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yeah when I come home from Gander Mountain or Scheels. I just tell the wife... I bought some new "shoes" and she knows I bought a rod or reel. If I tell her I bought some ear rings she knows I bought either new bait or terminal tackle. works well... she very rarely gets upset unless I buy too many pair of shoes in a short period of time. AL

Welcome... I am a newbie myself... everyone so far as been nice and the information I find while reading here is VERY good.. now if I could just catch more fish : AL

thanks for all the input... sorry I didn't thank you all earlier.. I have been out of town since Thurs. I think I have a handle.. I was doing it pretty well.. need to rearrange a bit but nothing drastic thanks again AL

I try to go once or twice a week. Sometimes I get to go after work for a couple of hours. its gonna come to a halt pretty soon when the time change goes into effect.. will be dark a lot of the time when I get off work. How much I go mostly has to do with work and all. work several weekends a month and from 0730 till whenever. wife is VERY supportive of my fishing as my job is high stress and she would rather see me fishing than drinking LOL AL

OK thanks... its kinda sorta similar but not similar to what I have now... what I have will work.. so my "wish list" on BPS won't grow past the 20 items I have on it now ;D thanks for taking the time to show me AL

since I am just starting out at fishing seriously.. my dream is a day with a guide in FLA,TX, or Castaic in CA, I would WANT my guide to fish, so I can watch him fish and mimic his technique and ask him 2 billion questions. Unfortunately I don't have the money to offer 100 or 300 dollar tips for the HUGE fish... but wow would it be awsome to catch a fish in the 10+ lb range! my personal best so far is about 3 lbs :-/ AL

yes I keep all my soft baits in the origional bags.. that way I know what they are faster ie a 7in worm as opposed to the 10in and all that stuff... Binder sounds like an interesting idea.. but what kind of binder? I don't think I have ever seen anything like that. the only real place I have for tackle is a fleet and farm and wally world... have a Gander Mountain about a 1/2 hour away and a Scheels about an hour away. thanks for your input AL

How do y'all set up your tackle boxes? do you have one tackle box for just plastics, and one for hard baits etc? I am origionally from Illinois about 45 min from Plano Molding so I go there to get most of my tackle boxes. I picked up a "factory second" Plano® 7592 Guide Elite StowAway Tackle Box paid a whopping 18.50 for it. I also pick up 5 or six of the smaller stow aways for in the top for my hooks, sinkers, some scum frogs, and a couple of hard baits, the bottom BIG stowaways are getting rapidly filled with different colors of my "confidence"bait the berkley power worm and other soft baits ie some horny toads and some lizzards... should I continue doing this? or should I use another bag I have that has 4 smaller stow aways exclusively for my softs which would free up the lower cases... I am sure I would fill up this smaller bag FAST if not have enough to fill it now!... I don't want to carry 4 different tackle boxes with me to the lake but if I want to catch fish I have to take as much as I can without swamping the boat. just give me some ideas on how you guys pack for the lake. thanks for any input AL