Winter Boat Clean Out

[mcipinkie]

Anyone else out there taken all the tackle out of their boat and started sorting out? Cabin fever is setting in early this year.

I got all the 3700's and all the sacks of lures that I bought this year out of the boat and started organizing the other night.

I am primarily a jig fisherman, but think I have gone overboard this year.

In skirted jigs only, not counting plain jigs for grubs, hula grubs, etc., I had 198 in the boat. All the way from 1/8 to 7/8 ounce in every color imaginable. I'm sick with the disease.

Anyone else as bad as me?

[flechero]

I hate to admit it but I am every bit as bad as you are... except mine is with soft plastics, which I fish most of the time. Last year when I cleaned out my storage boxes in the boat, I filled 2 trash bags with soft plastics. 1 full bag was just lizards.

"Hi, my name is keith and I have a problem." ;D

[Spencer W]

me and my fishing partner are getting together to go through our gear too, and of course i started making a list for next year. Hopefully the wife gets my new tackle bag for x-mas  I have a problem with crankbaits though, i probably have a dozen new ones waiting to be opened and put in boxes.  Had to get while they were on sale, or at least thats what the bait monkey suggested.

[Sam]

I have the majority of my tackle in storage boxes in my upstairs office and plan to take the rest of the stuff out of the boat so I can take a day, watch football, and organize everything.

I do this every year and I totally screw it all up during the season.

I can't find stuff that I know I have; I lose stuff that I later find in the garage or on the boat; but I DON'T THROW ANYTHING AWAY.

Man, is having a lot of fishing stuff fun or what?