new tackle box
#1
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: New Goucester Maine
Posts: 264
new tackle box
my old tackel box just broke as i was stocking up for the new season and i need to get a new one. my ond one was a plano hard taxkle box with three torage trays and i liked it but i see the newer soft taxkle boxes are becoming popular. which one do you guys prefer adn why?. oh. this if for freshwater, mostly bass fishing.
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Slower Lower Delaware 1st State
Posts: 1,776
RE: new tackle box
redsox,
Can't remember the Plano Series #. Sounds like you have the same series. I have 2 Plano's,both are double hip style boxes. Latches on side, 3 trays on each side when you open. I love em. Had at least 5 in past 15-20 yrs. You flip it open and you got 6 trays and a nice belly for worms bags and misc.That series of Plano is getting hard to find around here. All the big fancy boxes and soft packs are flooding the market.
Soft packs are nice,but your always pulling out plastic boxes to get to bottom box with that lure you want. I use soft packs for light salt water fishing and hunting. If they get wet they are subject to mould and can get a little skunky inside. With the Plano,if it rains you simply close the box. My .02
Can't remember the Plano Series #. Sounds like you have the same series. I have 2 Plano's,both are double hip style boxes. Latches on side, 3 trays on each side when you open. I love em. Had at least 5 in past 15-20 yrs. You flip it open and you got 6 trays and a nice belly for worms bags and misc.That series of Plano is getting hard to find around here. All the big fancy boxes and soft packs are flooding the market.
Soft packs are nice,but your always pulling out plastic boxes to get to bottom box with that lure you want. I use soft packs for light salt water fishing and hunting. If they get wet they are subject to mould and can get a little skunky inside. With the Plano,if it rains you simply close the box. My .02
#3
RE: new tackle box
I like the new soft side products that are out now. I always used the plano series 3 tray open box when I had a larger boat and downrigged for Lakers and Salmon. I just left it open and all my tackle was there for the picking. Now that I fish out of a bass boat the floor space is limited and the soft side with 3600 type boxes works well. I put marking tape on the outside edge of the boxes with the description of the baits that are inside. Top water is in 1 box and jerk baits are in another, tubes and worms etc. I stand the inner boxes on end in the soft pack so I can see the stencils and grab the right box. When I fish in a friends boat I can bring a couple of rods and the soft side pack with a good assortment of baits in a small package.
#4
RE: new tackle box
Soft packs are nice,but your always pulling out plastic boxes to get to bottom box with that lure you want
dang CI we must have been typing at the same time