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Location: Belgium | I was wondering what you guys use to store bucktailspinnerbaits( safety-pin style bucktails) at home and in your boat. I am currently using an empty ice-cream box but the hair gets bent and it cracks, the spinnerbaits also tangle all the time. And if there's one thing you don't want when you're fishing, then that's having to waste five minutes sorting out the bucktails because the one you want to use, is always the one that's at the bottom of the box! 
Is there such a thing as a box for larger (up to 9") spinnerbaits? |
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Location: Kalamazoo, MI | Ive heard of a lot of guys using styrofoam coolers. I plan to give it a shot this year. The other option would be plano 3700 boxes, but depending on the length of number your bucktails, you may need quite a few of those! |
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Location: Belgium | so far I've tied about 10 of them, but I am getting the hang of it so I may make a couple more to have several weights and colors. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | B&B and Lakewood have the box you need. Plano has some spinnerbait hanging style boxes too. |
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Location: Madison, WI | The best thing I have found is a bass-style spinnerbait binder with the clear pages. I got mine from Cabelas and I can get two to four large musky size spinnerbaits per page (it has two pockets with a zip top). You can get quite a few of them in there and it doesn't take up alot of space. They just have to be hung and dried dry before you put them in there. They don't get all tangled up either.
Pat
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Location: God's Country......USA..... Western Wisconsin | Dirk, Mallards n Muskies has it right. I obviously use the same binder that he does. Just make sure that you dry your "hair" when you get back from a fishing trip. This holds true no matter what you store your lures in. I will send you a pic ofwhat I use. |
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Location: Belgium | thanks mike! But are you sure they work for 8-9" long spinnerbaits? I'm not tying bass-sized spinnerbaits |
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| Another option for the bucktails is what my new friend Clark H. does - he's filled a plastic milk crate with lengths of 1.5" and 2" diameter clear plastic tubes. The tubes are sitting verticle in the crate. He hangs a bucktail in each tube, and the open air circulates to quickly dry those he's used.
I would shy away from the old styrofoam cooler trick, though it is a common one, because there's too many exposed hooks. Can you imagine falling into one of those coolers? A buddy of mine (Hack) used to do that, he had a big cooler ringed inside and out with all kinds of musky baits. One day his adult, male Rotwieller stuck his head down into the cooler. The dog then lifted his head, felt the 6-10 lures hanging, and then the dog SHOOK his head. My buddy ended up calling the fire department to come out and help hold down the dog while he cut the many lures out. What a mess. |
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| Thanks to a MuskieFIRST discussion board tip,
I cut out slots into a standard-size tray (it's the 4-slot type open-slot tray) Anyway, the big spinnerbaits then can lay flat with the hair on one side and the blades on the other side. I think I have 10-12 of the rad-dog/rattletail-sized spinnerbaits in that tray.
I also cut smaller slots into the bucktail box, the longest bucktails' end hooks take the slot on the edge, and shorter ones get the inner slots. This keeps the bucktails hooks in place, because the slots are snug for a single hook of a big treble.
Now if I could only convince myself to throw some of the great new hair I bought this winter...
Have a groovy day,
Papa Joe
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Location: Belgium | thanks for the great tips guys!! |
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Location: Louisville, KY. | Plano makes a tray just like PapaJoe describes that I use for musky size safety pin spinner baits. |
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| Go with the Lake Woods box pricey, but nice.
Musk. |
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