Tackle room

[whitwolf]

Ok folks I have outgrown my tackle area and have been thinking about options. The one I really like Is having an entire room for nothing but tackle in the original house on the property. This house was built in 1901 and has no power. The only thing that concerns me Is that It gets hot and humid in the Summer and would like to have any feedback from folks that store their tackle In a similar environment. Thanks!

[jr231]

Hot and humid = melted plastics. 

 

It's awesome you have that much stuff !   . .. I have quite a bit... It's scattered though between the basement and garage.. mostly rods , and nets outside and the tackle in the basement.. my poker table is flooded with online purchases and I keep my tackle bags/pack/box in 2 large totes . It works for now. 

 

I'd like to trade some of my tackle for time off to get to use even half of my stuff. 

 

 

[kickerfish1]

So to be clear your current tackle room is becoming too small for your collection? Also it is located in somewhere other than the non air conditioned place you are thinking about moving it to?
 

You could scale back on what you have. Probably unlikely, but I am not sure I would store things in that sort of temp. You may be ok with hard baits and rigging but depending upon the temp it may be too hot for plastics and possibly a few other things.

 

Any chance you would have a basement with AC/Heat as an option that you could use. Maybe do a swithcharoo and move some things from the basement area to this other place without heat like say Christmas décor or other things you may not use very often.

[edfitzvb]

I keep my tackle in an old shed on my property. There is no electricity, but the shed is under a large white pine that keeps summer temperatures at actual temperature instead of heating up like a closed up environment. I have had no issues

[KDW96]

The heat and humidity will not hurt anything. But, i would ad silica packs to anything with hooks on it just to help control rusting. Try to have some air flow it will help also(window left open a bit).

Your worst enemy is going to be mice. Do what ever you can to keepem out. 

The heat will not hurt plastics. Its no different than keepin them in a boat, or how the pros haulem in their truck:)

 

[lo n slo]

dear whit,

   i will glady store your tackle overflow here at my house in mooresville.

your pal, lo  

(certified tackle custodian llc)

[frosty]

4 minutes ago, lo n slo said:

dear whit,

   i will glady store your tackle overflow here at my house in mooresville.

your pal, lo  

(certified tackle custodian llc)

What a nice guy!

[Fishes in trees]

A number of years ago, I built a shed to house my fishing truck, boat, and assorted gear.  It isn't heated, but I did run electricity to it, so that I could leave my boat plugged in all the time.  You should also.  (Run electricity, not park your boat inside the house)  If you don't you won't be able to work in your shelter at night.  Even during the day, lights are a big help but I still have to move into better light to tie knots sometimes.   

 

As mentioned previously the heat and cold won't damage your soft plastics.   (At least it doesn't in Missouri). Mice are an issue.  I try to keep everything sorted and sealed in plastic shoe boxes.   They go on sale every so often.  The west interior wall of the shed is a rod rack.

 

Every time shelving goes on sale at Home Depot or other similar stores, but some.  You can't have enough shelving.   I used to use those Halogen job site lights.   Those go through bulbs, don't buy those.   LED job site lights are better.

 

I've got to say, I like having all my gear centralized and out of the way.   It gives me a place to hide out.

[buzzed bait]

15 hours ago, kickerfish1 said:

You could scale back on what you have.

 

brad, i just wanted to stick up for john for a second here.  he's actually a good guy and not nearly as dumb as his comment here would lead you to believe....  honestly, i'm sure he was either drinking, under stress or being physically forced to make such a stupid remark!!  i mean john owns like 7 figures worth of jigs so we know he didn't really mean it.....

 

that said, my old man sold our house we used to live in and stored a lot of his excess stuff in a shed in a similar situation behind his shop.... old, humid and no power.  not necessarily his tackle, but a lot of his stuff was nearly ruined from keeping it in there so i'd look elsewhere knowing how much you treasure that collection!

[Bluebasser86]

I keep all my stuff in my shop even when temps get in triple digits and haven't had any ill effects. 

[whitwolf]

Thanks for all the replies! I have a pegboard set-up right now and would like to continue that. I will show a couple of pictures of what I have now and we'll see If y'all think It's doable. Keep the replies coming folks!

[whitwolf]

Another shot.......

[crypt]

you ever thought of opening up a tackle shop ??? just saying............. 

 

[Fishes in trees]

If I'm storing those baits in a non climate controlled area, I'm keeping them packed in plastic shoe boxes - more to protect the packaging than to protect the baits side the packaging.  I prefer the plastic shoe boxes with the attached lids to the ones with separate lids because they stack easier and it is MUCH harder to lose the lids.  Every so often when they go on sale for around $2 per box, ore or less, buy 20 of them.   Do that a few dozen times and eventually you'll have enough plastic boxes.  I use the same size boxes in my garage to sort stray tools, sockets, and assorted other necessary garage tools.

In a non climate controlled environment, dust is your enemy.  Whatever you can do to protect your stuff is money well spent in the long run.

Mice are another enemy.  Don't skimp on rat & mouse poison.  I switch brands every so often.  When I put the boat away and cover it for the winter in my shed, I buy some stuff called Cab Clear - or something like that.  It has a smell that mice don't like (allegedly) and it isn't totally putrid for you to sniff.  I've used that stuff the last two years and I've found zero mouse turds when I vacuum out the boat prior to the first trip of the year.

 

One more tip for non climate controlled storage - invest in shelving.  Keeping stuff up & off the floor makes it easier to organize and a little more of a challenge for pests.