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Location: Kaukauna, Wisconsin | I was wondering what you do for in boat lure storage. Such as putting tubes in baitwells/livewells or something else. If someone has pictures they would be cool to see. Anything would be greatly appreciated. |
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| I am re-doing my boat lure storage that I did last year. I am improving it to hold more lures and I am also reinforcing it better. I will send pics here soon. It is a work in progress so it will be good to see. Tom |
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| I built frames and put them in both the rod lockers in my 618T. I emptied out all my tackle into them and have plenty of room to spare. I think i have room for almost 200 lures. The frames are made 1X1 boards with sheets of plywood in so that the lures dont get tangled too badly. I made a frame to fit the top and the bottom of the locker and boxed in the frame with plywood and then put pieces of plywood in crossways every 2 1/2 inches. They are heavy and were a lot of work but they work great and keep my lures very organized. |
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Location: Kaukauna, Wisconsin | Keep the ideas coming and thanks for the ones that I can now try!! |
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| O.K., I took some pics. I am no master carpenter so this is what I did. I have an Alumacraft Navigator 165 Tiller. I built a box and carpeted it so that it would be the same height as my front casting deck and then I cut PVC gutters to fit and glued them together in groups of 10. I can get about 2 lures in each and the whole thing is still pretty light. I also made a couple extra sections of ten for my extra lures so, if I want, I can swap out whole sections. I also made a smaller section with a seperate lid for a cooler storage area. I hope this helps. Later, tom
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | Muskycrazy, call me at 920-954-6350 (evenings before 9:00pm) and I can show you what i did with my old boat. It is sold, but i still have it in storage. It is in De Pere, but I will take you up there as long as we can swap musky stories, and a beer.
Rob
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | I have an Alumacraft Tournament Pro 185 and what I did was to ask Dan at Dunwright Tackle to sell me some of his lure tubes that he uses to make his butt seat pedestal tube storage rack but not to have them glued together. When I got them I glued them together myself in the following pattern. The x's represent the tubes and the space between the xx and the x aren't glued together.
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The single colmun of 4 is shorter so the latch for the compartment lid will turn. Also by not glueing the colmuns between the xx and the x I can then pull the tubes out of the compartment and take everything out while leaving the lures still hanging in the tubes.That way if I have to take the boat in for service or leave it somewhere I'm not sure about gear theft, I can just pull the colmuns of tubes out of the boat. I don't have a digital camera so I can't take a picture to post. The only measureing I had to do was the height of the tube, they were a little to tall and had to be cut down about an inch if memory serves. Very easy assembily, clamp to tube together and add a bead of liquid glue between them. Forget what the glue was, but it's a clear liquid that looks like water. Dan at Dunwright Tackle can give you the deatails. A lot faster and easier than all the cutting, measureing, and assembily of the other methods. The glue sets up in seconds. So assembly should take about an hour or so.
I can get about 4 regular sized Phantom lures in a tube or about 5 of the six inch Phantoms, to give you an idea of the number of baits that you can put into this setup. Of course larger and smaller baits and baits with lips, or wings, or other attachments take up more tube space.
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | Somehow the pattern of x's got messed up when it posted. I'll try again.
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Again the shorter column is so the hatch latch has room to turn and lock
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | Crap is screwed up again. XX then a single tube then another double tube. So xx x xx |
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | The shorter column is in the middle.
Um, Sworral you need to have an edit function key so we can go back and edit posts. Thanks |
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| fishpoop-
It's there. Got to post, not the post screen but the actual post itselt, and look in the upper right corner. If you are logged in the same as when you posted it, there will be an edit tab in the upper right corner right next to the reply and quote tabs.
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Location: Athens, Ohio | I use the same downspouts as Muskie53's in the former live well of my BassTracker. I took the time to drill and rivet them together and added a string on each side so I can puull the unit if needed. I much prefer to hang wet baits than put them in a plastic box, especially in the heat of summer. m |
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| some great ideas here...thanks |
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | Good ideas guys. I'm rigging a new boat right now and am building custom deck extensions of which one will be lockable tackle storage. Been debating between the downspout tubes or the dunwrights, I've also thougth about buying a Flambeau box and removing the inserts and cutting the length of them down to fit my dimensions.
Question for Musky53. Where did you get that piano hinge for your deck lid with the bends in it?
I just had a regular hinge welded to a peice of alum. angle because I could find one like that, nor could I find one wide enough to put it in a brake and bend it like the one you used.
BTW... Alumacrafts Navigators are once nice looking rig. I really like the interior layout, very similar to my old Ranger 690 and current 618.
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Location: searchin for 50 | I was also wondering where you bought your hinge . I have a navigator too. that looks like something I'll be doing in the next couple of weeks. Iwas wondering if you had dimensions. you can pm or post makes no difference. Thanks  |
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Location: Kaukauna, Wisconsin | Thanks for all of the great ideas so far!! Muskynightmare I might have to take you up on the offer, but not the beer since I am not of age and for a while since I am in school and have baseball going on. |
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| where do you get the large plastic downspouts?
not at Menards and not too many other options
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Location: Tinley Park. Fish Cen IL. Bass & Vilas Cty.Muskie | I just pull out my inserts of one of my muskie boxes(flambo?) and take a cross section out and put them in my back cooler of my Ranger R82(bassboat of course). I think I had about 80 baits in there last year. I think I can get 2 baits a slot and up to 3/4 bucktails depending on size.Not as pretty as the others(nice job) but functional and cheap. |
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Location: nappanee IN | i only use my flambeau for storing baits, stupid dividers grab the bait every stinking time. about ready to get rid of it but it's the only place to store my 12'' t-bones and chaes new minnow baits.. if i rember right does'nt sombody make a better insert for flabeau's? thanks guys |
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| bblack, I got the downspouts at Home Depot.
Raider and Mark, I got the hinges at a place called Kendor Marine in Franklin WI. It is located just south of Milwaukee. Here is there contact info: Kendor Corp. 5721 West Ryan Rd. Franklin, WI 53132 414-421-4370. I don't think they have a website but you might want to just call them. This is a real cool place to visit if you have not been. Hope this helps, Later, Tom |
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | Thanks,
I know where they're at, I grew up down in that part of WI. |
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Location: searchin for 50 | Thanks for the info. I'll definitely be making a trip there. |
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Location: Gurnee, Illinois | I originally had some dividers made up for a custom box I had in my old boat. I called Dave Hasselberg at Clear Vision Systems with the dimensions of the box, and he custom made some dividers out of lexan, and they turned out awesome. I tried the Clear Vision Website so I could provide a link, but it doesn't seem to exist anymore. I think I have Dave's address if anyone is interested, but I am not positive he is still making these. Anyway, I sold my old boat and bought a crestliner fish hawk. I cut the dividers so I could put some in one of my Plano tackle boxes and some in the center storage compartment of my fish hawk. Works real nice, and you can see the lures due to the clear lexan. A few dollars more than the downspouts, but worth it in my opinion. See pictures below.
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Location: Gurnee, Illinois | Try pictures again.
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