuff where I can spend the rest
of the winter getting everything ready for the season. My question is
storage for plastics. I have fished many tournaments as a non-boater and
have noticed quite a few of my boaters keep their plastic, like senkos,
stored in things like the Plano 3600. I've always been one to keep my
plastics in the bags they came in. Does it make a difference? Thanks in
advance

Well hey there Sandy!

Long time no see! I used to keep my soft plastics in the original bags, but
found that there were few ways to reasonably store them so that I could
easily organize them and see all the choices I have. There's little more
frustrating than pawing through bags looking for one particular color and
not being able to find it! I tried using the soft sided, two ring binder
type organizers but just didn't like them. It seemed that the bags would
fall open or tear, then I had lures all over the place.

Since then, I have gone to the Plano 3700 boxes for my soft plastics as
well. I like them because I can have one box for stick baits, one for fluke
type lures, one for tubes, one for creatures, etc. Then I can have a fairly
wide assortment of colors and sizes in each box and at a glance, can get a
good idea of what I have for choices. And, with a glance, I can tell when
I'm getting low on a particular color or size, which makes it easier to
restock.

The one positive to keeping them in the bag is if you want to put oils or
scents in the bag and saturate the lures. But you can use standard zip-lock
bags and still keep them in the Plano box too.

I like the boxes when I'm fishing out of another boat. I can keep all my
hooks in one box along with a small selection of weights. Then I pre-plan
what I'm going to use and just take the four or five boxes I need. These
fit easily into a gym bag and take up little room in the boat. Four rods,
five boxes in a gym bag or back pack and I'd be pretty well equipped for
just about any tournament.
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Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers
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