Plastic storage and organized?

[vincedia]

How do you keep your plastic?

I now have (thanks to the bait monkey) a few dozen plastic bags and they are getting hard to handle.

Any suggestions?

Will they dry out in hard plastic cases?

Thanks,

Vince

[burleytog]

I've got around 60 or 70 bags of plastics.  Keep them in two smaller tackle bags, organized according to type and color (organization doesn't last long once I get on the water though).

I have given thought to storing all of them in 3700 series boxes, but it is much easier to just keep them in their original packaging.  Just takes up a whole lot more space.

[Chode2235]

Yeah I keep them in a tackle bag too. Usually sorted ,but it usually breaks down. Of course I spend a lot of time before getting out on the water to make sure everything is resorted and ready. I myself have a Falcon double worm bag, I like it a lot.

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[Theresamarie1]

I too am suffering from too many bags of plastics and no good storage solution.  Come on all of you experts, share your storage and organization secrets.

How do you keep your plastic?

I now have (thanks to the bait monkey) a few dozen plastic bags and they are getting hard to handle.

Any suggestions?

Will they dry out in hard plastic cases?

Thanks,

Vince

[SBM-RL]

I keep them in worm bags like the one chode shows u would be amazed at how many bags u can fit inside

[OSU_Fisherman]

I have wondered about storing the worms in hard cases too.  Do they dry out?

Someone enlighten us!

[Lucky Craft Man]

I actually keep my plastics in Zip-Lock Snack bags (they are smaller then regular Zip-Lock bags) and then place the bags in any type of tackle box.  After I use a plastic that can be used next time, I just place it in a different bag then the originals, but put it in thesame bin.  They work quite well and they don't allow the plastics like Berkley GULP from drying out.

[Murray]

i keep mine in a plano plastic--i have never had problems with drying out

[bubbler]

I store mine in the plano flipsider tackle box.

I works great for me.

[Clayton]

I keep mine in a Browning tackle box in the plastic shelves, no probs so far.

[cbfishalot]

I keep all my tackle in 3700 cases by bait type. Plastics are in the origanal bags with the exception of tubes and robo worms. My tackle bag will hold 13 cases and has two small side pockets. Tubes are in a case out of the package so its easy too find a color and rig faster. Robo worms are in a Falcon jerkbait case that will hold 14 different colors. This makes it easy to select colors more then anything. Before a go out fishing I will grab the 13 cases that I plan on using the most. All the other plastics that I might need are pulled out of there cases and put into a falcon worm bag. Spinnerbaits and buzzbaits are in falcon wallets that are attached to my bag with a caribeaner. I have my tube jig heads, round ball heads, football heads and shakey heads in 3 small plano boxes seperated by jig head type. These are placed into a falcon mag worm bag and they fit perfect. When I get onto the boat I have my rods, 1 tackle bag with 1 spinnerbait and 1 buzzbait wallet attached, and 2 worm bags.

Some tackle will dry out if they are taken out of the bags and some will bleed. I'm really thinking about taking my grubs out of the package but I really think they will dry out.

I fish as a co-angler in tournaments and most people can't believe how organized my tackle is. It is finding a system that fits your needs. What I do is take a bait at the store any find the case that best fits those baits. For example my 5in senkos and 4in senkos are in two different types of plano 3700 series boxes.

[HPBB]

For soft plastic:

I have one Plano type box that I call my "goto box" I keep the stuff I use most often in there. Some tubes, senkos, flukes, sweet beavers ...ect

The rest of my soft plastics I keep in their original bags, but I put those bags in a rubbermaid type shoe box. Those shoe boxes are just the right size and you can put quite a few bags in there. Then I have the labeled for what kind they are. they fit really nice in my storage compartments on the boat. Just stack them in there.

[gman2]

Well I kinda break the mold.  Almost all my plastics are in 3700 boxes.  I print labels off on my computer and use a piece of shipping tape over the top to keep the water from eating the label.  Then I also use a magic marker and color the small lip over the label.  For example Red is jig boxes,  black is flippin baits - brushawgs , super hawgs.  And I just use laels and color cordination.  My next point will sound kinda lazy but it makes everything tons easier.  The point of the color is so that when you look into 20 0r 30 boxes and you want a jig alll you have to look foe is red.  THen after locating the red boxes start reading labels.  It saves a lil time.  Sometimes that one last cast in a tourney can make you or break you.  Hope this help somebody else.  Also I store my inventory in large ziplock bags by style.  SO like all my plastic frogs in one then when I need to replenish my boxes its really easy.  

