In-Line Spinner Storage

[MstormC]

Hey guys/gals!

I am curious to know what you all of you are using to store your in-line spinners.

I'm currently using the 2" deep plastic storage boxes but have found that if I don't open them up after each outing they tend to make the spinners turn kind of funky due to no ventilation. I also have a Stanley tool box that I took PVC pipe and cut slots in them and put the spinners in the PVC. While this works quite well it is rather difficult to see which spinner is in a given slot.

So lets hear what you are using.

Thanks,

Chuck

[diemai]

Doesn't matter how you store your lures , wether hanging down in a kinda rack or laying separately in the compartments of a stowaway box , put it in a dry , possibly warmer place after fishing and open it up to dry your lures .

greetz , diemai

[Spike-A-Pike]

I've hung a bunch around the edge of my Packer Cheesehead for the 2008 TU Meet and that worked just great. It is a foam rubber with a rubberized outer coating. That rubberized coating is water and snow proof and showed no wear after the event. If the same material could be found in a 2" X 4" X 2' or 3', a couple pieces along the boat gunwales would be handy for lures in general. I have hung them in a 5 gallon bucket when moving them from the bench to the boat along with other items in the boat; you could even drill a few drainage holes for rainy days - but, I'd be tempted to drill holes in a lid instead.

The Cheesehead at least serves double duty; yup - it makes a dip container too!

[MstormC]

I guess maybe I should have been a little more explicit when asking this. What does everyone use to store them so that they won't/don't get tangled with one another?

Bruce, great idea on the Cheesehead. My only concern with the styrofoam type material is that most, and I say most, tend to not mix well with water. Granted it wouldn't be that great of a quantity of water but after a while it would add up. Know what I mean?

Chuck

[Spike-A-Pike]

But, if its Styrofoam, wouldn't float? Check it out, no tangles (yet). This was getting close to the end of the TU Meet in Clinton, MO 2008. It was a blast.

[diemai]

@ MstormC

Here are some pics showing some of my storage pouches .

The one with the bucktails in it I bought from a German mailorder shop a few years ago , it does not have a shoulder strap , it is supposed to be put into another shoulder bag .

But has a textile latch on its back side , so I can hang it on the gunwall of my small boat , very convinient !

The jerkbait storage bag is homemade , I just riveted some lenghts of 5" drain pipe together , afterwards I cut some grooves to accommodate the hooks into their rims .

For cutting and drilling the rivet holes I used my "Dremel" , to bond the pipes I took simple pop rivets .

What I mean to tell you by these pictures is just to look around for some easy accessible material , you could build something up to suit your needs , if you can't find something fitting in a shop .

Square pipes are hard to find(with round ones you loose some space) , but maybe you could be lucky, you could try electric wiring cable canals , these are available in rectangular shape , but one side is designed to open .

Maybe even any kind of plastic containers would do as well , you may just tape them together(attention , won't be wormproof !)

You could use many plastic or even metal boxes , at first you must determine about the size of the finished tubing pack , so that it would fit in without wasting space .

But you could also use almost any bag with a top lid opening to insert the tubing pack(as long , as it fits in reasonably) .

I don't know about the USA , but in Europe many different sized bags for fishing are available , maybe army surplus stores would be an option , too ?

Just let your imagination run wild , it is not that hard to build such tubing storage bags(or boxes) , the problem is rather to get an idea and a hold on the required material:yes: .

good luck , diemai

[MstormC]

Bruce, great idea with the cheese head, except with me being a diehard packer fan I think the lures would fly off as I am throwing mine at the TV, from time to time, well maybe more this year

diemai, I think if I am reading your post correctly we are saying the same thing, only in a differnt way.

So, from what the two of you have said is the general consensus is that isn't a really good way to store them, at least commercially available?

I recently purchased a tacklebox intended for Lake Michigan spoons that have a page style holder that seems to look like it will work fairly well. The only down side to it is that it won't hold my large(8"+) in-lines. I will post some pics later.

Chuck

[diemai]

@ MstormC

Certainly you can read between the lines of my previous post , that I wasn't too satisfied with commercial storage systems , most European ones are way too small for more voluminous and/or longer lures .

That's why I wrote quite a few lines describing how I made my storage bag .

Sadly the commercial pouch shown is no longer available . It was exclusively made for a large German mailorder shop , so they are sold out with it obviously , I have three of these .

But 8" plus in-lines might also not fit in , really depends on the width of their blades and hooks , the length would fit .

There is also another homemade design , that is sometimes published in German angling magazines , doesn't look neat and professional , but works pretty well , originally it was designed to carry so-called pirks(large jigging spoons of several ounces of weight)along for saltwater boatfishing the Baltic or North atlantic coast .

It simply consists of a larger plastic bucket with a top lid , preferably an oval one(cleaned up wall paint buckets are fine) .

One or two inches below its top rim(depending on length of bucktails, pirks most likely have no dressed hooks)you would drill a line of smaller holes all around the buckets circumference , keep at least minimum 1" distance between them, maybe more , not to weaken the wall of the bucket too much:wink: .

Also to keep distance between the single hung-up lures later .

After just take a sufficient length of copperwire(rigid cable remainders still plastic coated are fine)and thread it through the aligned holes to make up for loops inside of the bucket , knot or crimp the tag ends somehow , so that the wire can't pull out anymore .

You can now hang your lures onto the loops inside of the bucket , even have some space for bulk storage at its bottom , you may close its lid , and also drill some drainage holes or even rivet an old car seat belt onto it as a shoulder strap(fittings should be reinforced) .

If you don't wanna show up at the waters edge with this cheap made "lure container" , you could at least utilize it for lure storage at home:wink: .

It is not suited for double or triple hooked baits , these would still tangle inside the bucket , but for pirks , spoons and in-lines it should be OK !

Would be nice to see your new page style lure holder , to be honest , I don't have a clue how it would look like !

greetz , Dieter

[MTfishingrods]

I have 3/4" thick weather stripping stuck in stips on my dash and in varrious other places all around my boat. When I switch spinner baits or in lines I just stick the hook into the foam strip and there it hangs till the next time I need it. The only drawback is I sound like Santa Claus when driving the boat at higher speeds. A lot of jinggling going on with mabey 100 various baits hanging around, but they are very accesable.

[MstormC]

I guess I am just surprised that someone hasn't come up with a commercial version as it looks like it would be something that is missing from the industry.

The below pictures are of the tackle box that I picked up a couple of days ago. It is about 24"w X 12"d X 6"h

There is one problem with it that I have found so far...I now have to much room.