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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | It's time to move on to a bigger and (hopefully) better house and we're in full-on declutter mode. I'm trying to get my fishing room/garage/office/every drawer in the house packed and have the problem of only having tackle boxes for about 1/5 of my baits. Anyone out there have any good ideas for transporting baits in a way where they're not going to turn into one big mess? I was thinking of rolling them in paper towel and stacking, but that seems like it has a great chance for being a mess. |
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Location: N.FIB | maybe go to the hardware store and get 2-3 big storge containers and somehow put some inserts in them,maybe somebody who work there has a good idea of what to use. |
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| This would be time consuming but take the hooks off and then wrap the baits and put them in a box to move them |
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| news paper would be a better option than paper towel. |
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| I'd rubber band the hooks together on all your hardbaits and just toss them in a box, i think Jeremy Smith has a video on the Linder Angling Edge tip page showing what i mean. |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | My wife has some cool totes for storing Christmas ornaments. They have multiple layers of cardboard dividers. It would be really easy to modify one or make your own to fit lures.
http://www.containerstore.com/reviews/movingShippingStorage/holiday... |
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| Wrap them in newpaper, put them in a box. It isn't hard. |
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| Rubber bands or put packing peanuts on the hooks and put them in a bin. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Go to a liqour store and get some boxes booze comes in. Different sizes with cardboard dividers. When Shawn Mahar brings his Hosebaits to MCI meetings for sale thats how he transports them. |
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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | We're talking about 500-750 baits here. Newspaper sounds like it may be the way to go. |
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Location: Otsego, MN | I'd go news paper and just throw them all in boxes and move them out. It doesn't have to be pretty just get them safely to your new home. Congrats on moving my wife and I are trying to break even on our house we bought at the "wrong time".
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| Wrapping and unwrapping each bait will likely take as long as untangling them at your destination. I'd just fill a 30 gallon tote or two with baits and worry about it at the new house, and regret it later that I didn't wrap them........
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Location: On the Niagara River in Buffalo, NY | You can toss them all in one box,let them tangle all up,send them to me,then I will have something to do for March untangling them, then in May I can bring them neatly wrapped out your way TO FISH! |
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| Lean on tfoot. He's good for a move or two, especially if you let him drive your go fast! |
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Location: MN | Muskie Treats - 2/25/2013 9:22 AM
We're talking about 500-750 baits here. Newspaper sounds like it may be the way to go.
And those are just the ones you don't have storage for? |
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Location: Lakeville, MN | i had a guy ship me a bunch of lures, each was wrapped in a piece of printer paper taped. it worked good at keeping it all seperated but thats a lot of time for that many lures! |
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| How do you have them stored now? Hanging on hooks in your garage. |
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | Your problem isn't moving it's You Have Too Many Baits!! I still like the plastic totes with cut up downspouts, for $20 you have a huge storage box, and with careful fitting you can most likely get all those baits, (Way Too Many Treats) into 2-3 of these. They stack and store. Plus once you start hanging them on the wall at the new place you can retro fit one into the vehicle for those travel days. Hand load it up. But for Pete's sake sell some of those Treat's!! |
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | After thought...forgot who I was talking to, like you are going to take the time to cut downspout tubes...Hvy duty Totes, straight walled, baits, cardboard, baits cardboard baits cardboard. layer them up, pop the lid on it'll get you to where you are going. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | You can always try "storing" them in my garage during the process and possible season... 
Other than that id use Newspaper, and those giant rubbermaid bins. You can fit a ton of baits in em and not have to worry bout them as much. newspapaer and rubbermaid...
Edited by FAT-SKI 2/25/2013 12:39 PM
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| My garage is also available for storage. |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | BMuskyX - 2/25/2013 9:39 AM
I'd just fill a 30 gallon tote or two with baits and worry about it at the new house, and regret it later that I didn't wrap them.
