Thanks to all for the words of wisdom. Points made good sense. I'll give
it a shot this season. The talk of Ronnie pawing through his forward
compartment reminds me of me pawing through my gym bag full of bags of
plastic and trying to find the 3 inchers. I'm going to try and do quite a
bit more planning this year so the boaters I fish with don't groan when I
back my truck up to the boat and start unloading.....

Glad to see all the "buds" still around........



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Sandy Joren
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IN GOD WE TRUST






"Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers.com" wrote in message
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"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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