Garage & Your Baits Storage?

[eyedabassman]

I will be buying a home with a 3 1/2 garage and i want to store my baits in the garage and use peg board and pegs to hang my baits.Any other ideas or pictures of yours would help.

[tbone1993]

Idk what type of area you live in but where I live the last place I like keeping my baits is my garage. If you have tons of gear put an alarm on that garage and get some cameras. Nothing is worse than have thousands of dollars worth of gear stolen.  On a side note get some rubbermaid tubs along with metal shelves to keep them on. 

[Sam]

Plastics in your house if possible.

 

You can set the order of your other baits as you please based on type and color.

[flipin4bass]

Your summers are probably not as brutal as ours down here, but the garage is the last place I'd put tackle and baits in. I've seen the mercury hit 110-120 inside my garage in the summer. Our youngest has left the nest and I now have one of our extra bedrooms to transform into my man cave/tackle room.

[eyedabassman]

What was I thinking,I never thought about the heat factor! DAAAAAAAAAAA!Now I have to look for a house with another bedroom! LOL

[SirSnookalot]

I'm in South Florida, my gear is kept in the garage year round, including my plastic baits.  I keep them in the original package housed in drawers, nothing has suffered due to heat.  I keep a few packs in the trunk of my car, again no issues with heat.

[rockchalk06]

I've been storing everything in the garage year round on peg boards. So far I haven't noticed any problems with plastics or cranks.

We have some brutal summers here too. 110 was average last year.

Main reason it's stored in the garage........I live with a high maintenance women who still thinks dried up worm guts on hooks is "icky" and should stay out side. I haven't fished with a worm in 20 years lol

[eyedabassman]

This is good to know! Now I don't have to look for another bed room.I am looking to move to MO. to Table Rock lake.I was going to put up alot of peg's.

[Fishes in trees]

Are you sure a 3 1/2 car garage will be enough?  With one slot for the boat and another slot for your tow vehicle, that only leaves 1 1/2 slots for storing fishing gear.  You may want to build a car port or something for your go to town/work car.

 

Where are you going to put your lawn gear?  Riding mower, push mower, weed eater, DR trimmer, assorted lawn and  maintenance tools are all going to need a roof over them as well.   You may need to build an additional tool shed.

 

Just know that no matter how much covered storage space you've got, it is never enough.  Or it will only be enough for a while.  When I decided to build a storage shed big enough to pull my boat and truck into and not have to unhook it, I thought I had solved my storage issues.  Sorry, only just for a while.  Now that shed is pretty full.  Now, if I need some open space to work on some project, I've got to move either my fishing boat or my go †o work car.  It is a dilemma.

 

The next time I've got some spare money to upgrade my fishing/storage space, I'm going to build something in the 150' x 90' range.

 

With that being said, it is cool that you've got a 3 1/2 car garage.  Lots of guys don't have that much and they are constantly tripping over their gear, tools and toys.  How high is the ceiling in your garage?  I've managed to create quite a bit of overhead storage (of light things) in my garage.

 

Where in the Table Rock neighborhood are you buying?  I know that Table Rock is a big neighborhood, covering parts of several different counties.

[derekxec]

i live near sirsnookalot and i also store in garage with no problems

[sarcazmo]

I've started storing my plastics inside and use this style of plastic shelf.

 

 

I make dividers out of cardboard and place a couple in each.  Then I put a piece of tape over each section and label it.  For example one would be "Green Craws" "Black and Blue Craws"  "Green Creatures"  etc etc.  I find this to work exceptionally well for plastics.  Then before I head out I decide what I want to bring and it keeps everything really well organized.

 

For my hard tackle I have one plano box for each.  Ie one for 6xds, 3xds, jigs, topwater.  Same as above I decide what I want to take and off we go.

 

I always have my tackle box with what I consider 'essentials' as well.

[eyedabassman]

Thanks for the info! I will be moving down to Kimberling City.And I would have a John deer room for the lawn toys! My wite has her car and my boat pulling truck and my Triton and my wife's car gets the garage,go figure! I have alot of plastic bags to hang!

[Blues19]

I am from Missouri, lived in Springfield a few years ago. Anyway, looking at storage areas... If you do not have a house picked out, you should look at making sure you have a basement.  A basement would not only be a great place to store your gear, but its also the safest place durring tornados, which seem to have been pretty bad in the past few years.  Missouri weather can be insane, we had snow in May, only 2 days after weather was in the 80s.  It will get up to the 100s in the summer, down below freezing in the winters. I always store my gear in the basement when possible.  It wont get too hot, safe from storms, safer than the garage from burglers, and its nice to work on sorting out what you need/have and everything in the cool basement during the middle of the summer. 

As for storing, I keep my plastics in big rubbermade boxes labeled  Creatures, Lizards, Craws, Striaght Tail, Curl Tail Worms, Senkos, etc. I have a shoe box full of extra Terminal Tackle,  and I keep the hard baits that are not Main Stays in extra Plano boxes.  I keep all those on a shelving unit in the corner of the basement.  It doesnt take up a whole lot of room if you stack everything.  I have a round rod rack that I keep my rods on too.  Hope this helps.

 

And being at Table Rock, your only 45 min to an hour from Academy, Bass Pro and the Bass Pro Outlet!

[basuwilles]

Hey, eyedabassman !!

I think keeper is right you need to take a very good care of your gear by puting an alarm, automatic gate openers only if you are placing it n the garage else its not necessary, then the most important thing from which you can fully protect your gear by getting them stollen is cameras.

[MCS]

I'm in South Florida, my gear is kept in the garage year round, including my plastic baits.  I keep them in the original package housed in drawers, nothing has suffered due to heat.  I keep a few packs in the trunk of my car, again no issues with heat.

 

X2 SirSnookalot is correct. All my gear is kept in the garage on a shelf in the original packages. It doesn't get hot enough in your garage to do anything too them. And a plus to the garage and trunk is there is no sunlight beating down on them through a window.