How do y'all store your daggum plastics?

[bassboy1]

I seem to have a soft spot for soft plastics. For my spares in the house, I can store them pretty easy, but am having trouble keeping them organized on the boat. It is fairly common for me to 40 - 60 bags with me, although I am trying to trim it down a bit. I doubt however, that I will get much below 35, and certainly will have trouble keeping it down that far. At the current, I have them just thrown in a hatch by themselves. But, even when I have them spread out, and can move them around easy, it is hard to find the bag I want with 59 others in there.

Though my boat has a lot of storage for its size, it still isn't the biggest boat around, so space is a bit limited. I have considered making something like the cooks system, but the only problem is, being that my boat is a 15 foot aluminum jon, my hatches are only 12 - 13 inches deep at the most, so they would take up too much space in my rod locker and such. I am thinking that bins are the way to go. Most of the worms I use are 6 - 10 inch, and most jig trailers and such seem to be of a similar dimension. I would like to find a way where I could sort all my finesse worms, lizards, senkos, jig trailers, etc out by them selves. Given that a under lid hanging system is out, at least for now, what method would best suite me?

[gatrboy52]

i went to plastic storage tubs for my bulk and labeled the lids .i have a satchel that i put what im going to use for that day that i keep on deck.i put say all trick worms in a gallon bag and label it ,same w/ frogs, flukes,or what ever .if im usein a wat. trick worm then i take it out of the gallon bag and lay it on the deck.been the best system ive used so far.not perfect but manageable.

[Luke]

I use 3700 series boxes for a lot of mine i just put the same type in the same box....one box for lizards, brush hogs, power worms and so on.....the other odd ball stuff gets hung on Cooks Go TO Tackle Systems under the lids...i cant post pics here from work but heres a thread in the Champion Forum that will give you an idea how they work
http://www.bbcboards.net...go-to

[emerson73114]

I use a worm bag from BPS. I have two double sided bags they hold around 30 or 40 bags each. I think it comes with 10 or 20 but I bought extra ziploc bags. I keep the worms in the original bag and put them in the BPS ziploc bags that come with it.

[Forkbass]

i use the soft worm bags similar to the above pic. on each handle i put a luggage type tag labeled with exactly what is in each side or bag. mine are organized by type only (brush hog, frog, worm, etc.) that way i know which bag to dig into. also, the lure types that you will most regularly use go in one, maybe two bags and remain close at hand. i don't waiste a lot of time searching for a plastic. kaizenlike.

[colreb2000]

I use Plano 3700 and just don't use the dividers. You can get like 5-6 bags per row. I use a magic marker and mark each box.......worms, lizards, tubes, straight worms, creatures, etc.

[rawhide]

I went to walmart and bought a bunch of rubbermaid shoe boxes (the no name brands are about $1). They are perfect for holding plastics. I just label them accordingly and set them in one of my rod lockers.

Packs of worms/lizards/etc...fit perfectly in there. Trick works have to be turned the other way in the box though due to their length.

I use to use plastic bags, but the shoe booxes work much better for me.

[motomania]

I keep about 3-5 baits of each style, in a zip-loc bag, up on deck. Then the rest of the soft plastics in their original bags in a storage compartment, in plano 3600's. (off the deck, and outta the way)
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Each 3600 is labeled by category. Creature baits, tubes, wacky worms, finesse worms, etc.
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That way, the deck's not cluttered with 'every-single-piece-of-tackle', and if the fish are hitting a particular style/color; I just jump into a storage compartment, and pull out the necessary supply.

[fishfry]

I use both Plano 3600s and Rubbermaid food storage containers. They stack nice and I label the lids.

[SUPERCHUGBUG]

i'm with you on having too many plastics! i have way too many on board at any given time. i just keep mine in gallon zip lock bags by type. when i prepare for a trip, i will generally know what i plan on throwing and drop a few of each in a quart sized zip lock. i'll reach for that bag as i go along. once i find a pattern of sorts, i will add to the quart bag.

[unklenew]

Falcon bags and keep the plastics in their original bags. Then I mark the bags with a sharpie so I know what's in each bag.

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