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Location: Bloomington,MN | What does everyone use to store your dawgs and other big rubber baits? Right now I'm using a big plano but that is getting filled up and i want something i can fit everything into. Any suggestions? |
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| I hang mine on a rack. I just make sure that all there's plenty of "tail" laying on the level below it to take the weight so the rubber doesn't sag off the harness. Maybe that's not a concern, but I've got some that have been hanging untouched for more than a year and don't want the rubber to sag or get a memory to it. Hang anything and it'll take that shape eventually unless you support it from below. |
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Location: Land of the Musky | Big open 3700 Plano boxes. Try to keep "like" baits together and then I also try to keep similar colors together. NEVER keep the Lifelike or Formula-X baits with regular plastisol baits. The Formula-X baits will destroy your other lures. Also never keep any jig worms or other plastic beads with your plastisol baits. I also try to keep my plastisol baits out of the heat as much as possible. Just keeps any color mixing to a minimum. Most baits will not bleed colors but some will. I don't think the musky care but you might. Long term storage, just put up a few 1"x1"x10' pieces of wood in the garage or basement and just hang them.
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| What about lures like Suzy Suckers? I'd prefer to have them hanging, but I don't want to take the hook out of the body. Any suggestions? |
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| If they don't fall apart when you're throwing them, they ain't gonna fall apart when you hang them. |
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| Just Encase makes the best Muskie boxes.. You can hang all your big rubber baits. Planos will ruin your rubber baits.. |
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Location: Land of the Musky | "Planos will ruin your rubber baits.."
What???? I have had my rubber and non-rubber baits in Planos for years. And I mean YEARS. 20+ for some and not one has had any issues. High heat, -20F, etc. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Tackle Industries - 1/25/2012 8:54 PM
"Planos will ruin your rubber baits.."
What???? I have had my rubber and non-rubber baits in Planos for years. And I mean YEARS. 20+ for some and not one has had any issues. High heat, -20F, etc.
Ya, James, your right..... I've used Planos for yrs. with no problems..
Why are "guests" generally full of Crap?
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Location: MN | I purchased a large plastic Rubbermaid tote/storage container and drilled holes on the rim to hang the hooks. I can hang many Pounders, Mag Dussas, Intimidators, 14" Jakes, etc. The tails don't hang perfectly straight, part of the tails do lay on the bottom. Overall works well, I rotate out what baits I carry depending on where I am fishing. In the the following pics I have mostly trolling baits but there are some Pounders (Lemontail, Black) and Monster Medussas (Walleye, White). For reference, the top pic has 14" Jakes, 10" Jakes and a 10" Believer next to Lemontail. There are times I'll have the whole thing full of just rubber.
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Location: Michigan | Either Plano 3731 boxes or the Flambeau 9007. I use the Planos for storing at home and the the Flambeau for taking baits into the boat. I can get 6 pounders in each and store the baits without hooks. Here is a picture of each:
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Location: Chesterton, Indiana | Plano's are the pick to click for me. Check menards or other hardware stores firsts they usually best places like bass pro by 30-40%. That way you can save and buy more musky stuff! |
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Location: Latitude 41.3016 Longitude 88.6160 | I'm lucky to only live 30mins from the Plano Outlet store in Plano IL, I buy all my boxes there at a greart price. Plano boxes are just as good as Encase boxes for plastic baits unless U are looking for a box to stand on or to extend the front deck of your boat, then Encase is what U want. |
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Location: MN | Guest - 1/27/2012 11:02 AM
The sun is gonna ruin those baits your storing in totes.. Better call James for more..
Tote fits perfectly under my casting deck, unless the sun can penetrate that the baits are fine. |
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Location: Northern Illinois | I don't have as many of the big soft rubber and plastic baits as some of you. I store them in Plano boxes that contain mostly only other plastics/rubbers and keep the tails away from any lure bodies or blades. Some soft plastic tails have some sort of chemical on them to make/keep them soft that will eat away paint or clear coat if left laying on a nicely painted lure. I found this out the hard way... |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Plano boxes are OK if you keep them out of the direct mid summer sun (fading of some bait colors, not melting) and don't mix colors. I prefer my Just Encase for a couple reasons, all my baits fit in one, and I they store individually and well in any season; plus I can store a pile of soft plastics right in the same case with gliders and hard plastic baits and have them all at the ready.
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| [QUOTEGuest - 1/25/2012 7:56 PM
Just Encase makes the best Muskie boxes.. You can hang all your big rubber baits. Planos will ruin your rubber baits..
total bs!
plano is the best and stop telling bs just to force guys bying overpriced crap,even if they are sponsor of m1.
btw i think product bashing is not supossed to be allowed,or maybe it's allowed just when you do it vs a sponsor? |
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Location: MN | Guest, you call out the other guest for product bashing, which he was a little, then you call Just Encase overpriced crap. Gotta love it. |
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