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Hi Guys, I have a large amount of crankbaits and I’m always looking for better ways to store them. Ideas?

send them to me, Ill keep them nice and safe. j/k how do you have them now? I like to keep a few in a plano box then as needed I take them off my pegboard

stick um - 01 September 2010 10:54 PM

send them to me, Ill keep them nice and safe.

haha x2

I have one plano box for them works well. What are you using currently?

buy some of the little rubber bands that people use for braces…..wrap a rubber band around the hooks and throw them in a plano box.
keeps the hooks from getting all tangled together…

I might be a little extreme when it comes to how I store my stuff. I think it has something to do with OCD. But since I have several different places to fish with water anywhere between clear to very stained I separate all my stuff by water clarity and then depths. Since Lake Jordan is where I fish the most, I have several different plano boxes that have my cranks for slightly to moderate stained colors. Then, like I stated earlier, I separate those by depth. Once I know where I’m going to fish that day, I will put those plano boxes in the tackle boxes in my boat. If I am going to fish a shallow cove around some vegetation I know which box to go to. If I want to fish a little deeper off of structure, I have a box for that. Than if I really want to go deep I have a box with everything I have that goes past 16’. Which isn’t much because I haven’t gotten good enough at it to stay with it and do it with any confidence.

I’ve heard some guys use velcro. I use plano boxes and only put one in a space by it’s self. I have a lot of boxes. BH

if you don’t mind having more plano boxes for starage then get those bps hook covers made for cranksbaits and then put them in a plano box. Rattle traps go great in a flip sider plano box.

kyangler - 02 September 2010 08:31 PM

buy some of the little rubber bands that people use for braces…..wrap a rubber band around the hooks and throw them in a plano box.
keeps the hooks from getting all tangled together…

I use the latex bands.  It may take a while to do it the first time, but after that it is easy.  No more pulling out a handful of crankbaits!!

Here is how mine looks with the hooks secured.

http://i1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc373/TKoutdoor/IMAG0027.jpg

Just make sure that you don’t wrap it so tight that it tries to pull the eye out of the bait.

I have a plastic container that a roasted chicken comes in and that is where i store my cranks, lipless and topwaters so i can get it in my backpack. i have it so when you pull a lure out the hooks tangle and pull every lure out so i don’t have to dig down and get hooks in my hand. of course it takes 15 minutes to separate the lures to get the one i want and i get hooks in my hands doing that. hate treble hooks