help-bucktail/spinnerbait box

[BIG]

....any clever ideas out there on homemade muskysized spinnerbait and/or bucktail boxes
that go into the boat.......thanks..

[DUCKJ]

COOLER, ITS CHEEP, LIGHT AND IT COMES WITH A HANDLE. JUST PUT A COUPLE HOLES IN THE BOTTOM TO LET THE WATER OUT.
HAPPY HUNTING
DUCK

[Biggestfish]

Here is my take on it. Why do you want to mess around trying to make something???? Us muskie fisherman spend $100 to $200+ for a rod and reel. Then they get us $10+ a pop for lures. And then how much $$$$ do you have in your boat and motor set-up $1,000?, $10,000?, $20,000+. My point is that if you can afford to go muskie fishing you can afford to go down to Fleet Farm and buy the hanging bait box they have for $29.99. Then you are done, you have the box and it looks good in your boat. I have one and it was the best $30 bucks I have spent since I started muskie fishing. Now grab that box and lets go fishing.

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Just Having Fun!
Love to Fish.

[musky hunter]

Go to a supermarket with a bakery and ask for a bucket. (I used an egg yoke white plastic bucket, about 2 gallon size). Then go to the Menards, Home Depot, etc, and buy several flourescent light covers for about $1 ea. Cut the round plastic to length and fit into the pail. These make great lure holders in a bucket. The poor man's musky box!

[Guest]

i use a rubbermaid container that is tall enough so my baits don't lay in the bottom. drill holes about an 1 1/2" apart all the way around. the cover will still fit and you can put some other gear in the bottom ie.. jaw spreaders, leaders, clippers, ect.

[Guest]

Tip-up

What do you do about the water that collects in the bottom? It makes good rust.

[Guest]

clayton

All the water that collects in the bottom? its a little something that i like to call evaporation. and what little water does get in the bottom has not rusted my aluminum jaw speaders or anything else. as far as the baits go, they hang on the side so unless there is two inches of water in there it makes no difference.

[Biggestfish]

Here is the tip of the day....aluminum doesn't rust.

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Just Having Fun!
Love to Fish.

[Guest]

Musky Hunter-
I tried your light covers. Didn't work. The only thing I had that would go in the tubes was a 9" Suick, and that was like trying to put Rosie O'Donnell in Halle Berry's Oscar dress. A 10" Jake was right out. I ended up throwing out the tubes and going with a plain ol' five gallon bucket. A cheap styrofoam minnow bucket might work better.

[Guest]

One thing i've tried was a waterproof shotgun shell carrying box (around 10.00 at a fleet store) Then over to the plexi glass isle and get a piece of thinner stuff. We cut out a smaller interlocking version like the big plano boxes. It worked great for the large spinner baits/ bucktails. Havn't tried it on stick baits ect. those go in the big plano box. As far as drying them out I just open up the box when i get home in the garage and by the next day it's dry. We quit using open air boxes, Have had way to many close calls with a livley fish in the boat. I don't need any extra hooks out in the open, it's easy enough to get hooked with the ones in there mouth. lol

[This message has been edited by bigpike54 (edited 08-01-2002).]

[stephendawg]

I know the 5gal bucket idea is an old one but I like the way it works for me right now at least. I added about 5" of "Sacrete" so it stays in place and also slipped in 2- 2" pieces of schedule 40 pvc about 8" tall spaced an inch or so apart (while the cement was wet of course!) at the center for jaw spreaders and long handled needle nose pliers and also made a "T" handle set in the cement as well for a handle to carry the bucket. I also took my scroll saw and cut slits in the rim every 1/2" or so to place the hooks in. This keeps them from sliding around the rim. If you space the baits out properly you can lift each bait out by simply grabbing the body of the bait and rotating the hook upwards before lifting it out of the slot. I currently have about 12 plugs and 4 bucktails hanging on it. I will probably make myself a wooden box with dividers this winter because I'm getting too many baits on the bucket and frankly, I'm getting a little tired of occasionally hooking my pant legs with the baits.

Dawg

[BIG]

.....thanks for the tips guys - I have been in Alaska the last 3 weeks - saved money for the trip 'makin' stuff for fishing'...
Rubbermaid guy - what size is the rubbermaid container??

[Guest]

big, its about 20" x 12" x 12"deep. menards and target have a large selection for only a few bucks each.

[Guest]

Besides using a Rubber-maid container, I got a bunch of tennis ball cans that you can fit two or three baits in. I like them with the lids cause if I am going out for only and hour or so I can just grab the can instead of the whole box and not have anymore to stumble over when hooking into a fish. You can get tennis ball cans at any high school, or even public courts with a can recycle receptical.