The Tackle Shakedown: What Earns Its Tray
Most tackle boxes are 80 percent dead weight. Here is the part that comes on every trip.
Open any tackle box that is more than two years old and most of it has not been tied on since the year it was bought. That is normal, and it is worth fixing before you buy more.
The test is simple. If it has not come out of the box in a full season, it is storage, not tackle. What survives that test is a short list, and it is mostly tools rather than lures.
Plano Guide Series StowAway 4-By Rack System
A tray system rather than one big bin. You carry the two trays for today and leave the rest in the truck, which is the whole point.
KastKing KarryAll Fishing Backpack
If you walk to your spot, a backpack with rod holders changes the trip more than any lure will. Hands free on the way in, everything in one place at the water.
PLUSINNO Floating Rubber Landing Net
Rubber mesh does not strip a fish of slime or tangle treble hooks, and it floats when you drop it in. You will drop it in.
Rite Angler Stainless Fish Lip Grip
Control the fish without a hand near the gills. Better for the fish on release, and considerably better for your thumbs around anything with teeth.
Booms Fishing X1 Aluminum Pliers
Long nose for deep hooks, cutters that actually go through braid, and a lanyard so they do not become a story about the pliers you used to own.
ROMECH Digital Hanging Scale
Weigh it, photograph it, put it back. Also the fastest way to settle an argument at the ramp.
Buy the box last, not first. Once you know which five lures and four tools you actually fish, the right box is obvious — and it is usually smaller than the one you would have bought on day one.
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