07-28-2003, 02:14 PM
[cool]The special boxes work great. They are designed to let the spinnerbait hang down from the hook, which is hung in a slotted crosspiece. They are bulky, though, and if you take a bunch, it can use up some space in the boat. These are better suited to keeping on your shelves at home, for keeping your lures organized between trips.
Before a trip, you can pick out a few of the ones you plan to use and just lay them in a flat plastic food storage container...like a Tupperware sandwich box. These fit in vest pockets or in tackle boxes, and are big enough to handle several spinnerbaits. I would also recommend a separate box, with compartments, to take extra skirts and spinner blades, for on the water changes. A few extra split rings, swivels, stinger hooks and other accessories are good to have too.
PLASTIC DAMAGE: Most soft plastics have solvents and plasticizers that eat into hard plastics like styrenes. Always keep your plastic baits in a polyethylene box, in compartments...separated by colors. Especially do not put chartreuses or motor oil plastics in with anything else you do not want colored. Also, keep painted jig heads out of the plastics. Unless they are epoxy paints, the plastic will destroy the paint and ruin the plastics too.
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Before a trip, you can pick out a few of the ones you plan to use and just lay them in a flat plastic food storage container...like a Tupperware sandwich box. These fit in vest pockets or in tackle boxes, and are big enough to handle several spinnerbaits. I would also recommend a separate box, with compartments, to take extra skirts and spinner blades, for on the water changes. A few extra split rings, swivels, stinger hooks and other accessories are good to have too.
PLASTIC DAMAGE: Most soft plastics have solvents and plasticizers that eat into hard plastics like styrenes. Always keep your plastic baits in a polyethylene box, in compartments...separated by colors. Especially do not put chartreuses or motor oil plastics in with anything else you do not want colored. Also, keep painted jig heads out of the plastics. Unless they are epoxy paints, the plastic will destroy the paint and ruin the plastics too.
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