How much soft plastics do you bring? 2025

Josh_Bovaird reply :

Im just curious how much plastics you guys load in your boat. Im trying to go through my stuff and liquidate, I'm just curious what yours guys carry on looks like.

A-Jay reply :

I almost always bring way too much -

But if I position it correctly & counter balance it properly, I'm usually OK.

A-Jay

long island basser reply :

I bring my BPS double sided binder.

hawgenvy reply :

Don't bring anything you haven't used or caught a fish on in 12 months. The exception is one bait that you've gotten into your head that you should bring anyway. Your penalty will be you have to fish with it for the entire first hour even if you don't get bitten once.

Ohio Archer reply :

I weighed my worm bag...15 lbs. Too lazy to go thru it. Most are left overs from tournament fishing in the '80s and '90s. They are all still in good shape. Be using them when spring rolls around. Hopefully, I'll go thru a few of them catching fish.

Bankbeater reply :

I bring my red BPS tackle bag. Plenty of pockets for other items like lunch, and sunblock.

jc68 reply :

way more than i will ever use

Surfcaster reply :

I bring way too many soft plastics to the lake during a tournament. There are packs of worms and creature baits I have never used but when I am going through by tackle bag the night before, I can not bring myself to remove those packs because of the "Just in case" scenario. If I only brought what I fished, it would be one pack of Zoom Super hogs, one pack of Senkos and one pack of Mann's Jelly worms. When my fishing partner opens the rod locker on his boat, it looks like the Zoom section at BPS.

Raul reply :

On 2/25/2016 at 5:53 AM, Ohio Archer said:

I weighed my worm bag...15 lbs. Too lazy to go thru it. Most are left overs from tournament fishing in the '80s and '90s. They are all still in good shape. Be using them when spring rolls around. Hopefully, I'll go thru a few of them catching fish.

15 lbs is not a bad starter kit weight.

ww2farmer reply :

More than I need, but a lot less than I used to carry.

cgolf reply :

Always way more than I need and a lot of it goes unused. At the same time though not enough, because you always find a situation where you want to throw a particular bait and then you realize it's at home.

BaitMonkey1984 reply :

I used to bring everything I own. Then I ran out of room. Then I bough a bigger boat. Then I ran out of room again. I bring way too much. I have 18+ Plano 3700 boxes of my "go to" soft plastics. A couple boxes of worms separated by colors, one box for craws, one for tubes, etc. Then a garage full of the extras. Was, did my GF put you up to this question?

papajoe222 reply :

I stopped carrying all the soft plastics I once did, but still keep way too much on board. If I'm heading out on someone else's boat, I carry one of my Flambeau 1/2 Satchels. It'll hold twenty or so bags. I keep three bottles of Spike It dye in a pocket of my tackle bag and that eliminates carrying a bunch of different colors.

ethan-333 reply :

all of them.

i know if i leave something at home ill want to fish it

S. Sass reply :

On 2/25/2016 at 1:06 PM, ethan-333 said:

all of them.

i know if i leave something at home ill want to fish it

Last weekend I had a last minute chance to go and so I did. Well just so happens I didn't bring my 2nd bag that is about 90% of my plastics. (in a hurry we forgot it) Well wouldn't ya know it we reached for that bag numerous times. We missed having the options.

Its a pain to bring the extra but it reminds me of why you carry or why parachutes are a good idea. Its much better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

Bluebasser86 reply :

Enough to start a tackle shop. 7 or 8 extra large binders that will barely zip shut, and another half dozen gallon ziplock bags that won't seal. If I don't bring it, that will be the bait I need.

Mosster47 reply :

I have a Plano 3700 box for every plastic technique that are always in the boat and full. I have two duffel bags. One has all the replacements for the techniques I'm going to fish, and the bag will all the ones I'm not is in my truck, because you never know.

In all it has to be pretty close to 30lbs.

Turkey sandwich reply :

I try to stay organized by the body of water I'm fishing and what I'm targeting. So, the plastics I'm throwing in a river for smallies are typically a lot different than the ones I'd Carolina or Texas rig for largemouth. (I probably won't be C-rigging 10" curl or ribbon tail worms on the Susquehanna and I probably won't be pitching 2.5" tubes in pads... Probably.)

Catt reply :

Completely depends on the body of water & how dialed in I am!

Josh_Bovaird reply :

I was just curious I carried all this with me last year and feel like I have to much.

WIGuide reply :

I carry quite a bit, but not that much as what you've got there. Maybe look into going a step more organized, or broken down. I'd organize those shoe boxes by color and what colors you'd use under Muddy/Stained/Clear water. Then have an empty container or two and load them up before you head out that day filling it with baits you think you're going to use.

hawgenvy reply :

On 2/25/2016 at 8:43 PM, Josh_Bovaird said:

I was just curious I carried all this with me last year and feel like I have to much.

Hey, where'd you get that photo of the shelf in my garage?

eyedabassman reply :

enough to almost sink my boat or I can't get on plane!

Team9nine reply :

Whatever fits in this little bag, which is a lot more than you'd think. Guessing maybe a couple 2-3 pounds worth of plastics. If I can't catch bass on what I can carry in this little worm bag, I'm guessing the bite for the day is likely better on something else, and carrying and sorting through a couple dozen more pounds of plastic isn't going to be the answer.

-T9

primetime reply :

Full day...Full Duffle bag of plastics in bags...then pockets stuffed with more bags....and I have a binder that I carry on my belt that holds a dozen bags, and I always have a few bags of baits jammed in a pocket or a few flukes rigged up in my shirt pocket etc...

I rarely go into the duffle bag, but my partners love it...They go shopping....I now find I can fish with only 3-4 colors, and half dozen types of baits...Actually, Green Pumpkin, Junebug or black and blue can do it all for me in any bait...Maybe a few watermelon reds...But I have to always have a ton of jig trailers and colors for grubs, creatures, craws, and Ribbon Tails in all sizes..Senkos are easy for me..One bag of Junebug in 4-7" mixed, pack of zinkers in Purple Haze is my favorite in 5" lately, Since moving to ZMAN, I don't need as many baits....3 packs in 5 baits they make is actually all I really need, but Elaztach is annoying for certain types of fishing....So I still need all the SK, Zoom, Culprit, Berkley, Zoom, Etc...

N Florida Mike reply :

I have a bait box holder that carries 4 individual containers chocked full of baits.One is a Zoom box,and a culprit box.Another is a miscellaneous plastics box,and the other is all the cranks,topwaters,jerkbaits etc.Then I have a small bucket with important stuff,scale,ruler, knife,sinkers,pliers etc..Also in the bucket are my top baits for that day based on where I'm going.These will usually always include senkos,flukes,worms of some kind.Then I have a few tackle boxes full of old stuff in my fishing room in the garage.I could probably fish for at least 10 years on what I have and not run out.

Lil Joe The Grinder reply :

All of them... squeezed in highly organized containers lol

cgolf reply :

Thinking about this a little more, it really depends on the body of water too. Stained water the fish don't seem as color sensitive, but on clear water the fish are hot and cold on colors. Some conditions will only hit smoke purple or other more natural colors and not hit water red, and then an hour later due to the weather changing it has completely flipped itself on its head.

Dingy water I may throw maybe 2 different colors in a trip vs 10 to 20 in clear water. So I was thinking Clearwater lakes when I take a lot, on local lakes I take 2 3600 boxes of prerigged baits and that's it. Well maybe if I switch colors more often in dingy water I will catch more fish, hmm a good reason to buy more stuff, awesome lol

Josh_Bovaird reply :

Thanks for the replies I've definitely been doing some organizing and hoping to cut this pile in half

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