This is what I'd do. toss them in and untangle when you are ready to hang them again. Only exception would be with rubber., keep them separate by wrapping them to keep from bleeding colors together and possible eating away. |
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Location: Madison Wi. Chain | I saw something helpful at the Madison show this weekend. Go to the liquor store, get the empty boxes for cases of bottled beer. They will often have cardboard slots that protect the bottles from colliding with each other. These are perfect for hanging baits, after hanging the baits, close box and carry away. BG |
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Location: Watertown, MN | we can all stop and Hold(take) 10 baits off your hands till ya move! |
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| Liquor divider boxes work perfect if you can find enough of them?
Otherwise invite us all over to drink |
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Location: Eau Claire,WI | packaging peanuts are the way to go,Simple fast and effective. |
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| i would use some 5 gallon buckets and hang them on the edge. I use one every time i go on a week long trip and then put the lures away when I get home. You can separate lure types by bucket. works well for me and they're cheap and multipurpose. |
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| ^^^I like that idea, but it's not very efficient space wise. You could run a few wires through the bucket and make some more hanging area though. |
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Location: north central wisconsin | I moved a couple years ago(across town) and had the exact same issue. I ended up using 5 gallon buckets as mentioned above. I organized and hung baits all the way around the inside and outside of each of several buckets and set them all up in the front of the moving truck on the area above the cab, then packed things against that section to lock them all in. They were easily untangled and took much less time than wrapping each individual lure. I then kept them in/on those buckets until I had my ceiling storage racks built and installed in my security protected, heavily armed man cave.
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| Get several rolls of the brown hard paper hand towels like you find in a restaurant/bar bathroom machine or at a Fed Ex/UPS store for shipping and just start rollin' em in.
"My wife has some cool totes for storing Christmas ornaments" said no man ever. |
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| I'm thinking anything you use to wrap them is going to create a bigger mess to deal with when you unpack them than you'd have if you threw them all in a giant rubbermaid tub or 6 and untangled them when you got there. Then you have an excuse to spend 4 hours in the garage unpacking and organizing lures instead of farting around with dishes and bras and purses and shoes and #*#*. This is good for both of you. She doesn't want to know how many lures you have and you don't want to know how many pairs of shoes she has. |
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| similar to goose's idea but id use a roll of foam and just roll them up in to big rolls. i wouldn't wrap each one individually but rather keep rolling them in one continuous roll.
http://www.uline.com/BL_856/Foam?keywords=Foam%20Rolls
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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | mtcook16 - 2/25/2013 9:00 AM
Muskie Treats - 2/25/2013 9:22 AM
We're talking about 500-750 baits here. Newspaper sounds like it may be the way to go.
And those are just the ones you don't have storage for?
Yes |
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Location: Maryland | Whatever you choose good luck... I moved about 200 lures a couple years ago and i took one of the huge rubbermaid totes. Drilled holes in the lip of it all the way around. Then 1 bought 4 square 5 gallon buckets and places them inside the rubbermaid and hung all my lures in them and the rubbermaid... I got everything at Hope depot & walmart. very inexpensive |
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Location: Price County WI | I use paper lunch bags, slide the lure in fold the bag over and stack them in a box. |
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| Muskie Treats - 2/25/2013 8:24 AM
It's time to move on to a bigger and (hopefully) better house and we're in full-on declutter mode. I'm trying to get my fishing room/garage/office/every drawer in the house packed and have the problem of only having tackle boxes for about 1/5 of my baits. Anyone out there have any good ideas for transporting baits in a way where they're not going to turn into one big mess? I was thinking of rolling them in paper towel and stacking, but that seems like it has a great chance for being a mess.
I just moved back in November and moved 1000's of baits.. Used mostly 18 to 22 gallon totes.. A layer of baits then a layer of new paper all the up the tote till it was filled.. Don't use news paper on any soft plastic baits,ink will bleed right into them.. |
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| Just sell them. |
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Location: deephaven mn | 4X8 sheet of rigid styrofoam , 1-1/2" should do 2" would be more rigid
there is 48 square feet i would say about 100 baits per sheet, fast hook on system
1 sheet 6 trips (sorry i do not have one in my garage) |
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Ideas for packing up baits for a move