I have so much tackle I can't find anything?

[Munkin]

Anyone else have the same problem that they have so much tackle they cannot find what they are looking for? My basement, garage, living room, and SUV have so much tackle that I have a hard time finding anything I am looking for. The stuff I use 90% of the time I can find but when someone asks if I have something they are looking for it is like a search for the Holy Grail around here. It is out of hand with the mounds of different boxes of lures to the point it takes me forever to find something. An example is someone was looking for some SK spin shad spinnerbaits and it took 6 weeks for me to find them hidden in a old spinnerbaits box that I forgot about. Good thing is I finally found them with some SK Titanium baits that someone else was looking for. This has gotten ridiculous with the hording of baits. Hopefully in the next several months I can cull out the 1000 baits I will never use so I can actually walk around my basement and find what I am looking for,

 

Anyone else have this problem?

 

Allen

[WRB]

Time to get yourself organized.

Tom

[Ksam1234]

17 minutes ago, Munkin said:

Anyone else have the same problem that they have so much tackle they cannot find what they are looking for? My basement, garage, living room, and SUV have so much tackle that I have a hard time finding anything I am looking for. The stuff I use 90% of the time I can find but when someone asks if I have something they are looking for it is like a search for the Holy Grail around here. It is out of hand with the mounds of different boxes of lures to the point it takes me forever to find something. An example is someone was looking for some SK spin shad spinnerbaits and it took 6 weeks for me to find them hidden in a old spinnerbaits box that I forgot about. Good thing is I finally found them with some SK Titanium baits that someone else was looking for. This has gotten ridiculous with the hording of baits. Hopefully in the next several months I can cull out the 1000 baits I will never use so I can actually walk around my basement and find what I am looking for,

 

Anyone else have this problem?

 

Allen

I have 3 tackle boxes containing 5 3700 size containers .. and I thought that was hard to manage. Can’t imagine  all that. 

[Munkin]

12 minutes ago, Ksam1234 said:

I have 3 tackle boxes containing 5 3700 size containers .. and I thought that was hard to manage. Can’t imagine  all that. 

 

Last count I had 46 Plano boxes and 7 66quart containers for stuff that is extra that I don't carry in the boat. It has become ridiculous and I expect the fishing lures hoarders to show up at any time to berate me.

 

Allen 

[Joshua van Wyk]

I only have 3 Plano 3700 boxes!

[Munkin]

1 minute ago, Joshua van Wyk said:

I only have 3 Plano 3700 boxes!

 

[Joshua van Wyk]

1 minute ago, Munkin said:

 

???

Maybe id have more boxes if I didn't keep getting snagged!

[Munkin]

I carry at least 12 rods and if I broke off every cast I would run out of line before I ran out of lures.

 

Allen

[haggard]

46 minutes ago, Munkin said:

so much tackle they cannot find what they are looking for?

Simplify. Lower it down to only the absolute bare necessities. Then cut that in half

 

 

 

[tander]

95% of my tackle is in my boat. I only keep extra plastics and a few cranks that I know I will need when I run out or lose. I know exactly where everything is in my boat.

[DINK WHISPERER]

Nope! I have OCD so I'm over organized. 

[Munkin]

11 minutes ago, tander said:

95% of my tackle is in my boat. I only keep extra plastics and a few cranks that I know I will need when I run out or lose. I know exactly where everything is in my boat.

My Coast Guard plate says 550lbs max so it would sink if I were to put all my tackle in it. 

 

I have been making strides the last few years to cull tackle but it isn't easy.

 

Allen

[Mobasser]

I organized my stuff years ago, nd paired down too.I take what I need for a fishing trip, which is not always that much depending on time of year. I catch more fish this way too. I like keeping it simple

[Ksam1234]

1 hour ago, Munkin said:

 

Last count I had 46 Plano boxes and 7 66quart containers for stuff that is extra that I don't carry in the boat. It has become ridiculous and I expect the fishing lures hoarders to show up at any time to berate me.

 

Allen 

My wife would kill me.. she knows how much that would be in $$ lol

[Munkin]

2 minutes ago, Ksam1234 said:

My wife would kill me.. she knows how much that would be in $$ lol

Mine has said she will sell all of them for $0.50 each if I die. I have a friend that will sell them for her if something happens to me who knows what they are actually worth. Otherwise I am sure there would be some happy customers buying RI BLV's, Lucky Crafts, and Megabass Visions for that price.

 

Allen

48 minutes ago, DINK WHISPERER said:

Nope! I have OCD so I'm over organized. 

 

Stop by my house then as I have a serious project for you.

 

Allen

[fishwizzard]

I had the beginnings of a massive pile of tackle going myself, but manage to purge maybe 50% of it this year.  I also really cut down on my random buying.

 

That being said, if you find any hairjigs or handpoured worms in your pile, shoot me a PM

 

[WRB]

Step 1 sort it out by lure function.

Step 2 label your storage boxes by lure function.