[Bud]

     I myself have a Falcon double worm bag, I like it a lot.  

I to use the Falcon double bag

[NBR]

I have a good sized plastic tub a Wally World special. Sort the baits by kind and color and keep them in their original bags until those bags are damaged then I put them in a zip lock bag (freezer bags are more durable). The smaller bags are put in 1 or 2 gallon zip lock freezer bags according to type and the type written on the outside with indelible pen. All of the bigger bags are put in the tub.

[RottManK9]

I keep mine in a soft sided 3 ring binder I got at wally world.  It's made for soft baits, comes with zip lock style bags in it and is fairly cheap.  I only bought one and figured out that the bait monkey had done more shopping that I had though.  Time to go buy a few more.  I'll end up getting one just for worms, and then one or two for everything else.

As for drying out, couldn't tell you I've always kept them in the origional plastic bags.

[Raul]

I have wondered about storing the worms in hard cases too. Do they dry out?

Someone enlighten us!

They won 't dry out in the short term but they will exude the oil, oil that will ooze from the hard tackle box into anything in contact with it, also, some colors like red shad bleed the color staining everything it touches and you end up with multicolored baits. The best is to leave them in their original package ans store the original package in a hard box or a binder. BPS 'spinnerbait binder has 5 pages with two zippered compartments, each compartment can hold 2 packs of baits ( except the largest ones which come in a slightly larger bag ) so each page can hold 4 packs of baits x 5 pages = 20 packs of baits. Also the binder is expandable, all you need is to purchase replacement bags.

[Grey Wolf]

I tried the hard cases but it got too sloppy for me so I just keep them in their original bags.

[KenDammit28]

i use the 3700 boxes(or 370 as BPS calls them) for all the things I use A LOT. I have one box full of different soft frogs, and one that is all stickbaits. Anything else I can't get in those bags gets stored in the zipper compartment in their original packaging. I have things like Trick Worms, surplus stickbaits, craws, lizards, things like that which are more specialized in the zipper compartment and I have a box from walmart that fits in the side pocket of the XPS 370 bag which has things like grubs, trailers, more finesse worms.

thats the ad bag on bps.com but my way of storage is pretty much the same.  I have ALL that I'll need for a day of fishing in that bag...no need to stock up on a 100 bags of one kind of lure at one time.

[Siebert Outdoors]

The best way to fix drying out plastics is fish more.

This year I am putting all of my plastics into ziplock worm bags like they come in or using the bag they come in.  Then from there I will organize them into 1 gal. ziplocs per style.  Thus eliminating almost all of my tackle box's and storage space.  and find stuff easier.

I bought one of those falcons like posted above.  You can cram alot of plastics in them.

[The_Natural]

I keep all my tackle in 3700 cases by bait type.  Plastics are in the origanal bags with the exception of tubes and robo worms.  My tackle bag will hold 13 cases and has two small side pockets.  Tubes are in a case out of the package so its easy too find a color and rig faster.  Robo worms are in a Falcon jerkbait case that will hold 14 different colors.  This makes it easy to select colors more then anything.  Before a go out fishing I will grab the 13 cases that I plan on using the most.  All the other plastics that I might need are pulled out of there cases and put into a falcon worm bag.  Spinnerbaits and buzzbaits are in falcon wallets that are attached to my bag with a caribeaner.  I have my tube jig heads, round ball heads, football heads and shakey heads in 3 small plano boxes seperated by jig head type.  These are placed into a falcon mag worm bag and they fit perfect.  When I get onto the boat I have my rods, 1 tackle bag with 1 spinnerbait and 1 buzzbait wallet attached, and 2 worm bags.  

Some tackle will dry out if they are taken out of the bags and some will bleed.  I'm really thinking about taking my grubs out of the package but I really think they will dry out.

I fish as a co-angler in tournaments and most people can't believe how organized my tackle is.  It is finding a system that fits your needs.  What I do is take a bait at the store any find the case that best fits those baits.  For example my 5in senkos and 4in senkos are in two different types of plano 3700 series boxes.  

I have a very similar system.  I have a few dozen 3700's with different categories of baits, and I just grab 7 or 8 and put them in one of my bags along with a worm binder in each side pocket.  I hand select the soft baits that I put in the worm binders that are condusive to the water and conditions I will be fishing.  

[Munkin]

I leave them in their original bags if I can clearly see what they are or switch to clear bags. Now I take all similar baits like lizards, senkos, etc and put them in a clear 1gallon ziplock freezer bag. This is the best system to carry the most soft plastics in the least amount of space.

Allen