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Location: Chicagoland area! | Fishing in rainy conditions how do u guys keep the tackle boxes on your boat dry? Mine always get soaked and have to dry them after.. Tried a plastic bag but helped very little. |
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Location: Chicagoland area! | I have both lakewood and plano, lots of the time water, allows water to seep in and soaks the lures, which if not dried = discoloration and rust, was thing about spraying them with a water proofer or fabric protector to help any other ideas |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | I use a milk case with plastic downspout in wet weather rain in the top out the bottom and lures hang to dry. If your going to use Plano's or other covered boxes lures better be dry before they go back in. |
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | Mike, use a milk crate with pieces of down spout for dividers and a perforated rubber mat on the bottom of the crate. That way your baits can get rained on all day long, and the water will have little affect on them. Any rain will simply run through and out the bottom of the crate and when it stops your baits will air dry because everything open. I've used this method for some years now and it really works. |
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| Lures need to dry out before going back into the planos, but you can help your cause by putting some of Flameau's Z-Rust or whatever that blue plastic stuff is called. I started drying lures out and using that Z-rust stuff a couple years ago and don't have issues any more. FYI, even if you put lures in the plastic trays dry they still rust due to condensation. Adding the Z-rust stuff solved that issue. |
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Location: Chicagoland area! | pictures please!  |
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Location: Victoria,MN | From what I have seen and heard Justencase is the way to go. Keep the lid shut and the lures will stay dry. Hopefully I will be picking mine up soon! |
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| Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I keep my Plano boxes in a Bass Pro Extreme boat bag when in the river boat. It's waterproof and keeps everything dry, but you may want to wipe it down after a storm.
http://www.basspro.com/Bass-Pro-Shops-Extreme-Boat-Bags/product/102...
I don't dry my lures before putting them in boxes. I just open them up and let them air dry when I get home. |
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| I'm usually okay if I open my boxes when I get home and let them air dry. Only exception is bucktails. Those I take out of the box and hang them or else they take forever to dry. |
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Location: Maryland | I fished in a real nice rain storm yesterday and all my lures in my planos got absolutely soaked. So i got home last night and took all the lures out and hung them out to dry and now i have to whipe out the inside of the boxes since they both have a 1/4 inch water in the bottom. Should i drill holes in the bottom of them so the water drains? also is there anything i can spray in them to make them more water proof?
But it was all worth it. First fish of the year on a sea cow.
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Location: Okoboji | T-Bone - 4/21/2012 6:08 PM
From what I have seen and heard Justencase is the way to go. Keep the lid shut and the lures will stay dry. Hopefully I will be picking mine up soon!
lucky bassss tarddd |
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| I 2nd the milk crates with downspouts. I have 4 of these that i use and the baits just dry out eventually. I have a large plano as well, and if you put them away wet, they can be wet for up to a week. |
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| Themuskyman... my plano box are in a cabelas bag and i would find water in plano boxes that i did even use that day. So i drilled 4 1/4 dia holes in the corners and now my boxes stay dry. So it worked for me. |
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Location: Hugo, MN | I have a couple Bib's Boxes that I bring out in the boat. They are like Just Encase boxes, made of polycarbonate, but don't have lids. If it rains the baits get wet. They dry out just fine on the way home or in the garage. There are also drain holes in each slot. Doesn't make sense to me why people try so hard to keep their baits dry. I thought they were supposed to get wet?
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