Storing Pre-rigged Soft Plastics?

[PennBass]

As a bank fisherman, I keep all of my tackle in a drawstring bag and don't want to take too much time switching lures. As such, I often pre-rig my soft plastics before a trip, storing them in a small tacklebox that I can carry around easily. However, all the colors end of mixing together, and my method is less than ideal.

How do you guys store pre-rigged plastics? Are there any methods out there that preserve the original color while also being easy to access? 

 

Thanks

[DumBassFishin]

Keep them in the bag?

[rightangling]

I would say your best bet is going to be using separated ZipLock bags. I know it's probably not the way you want to go because you would have done that, but that is the best way I can think of.

 

Best of luck

[flyingmonkie]

You know there is a silver lining to this, right?  You're fishing completely unique colors!  Embrace it.

[gardnerjigman]

Unless you snap off what's the point in pre-rigging very many plastics? 

[J Francho]

I've never "pre-rigged" my plastics - shore, boat, or kayak.  The baits are stored in the bag they came in until I'm tied up and ready to rig.

[gardnerjigman]

7 minutes ago, J Francho said:

I've never "pre-rigged" my plastics - shore, boat, or kayak.  The baits are stored in the bag they came in until I'm tied up and ready to rig.

Exactly. Like I said, unless you snap off are you going to pull a plastic off of your pre-rigging to put it on your tied on rig???? 

[junyer357]

30 minutes ago, J Francho said:

I've never "pre-rigged" my plastics - shore, boat, or kayak.  The baits are stored in the bag they came in until I'm tied up and ready to rig.

X2.  It takes only a few seconds to rig one up. I normally just carry bag of worms that im using in a back pocket and a weight in my pocket and extra hook on belt loop. 

Only exception is prerigging o rings on senkos occasionally, just so i can put a few in a shirt pocket and not have to tote o rings and tool around. 

[S. Sass]

1 hour ago, gardnerjigman said:

Exactly. Like I said, unless you snap off are you going to pull a plastic off of your pre-rigging to put it on your tied on rig???? 

Maybe he uses snaps or swivels? 

[gardnerjigman]

12 minutes ago, S. Sass said:

Maybe he uses snaps or swivels? 

At that point how much time do you really save then?

[S. Sass]

1 minute ago, gardnerjigman said:

At that point how much time do you really save then?

I would guess that would depend on the persons ability to tie knots properly. 

[PennBass]

I'm pretty lazy so I use snaps, and since I change spots every few minutes, it's bothersome to take off my bag every time, open up a box, take out plastics, rig it up, put the lure I was just using back, etc. I'm all about efficiency

[Heron]

I also pre-rig, particularly if I hadn't established any kind of a pattern yet, and am still shotgunning it.  Id rather bring along a variety of single specimens, rather than 10 bags of plastics.  To prevent bleeding, I just try to keep those things separated as best I can.

However if I have the fish figured out enough that I know I will only need just one, or two different baits, then I will bring the bags, along with some spare riggings.

[ErikmonBillsfon]

Maybe get those cd case bibder packs. I also pre rig some of my lures. I fish a lot of timber so if I get any nicks in the line I retie or change so much that it's some time quicker. Especially when you need to rig your soft plastic perfectly straight.

[Munkin]

One thing I am going to throw out there when it comes to pre-rigged soft plastics. If there is salt in the bait it will rust the hook especially if it is one of the matte black owner hooks. I lost about a dozen good jigs with Owner Deep Throat hooks thinking I was going to save TOW by pre-rigging them.

Allen

 

[bassin is addicting]

I totally understand where your coming from. When I started I used (and still do sometimes) snaps. Not because I was lazy and didn't want to retie.But because I wanted to be able to easily change baits,  not just  plastics but crankbait or to top water.and do it quickly. As for pre-rigging plastics, I would  pre-rig 6-8  and match them up by color and put them in Ziploc bags. Don't be lazy. Check your knots often. 

[buzzed bait]

not even being a smart*** here, i'm seriously wondering what is a pre-rigged plastic?  you mean like with the hook in it already or with a leader line tied on or what?

[S. Sass]

1 hour ago, buzzed bait said:

not even being a smart*** here, i'm seriously wondering what is a pre-rigged plastic?  you mean like with the hook in it already or with a leader line tied on or what?

 

Over 3000 posts in this fishing forum alone and you dont know or can't figure out what he is doing? 

Google pre rigged plastic.  

[EvanT123]

I don't pre rig t-rig plastics but I will certainly pre-rig some tubes or plastics on jig heads. 

[buzzed bait]

7 hours ago, S. Sass said:

 

Over 3000 posts in this fishing forum alone and you dont know or can't figure out what he is doing? 

Google pre rigged plastic.  

well you should know there is no direct correlation between post count and competency!  And after visiting your google search, i'm still wondering what the OP and everyone else are referring to.  Everything on the search are worms with 2 or 3 hooks in them from the manufacturer.  I still don't follow....

[gardnerjigman]

8 hours ago, S. Sass said:

 

Over 3000 posts in this fishing forum alone and you dont know or can't figure out what he is doing? 

Google pre rigged plastic.  

Super helpful...

[gardnerjigman]

48 minutes ago, buzzed bait said:

well you should know there is no direct correlation between post count and competency!  And after visiting your google search, i'm still wondering what the OP and everyone else are referring to.  Everything on the search are worms with 2 or 3 hooks in them from the manufacturer.  I still don't follow....

So what I'm picturing here is someone throwing a T-Rig with a snap swivel on and rather than just changing baits on the hook, they change out the hook and bait all together with one that is already rigged (rigged at home). I see no benefit in this at all. I can however see maybe some benefit to, as said above, swapping between hard baits and such. 

Idk... my head hurts. 

[buzzed bait]

29 minutes ago, gardnerjigman said:

So what I'm picturing here is someone throwing a T-Rig with a snap swivel on and rather than just changing baits on the hook, they change out the hook and bait all together with one that is already rigged (rigged at home). I see no benefit in this at all. I can however see maybe some benefit to, as said above, swapping between hard baits and such. 

Idk... my head hurts. 

evidently it's very obvious, but i can't see the forest for the trees or something like that....

i can tie a knot faster than i can open and close a swivel with my big goofy hands

[PennBass]

Sorry for the confusion guys. By pre-rigged, I mean that I just rig plastic lures up with the hook and tuck it away somewhere so it can be easily snapped on. 

As for why I use prerigged plastics/snap swivels instead of retying and/or taking lures off the hook, it's mostly to make it easier to change baits. For example, if a worm isn't working, instead of taking it off the hook (and potentially tearing it with the barb) and finding the original bag, I just take it off the swivel, and attach another prerigged plastic. 

Also, because I have limited space in my bag, I usually just take a small open-design tacklebox filled with prerigged plastics on fishing trips, instead of bringing 10 bulky bags full of plastics. 

The problem I have is that I store all my prerigged plastics together, and that causes the colors to bleed together.