Is it advisable to open various bags of plastics and place them in the tray sections of tackle boxes?

Or... should they remain sealed in the original plastic bags?  I don't return them to their original packaging once they've been in the water.  I'm creating a new tackle box with only plastics, jigs, hooks, etc for

C rigs, and so on. If the plastic was open in the tray, colors, sizes, shapes are all handier without digging

through bags of the stuff.  But I didn't know if they would tend to dry out, loose their flavor and what not

over the course of the year.  Also, once the plastic has been fished, assuming it's not torn or otherwise

destroyed, is it still effective in catching fish?  How long do they last?  

Plastics in tackle box will always be better in their original package.

I don 't see any reason why you don 't return them to the bag once they 've been in the water, all you need is to allow them to dry before putting them back in.

I have all my plastics on plano boxes, i decide to put on it a year ago, they are in god shape, put it by colors, specialy redshad and motoroil, to prevent color mix. The only bad thing is that i need to add scent every 3 months or so...

i play it safe an keep them in their original bags

I allways keep them in the original bag.I think they keep better and they'er not gonna mess up your box if they have a bunch of salt and stuff on them.

Keeping them in bags is a bunch of nonsense.  That scent that is on them is not going to wear off so much so that the bass is not going to be able to smell it in the water, and even if it does, who cares?  

I fish with a guy who has a really old tacklebox with REALLY old tackle inside.  It's a total mess inside, old powerworms and ribbontails strewn about, all of them outside the bag and mixing and tangled amongst each other.  He has rusty hooks and old cheapo cranks he either found on the lakeside or stuff he got out of the bargain bin at Walmart 10 years ago.  They guy NEVER has a problem catching fish.  I'd say 98% of the sport is technique, and that last 2% is gear, maybe even less.

In fact, I know another guy who has a handful of these red 5" worms that have been in his tackle box for over 15 years, just sitting amongst his terminal tackle at the bottom of his box.  They smell like nothing, are hard as a rock, and he kills on them.

Take it for what it's worth.  

It all comes down to technique.  If you are catching fish keep doing what you are doing.  I have plastics in there bags and some in tha plastic boxes.  It makes no difference.

i think that you should keep your plasitcs in the original packaging, espically if its powerbait or something prescented, even not scented.  because ive found that when u put then in tackle boxes when its hot that theyll kindof melt together and the colors will bleed all over.

i always keep my plastics in theyre bags, unless i use them pretty bad. then ill cut off the tails or something to make a good trailer for a swimming jig or spinner bait

get a bait binder, forget about it. The binder has ziplock bags, keeps them organized, and separated.  

I like to keep mine in the package the come in. I never could find a tackle bag I like, they are all to deep and the bags of worms or tubes seem to get messy. I was always having to dig through it find something. I bought a large camera bag, I can put the bags in it vertically and they stay in place, also the pockets on the ends are great for hooks and weights.

Daniel