Step 3 put only the lures you use into the storage boxes, sorted out.

Step 4 put all the lures you don't use into storage boxes, sorted out.

Step 5 put the boxes you use into your boat by lure function so you can read the labels. For example my swimbaits are in the passenger side rear compartment, crankbaits in the driver side, soft plastics I use more often in the center storage, less used and terminal tackle in the passenger side front locker, rods and reels in the left front locker.

Step 6 put the boxes you don't use into storage cabinates by lure function so you can read the labels. Jigs I keep in a Albacore backpack that sits between the front seats.

You are now organize and ready to go fishing or ready to locate or  sell what you don't use.

Tom

[Bluebasser86]

I have a ton of stuff that is very loosely organized. Thing is, I know where about everything is at, provided my wife doesn't move it somewhere, at that point it's lost forever. 

[soflabasser]

4 hours ago, Munkin said:

 

Last count I had 46 Plano boxes and 7 66quart containers for stuff that is extra that I don't carry in the boat. It has become ridiculous and I expect the fishing lures hoarders to show up at any time to berate me.

 

Allen 

Impressive amount of tackle you have. I have at least 14 Plano tackle boxes filled to capacity and a old,big plastic tackle box completely filled to capacity as well. Hoping to get more lures to add to my collection as time passes.

[thinkingredneck]

Mine are organized into planos and labeled by type (i.e., trickworm,  large worm, finesse worm, terminal tackle, spinnerbaits,  etc).  I label with a sharpie on an address label and put on the edge and put them stacked flat on a shelf so that I can see the label.  I have a kayak bag that holds three planos, labled top, bottom and middle.  I fill these from my stored boxes according to what I want to use.  I have a second travel box that is a double sided box, with a mixture of lures for guests, or my wife to use.

 

Fly boxes are organized by species.

[Tizi]

I have a ton of tackle too.  My interest is in tackle systems.  What is a good system to manage it all.  I have not found a box that can efficiently hold:  crankbaits, plastics, spinnerbaits etc.

[roadwarrior]

23 minutes ago, Tizi said:

My interest is in tackle systems.  What is a good system to manage it all.  

1.  Man Cave: One wall with peg board for soft plastics in original bags.  Another wall for rod and

     reels. A third wall with shelving for Plano box storage.

2.  Plano 3700 for a little bit of everything adapted for the specific season.

3. Plano 3600 for what I intend to fish on a given day.

 

[Munkin]

15 hours ago, WRB said:

Step 1 sort it out by lure function.

Step 2 label your storage boxes by lure function.

Step 3 put only the lures you use into the storage boxes, sorted out.

Step 4 put all the lures you don't use into storage boxes, sorted out.

Step 5 put the boxes you use into your boat by lure function so you can read the labels. For example my swimbaits are in the passenger side rear compartment, crankbaits in the driver side, soft plastics I use more often in the center storage, less used and terminal tackle in the passenger side front locker, rods and reels in the left front locker.

Step 6 put the boxes you don't use into storage cabinates by lure function so you can read the labels. Jigs I keep in a Albacore backpack that sits between the front seats.

You are now organize and ready to go fishing or ready to locate or  sell what you don't use.

Tom

It was organized at one point and a lot of it still is. Soft plastics are kept in their original bags and but in a tote or box by type e.g. senkos, creature baits, straight worms, etc. Unopened hard baits are stored the same as soft plastics and opened baits are stored in plano boxes. I have a system that I just need to maintain it and either buy more plano boxes or get rid of some hardbaits (which seem to be breeding on the bench).

 

 

3 hours ago, Tizi said:

I have a ton of tackle too.  My interest is in tackle systems.  What is a good system to manage it all.  I have not found a box that can efficiently hold:  crankbaits, plastics, spinnerbaits etc.

 

It is called a bass boat.

 

Allen

[Cgolf]

I got sick of trying to figure out what plastics were in what box so I spent a rainy afternoon when the wife was out and wrote down the brand style and colors of all the baits in each box and numbered them as I went. I then put them in a table ordering by brand style and color. Then I was able to condense baits that were in multiple boxes into just one box. 

 

Now it’s easy to find a Berkley 4” Ripple shad I’m uncle Rico and a Kalins Ron’s craw grub. Look at my list and I go to the right box the first time instead of the 10th time. This saves me a large amount of time. Same would work for bagged plastics across multiple boxes too.  

 

Now I need to figure out if I do this with my other tackle. 

[BASS302]

On 10/14/2018 at 5:18 PM, Munkin said:

Last count I had 46 Plano boxes and 7 66quart containers for stuff that is extra that I don't carry in the boat. It has become ridiculous and I expect the fishing lures hoarders to show up at any time to berate me.

 

On 10/14/2018 at 5:57 PM, Munkin said:

My Coast Guard plate says 550lbs max so it would sink if I were to put all my tackle in it. 

 

The solution:  Buy a couple more boats!