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Old 03-21-2014, 10:38 PM
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My tackle box before ice fishing season:











My tackle box after ice fishing season:

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Old 03-21-2014, 10:54 PM
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I have more of a mountain of chaos going on...
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Old 03-21-2014, 11:02 PM
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Geez never mind the end of the season. That's what mine looks like twenty minutes after I get to my honey hole. I'm sure it's gremlins cause I turn my back and it looks like a grenade went off in it every trip.
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Old 03-21-2014, 11:05 PM
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what you have to do is keep a max of 3 lures to a three tray tackle box.
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Old 03-21-2014, 11:14 PM
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That's me alright ..
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Old 03-21-2014, 11:44 PM
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Geez never mind the end of the season. That's what mine looks like twenty minutes after I get to my honey hole. I'm sure it's gremlins cause I turn my back and it looks like a grenade went off in it every trip.
me too, lucky if 1/4 of it ends up in the tackle box
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Old 03-21-2014, 11:47 PM
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Half the time I just use one of those 50L blue rubbermaid bins.

Just dont move your hand too quick when you're digging around in there.
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Old 03-22-2014, 12:55 AM
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thats so funny and so true. no matter how hard you try to keep organized it always gets jumbled up.
worst of all is forgetting or "losing" some live or frozen bait in the jumble and 2 weeks later it is rotting and stinking.
on the other hand, i know some anglers whose tackle box always looks like the 2nd pic, but they seem happy enough.
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Old 03-22-2014, 08:11 AM
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only one tackle box!!!????

How do yo fish with so few lures? And where are the bent and rusty lures?

Where are the sinkers, the leaders, the soft baits, the jigs, the bobbers, the , , , , , , , , ,

Doesn't every fisherman have three of more sizes of everything?


Geez I feel like a slob with my suitcase sized tackle box jammed full of twisted leaders and rusty spoons. Not to mention the bailing bucket half full of jigs and Rapala's, knotted line and broken bobbers.

And now! and now there over half of my spoons and lures have no hooks on them. I had to take off all the hooks with barbs so some gung-ho warden wouldn't pack me off to jail.
Yeah I could have pinched the barbs but where those lures get used barbs are legal and it made no sense to pinch the barbs so I could leave the hooks on, if I would have to remove them later to install barbed hooks when I wanted to use those hooks.

I know, I should have just left those lures at home. But then I'd be carrying an empty tackle box, well nearly empty.
And one never knows when one might need that ten inch rapala or that 6 oz jig. Sure there aren't a lot of 30 lb Pike in the Grayling steams out west, but there might be one that got dropped out there by a water bomber.

That's the thing about fishing, one just never knows.
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Old 03-22-2014, 08:22 AM
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Haaaaa I do the same.. stuff all over the place. Just throw my stuff in there and deal with it in spring.


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Old 03-22-2014, 08:42 AM
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I stopped using tackle boxes years ago. Nothing but Plano guide series trays for me!
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Old 03-22-2014, 09:23 AM
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I always blame my kids or the way my buddy unceremoniously heaves it into the back of the truck when he picks me up......pretty sure its me.
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Old 03-22-2014, 09:28 AM
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I stopped using tackle boxes years ago. Nothing but Plano guide series trays for me!
Yup, the only way to go for tackle storage...
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Old 03-22-2014, 01:03 PM
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Yep,yep totally agree on the Plano Guide boxes technique.
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Old 03-22-2014, 04:03 PM
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I stopped using tackle boxes years ago. Nothing but Plano guide series trays for me!
Samesies haha
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Old 03-22-2014, 07:09 PM
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And the best part. Is that you have way to much gear. I know I do. And end up using one hook all trip.
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Old 03-22-2014, 09:38 PM
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And the best part. Is that you have way to much gear. I know I do. And end up using one hook all trip.
yah pretty much the story.
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Old 03-22-2014, 10:40 PM
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We also always seem to need to get more all the time always looking for that extra leverage to increase our odds in landing more or the one particular fish you've been trying for.
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Old 03-22-2014, 11:04 PM
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No ..... it's not just you ....

I have converted both my live wells into large tackle storage lockers.

I find using the plastic trays helps me organize a little ......

I still keep my "other" specialty gear (salmon, trout or other) gear in separate plano trays so I can just switch them out for the next trip.

But yeah .... it still gets messy
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Old 03-23-2014, 06:30 AM
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I like organizing mine the night before a trip out to the lake.. If it didn't get messy I wouldn't be able to do that!
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Old 03-23-2014, 07:16 AM
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Mrs. Omega takes tackle organization to a new extreme.
She has named each and every lure that she owns and using her label maker has a defined and labelled home for each piece of her terminal tackle.
My tackle box is an old daypack. I reach in very gingerly
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Old 03-23-2014, 09:32 AM
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i travel light
got a few boxes and small plano cases and only bring what i need for what i'm targeting
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Old 03-23-2014, 10:20 AM
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For the majority of my "stuff" I use the plano boxes as well. Probably 95% of my fishing is for walleye, and I use various rigs or jigs for the majority of my walleye fishing. Rigs are pretty easy to store, I can hold about 100 in one plano box.

I do have cranks and spoons but do not use them to much, compared to the rigs. Over the years controlled depth fishing for walleye has worked well for me, and that can be difficult to achieve with spoons and cranks unless you spend a lot of hours experimenting with them.

With the exception of slip-bobber fishing most of my presentations are from the bottom up, rather than top down, (cranks, spoons) as controlling the depth off bottom, and having the ability to repeat it easily, have worked well for me.

I have other plano boxes for lake trout and sturgeon fishing.

Like a said, not a big crankbait user, but I have three or four of these for cranks


A few of these for blades, beads, terminal tackle, bobbers, etc.


When I have these all full, there is about a 100 rigs or so here. This is definitely my go-to gear for walleye
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Old 03-23-2014, 11:40 AM
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Ever heard the expression " A clean desk is the sign of a sick mind " ? Same goes for a tackle box . What fun would it be if you could just reach in and find what you need immediately ?
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Old 03-23-2014, 01:02 PM
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Ever heard the expression " A clean desk is the sign of a sick mind " ? Same goes for a tackle box . What fun would it be if you could just reach in and find what you need immediately ?
I do like to keep my tackle in a relatively orderly condition, and that may be the sign of sick mind.....LOL. I fished tournaments for over twenty years and that is when I picked up the "habit" of having things where I could find them.

Without exception it seemed whenever I would loose a rig, or blade whatever is either when the bite just turned on, or about 3 foot swells blew up. I was always the one controlling the boat, so neither of the scenarios I mentioned were a good time to be looking for "stuff".
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Old 03-23-2014, 06:29 PM
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When my box starts to look as if I tryed to organized it , I knock it over . I do that so I can't get POed if someone else does it by mistake .
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