Tackle Box

[Coon]

With all the jigs and plastics we accumulate, what do you guys recomend to put them in as far as ice fishing goes? Is there any one box I have to have?

[MASON38]

I store all my panfish jigs in bass worm binders. Each one has 7 pages, and I place the jigs in foam pads. When I go out, I put an assortment together in my LA Bug Luggage. My plastics are in a Plano 3600 tray. My walleye jigs, swimbaits and spoons are in 5 Plano 3700 trays. Usually when I head out for certain day, I load up a spare 3700 and only take one tray with me. My Pike and Laker jigs,etc. are in 4 Plano 3600 trays, and they go into a small Plano bag out onto the ice. I have a small Plano 3400 with all my terminal tackle that goes into a pocket in my Ice Armor suit.

Is there one box, completely up to you. The Bug Luggage is sweet, and its hard to go through 50 or sixty jigs, much less the 140 or so that fit in them. If you know what you are going after that one day, its easy to break it up. If you are after a bunch of things, draw from what you have and hopefully you can keep the weight down.

good luck

[Jigginfireman]

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With all the jigs and plastics we accumulate, what do you guys recomend to put them in as far as ice fishing goes? Is there any one box I have to have?

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Coon-Have to agree with Mason also with the Bug Luggage. Holds your jigs in place and really don't have to fish around for just one. They are compact and will fit into just about any pocket you might have. I have 2 larger ones and a small one for just Purest.

As far as plastics go I like my waterproof Plano box. Not sure of the model # but picked it up at Gander for a couple of dollars. The worst thing you can do with plastics is put different colors together. They will bleed into one another and make some funky colors. So keep them seperate and they will be good. My opinions... Hope this helps.

[hanson]

Great advice guys!

I'm with these guys as well when it comes to tackle organization. Its all a part of protecting your investment and staying organized at the same time. Plastic Plano trays of various sizes store everything I have, divided up by tackle type and species. I use a Cabelas soft tackle bag to put the Plano boxes in and the rest of my ice fishing stuff like headlamp, nailclipper, tazer, tape measure, scale, matches, lantern mantels, etc, etc stays in the tackle bag all winter. The tackle interchanges but the important stuff stays in the bag.

I've got a ton of other ideas but not the time to post them right now. If you can figure out the Search function, I have posted many photos in the past of some of my tackle boxes.

[IcemanMN]

Fly boxes are great for storing jigs. I have one for all my glows and one for non-glows. Then I use plano boxes for my flash lures and swim baits. Those are seperated by glow and non-glow. I am building a tray now to hold the plano boxes in my portable to make them easy to grab and find the right one.

[Scott M]

What's the box Thorne Bros. is selling now? Rose Bush or Rose Creek or something? Looks pretty nice. I have been looking at those tackle pouches for a few years now...might have to give that a try.

[Matt Johnson]

It's a Rose Creek box. Very similar to the Fox Box except $5-9 less and it's also a sllightly deeper box. I've already rigged up two of them for the upcoming ice fishing season.

[Bruce Mosher]

Don't forget about the "Tackle Pouches" by Today's Tackle.

Their are 3 sizes. A (small for hooks or Panfish jigs) B (for larger jigs and small spoons) C (for chubby darters, angeleye spoons etc.) I also store splitshots, quick snaps, tie knots in them. They are made of thick clear plastic that bends to form a pouch with velcro to secure everything. They fit into plano boxes or in your pockets. You can also wrap a pouch around your rod to close up a jig so the rod doesn't tangle up with everything.

Bruce Mosher

[cold one sd]

I bought one of those Roly Poly things that they used to advertise on tv. It is full of compartments and rolls up and latches closed. I can keep a ton of stuff in it and can roll it out on the bunk in my wheel house. I use it mostly to store my ice jigs and if I lose a couple I just transfer some to my smaller jig box. The nice part is that it has lots of room and doesn't take up much space. I think they were advertised as a sewing box.