Soft Plastic Organization

[Skeet22]

I know there have been several threads on this already so dont mean to beat a dead horse but figured I would share something I have decided to do with my plastics since my old worm binder was maxed out

While worm binders are nice they are limited on how much you can pack in there. I rather have all my plastics with me rather than just taking a few bags of what you think you may need and running out or not having something the fish may want that day. This more geared towards someone who fishes from there boat. If fish as a non boater or co angler you will have to compromise and be selective on what to bring with you for the day.

I removed all of my packages from my current worm binder. I the categorized them by.

Straight Tail"trick worm"

Straight Tail"Finesse"

Ribbon Tail -4-6"

Ribbon Tail - 7-10"

Creature Bait

Craw Bait

Stick Bait

Fluke/Shad

Frog

Paddle Tail/Speed Worms

I place all like baits in a heavy duty worm binder bags and will put these in a shallow rubbermaid plastic container that will fit in my dry storage compartment in my boat. When not on the water I can slide the container under my bed in the ac to keep the plastics out of the heat. This should make life much easier when trying to find baits on the water not to mention it will prevent the baits from becoming deformed due to being jammed up in the worm binder.

[backwater4]

I bought a few binders from BPS. They're more like small bags than true worm binders. They hold a lot more and are neater than the regular binders. I've come to the conclusion there is no perfect system. I've moved stuff around, bought and sold boxes and binders, threw everything in plastic totes at one point and keep going back to some sort of binder.

[BASSclary]

Now i zip tie all my say, worms together in there riginal packaging, then I put all my zip tied plastics on a really really big Carabiner, So I have like 10 different categories with all that type of bait in that category. Works pretty well and you can just clip it to your soft tackle bag if you want.

[fishfordollars]

I hate the binders, to cumbersome.

I leave them in original bag , store them on peg boards in the garage, and then grab the ones i want, throw them in a plastic Kroger grocery bag, and throw them in the boat.

Just takes a glance at the peg board to see what needs to be replaced.

It works for me.

[repper]

Everybody has to figure this one out for themselves. what I do now, and this works best for me, is put everything into Plano 3750, or at least I think that's the number. I have the plano's labeled by what in them. my boxes say things like jig trailers, crawdads, senkos, robos, flukes, shallow cranks, deep cranks, topwaters, jigs, weights, hooks, and so on. nothing remains in the packaging as the packaging itself takes up way too much room. i've got some add'l stuff, like a soft binder that has spinnerbaits in it, and a coupel of deeper plano's(forget the number) that have swimbaits in them. plano makes a container for crankbaits that i have found works really well. i've got some other 3700 labeled, but I can't remember what they are labeled right now. and I have several large plastic bags with misc soft plastics in them. it's not perfect, but it works for me! and it's the only way I can fit all my shxx into my tackle storage area of the boat! I've got more worms than I'll ever use, but I also have tons of options on the water, which is what you need to to the best you can. i just thought of a couple of other box labels: beavers, big worms,grubs,frogs/toads.

[Raul]

You can do it either with a spinnerbait binder or with a 3700 T-box, in a spinnerbait binder each page can hold 2-3 bags of baits per compartment, having 2 compartments per page and  4-5 pages you can carry a truckload of bags ( up to 30 bags ), in a 3700 T-box each row can hold up to 6 bags per row, having 4 rows you can carry up to 24 bags of soft plastics, to know what 's inside you can use a sticky label on the lid. I have both systems and both work great, it depends more on what I 'm going to carry.

[The Bassinator]

I like BASSclary's idea if you could put it in a three ring binder then you could turn the packages like pages but I just go with ziploc freezer bag and I organize the plastics by shape like trickworms, creature baits, craws, ribbon tail worms, etc.  It seems easier to me to just grab a bag of the type of bait I need and then find the color.

[SoFlaBassAddict]

I tried the whole binder thing and hated it.  I just pull some plastics out of the bags from my peg board, fill up a 3700 size box and go fishing.  I haven't had a problem yet with them drying out or anything like that.  At the end of the day, I store them inside of the garage so they don't build up excessive heat.  Seems to work just fine.  One box for flipping/creature baits, one for worms, and one for craws.

[bandsr4me20]

I keep the soft plastics that I do not want crumpled up in their original bags.  I keep the orginal bags sorted into gallon ziplock bags.  For yum dingers, I put those in a worm binder.

[bassman018]

I have a few plano trays in my tackle bag. I have one for worms, creature baits, senkos. It takes up space but i can easilly access them without dorting through 50+ bags.