Tackle bag question
Tackle bag question
I currently have a BPS 370 stalker tackle bag. I am considering downsizing a bit to something like a Cabela's large bag to conserve space (since I don't use most of what is in my tackle bag anyway). Also, has anyone used a front loading system? What are your thoughts?
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I use a Wild River bag. Its awesome. Well built and holds a lot of stuff. They come in a variety of sizes.
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I don't really care for front load bags. I think they take up more floor space in a boat and are harder to access, and generally don't find them as flexible as top loading bags, particularly bags that hold the 3700s vertically. YMMV
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Do yo store your plastics in a worm binder that fits inside your tackle bag or in a Plano open storage box?
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I've had a big yellow BPS boat bag for years, and it hasn't even blinked. I fit everything in, including lunch and rain gear etc. All zippers/handles still intact, has one interior mesh pocket in the lid. Fits all the little extras. Leave it open, dump your broken plastics/line/wrappers etc in to it all day and you don't have to clean up the boat. It's simple, rugged, easily accessible and entirely modular as to what fits in it, since it's just a big duffle bag with a protected bottom.
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I've been eyeing the Simms Challenger duffle bags or the new Bass mafia one. They seem really huge, the simms in size L can fit 8 3700 boxes and S fits 3 .. I think? and the bass mafia one fits up to 10.
I just wish there was a duffle style bag that can fit like 6 boxes, a good medium sized one.
I just wish there was a duffle style bag that can fit like 6 boxes, a good medium sized one.
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There is a large zipper area in the back that holds tons of bags of plastics. I also put them in 3700 and load them up front.Rodster14 wrote:Do yo store your plastics in a worm binder that fits inside your tackle bag or in a Plano open storage box?
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I use boxes, binders, and big ziplock bags. That's one of the big advantages of a top loading bag: they're much more versatile at holding a variety of different types and sizes of containers.Rodster14 wrote:Do yo store your plastics in a worm binder that fits inside your tackle bag or in a Plano open storage box?
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The Bass Mafia bag will only fit 9 boxes, and that is with the slide out handle mechanism removed and it still just barely closes. It will not do 10, even modified, the roller wheels place the last box too high and it will not zip shut. They are huge bags. The BPS 370 was my go to "little" bag for years.leggomye990 wrote:I've been eyeing the Simms Challenger duffle bags or the new Bass mafia one. They seem really huge, the simms in size L can fit 8 3700 boxes and S fits 3 .. I think? and the bass mafia one fits up to 10.
I just wish there was a duffle style bag that can fit like 6 boxes, a good medium sized one.
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Teal101 wrote:The Bass Mafia bag will only fit 9 boxes, and that is with the slide out handle mechanism removed and it still just barely closes. It will not do 10, even modified, the roller wheels place the last box too high and it will not zip shut. They are huge bags. The BPS 370 was my go to "little" bag for years.leggomye990 wrote:I've been eyeing the Simms Challenger duffle bags or the new Bass mafia one. They seem really huge, the simms in size L can fit 8 3700 boxes and S fits 3 .. I think? and the bass mafia one fits up to 10.
I just wish there was a duffle style bag that can fit like 6 boxes, a good medium sized one.
Ah good to know, I hear the roller system handle thing is poorly designed as it the bag has no hard bottom so the boxes dont sit flush?
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Correct the hard bottom in the bag is actually the roller handle assembly itself. The bags slide and shift on it terribly and it causes the boxes to sit too high in the bag to zip up with more than 8 boxes in it. I drilled the rivets out of the bag and removed the roller handle and can get 9 boxes in it now. The roller wheels are also in the way of the boxes sitting down and causes that box to sit up too high. if the bag was about 2" taller and had a hard bottom over the roller stuff it would have worked great. The rest of the bag so far has been great with plenty of options for storage.leggomye990 wrote:Teal101 wrote:The Bass Mafia bag will only fit 9 boxes, and that is with the slide out handle mechanism removed and it still just barely closes. It will not do 10, even modified, the roller wheels place the last box too high and it will not zip shut. They are huge bags. The BPS 370 was my go to "little" bag for years.leggomye990 wrote:I've been eyeing the Simms Challenger duffle bags or the new Bass mafia one. They seem really huge, the simms in size L can fit 8 3700 boxes and S fits 3 .. I think? and the bass mafia one fits up to 10.
I just wish there was a duffle style bag that can fit like 6 boxes, a good medium sized one.
Ah good to know, I hear the roller system handle thing is poorly designed as it the bag has no hard bottom so the boxes dont sit flush?
I like TD-Z's
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When i walk the pond i just use a back pack so i can fish and walk. Works pretty darn good!