Long time lurker, first time poster. Sup guys! 

 

Thought this would be kind've a cool idea to see the different responses...

 

I know this seems like a bass fisherman's worst nightmare, haha, but IF (god forbid) you had to downsize to a single plano 3700 box (or box of similar size/brand), and that was ALL you could take with you, what would you put inside? You could still have your assortment of rods that could cover all techniques, but only one box to bring the goods. 

bits and pieces of all the posters who asked me to pick one this, and three that....and a couple live bait hooks

3 minutes ago, Choporoz said:

bits and pieces of all the posters who asked me to pick one this, and three that....and a couple live bait hooks

 

Bet you could catch some decent catfish with that!

Does this include terminal tackle too?   

 

Ha ha...just joking - and welcome aboard.

 

There are actually a number of factors that would help determine what I filled my box with....:

 1. Geographical location

 2. Time of year

 3. characteristics of body of water

 

Assuming I was on my home chain of lakes - I would fill my plano box with the following:

1. Soft plastic worms (green pumpkin and junebug) - both ribbon tail and trick worms

2. flipping plastics (creature baits)

3. 2 - squarebill cranks (1 green pumpkin, 1 chartreuse)

4. Medium diving cranks (same colors)

 

I would bet I could have a good ol' time and catch fish too

3 minutes ago, Caught In The Moment said:

 

Bet you could catch some decent catfish with that!

True that.  Unfortunately, I seem to be able to catch decent catfish on just about anything throw at bass

Terminal tackle crammed as tight as possible into 1 or two holes.

Can we take bags of plastics separately or do they need to be cramped in too?  I don't usually put them in a plano style box.

Whopper Plopper

6th sense crush flat 75x

Rebel Crawfish

Zara Spook

Jerk Bait

Spinner Bait

Pad Crasher Frog

Keitech Swing Impact Fats or Rage Swimmer

Norman Quarterback (discontinued, but I have a few laying around and they produce)

Pop-R

Various Siebert jigs and trailers

If all I could have was one case then I'd have to have a bit of everything.

 

Variety of hooks

Variety of sinkers

Bobber

Square bill crank bait

Chatterbait

A few small, inline spinners

A few Senkos and variety of other plastic worms and grubs

Lipless crank bait

Frog

I would stuff it full of jigs and plastic trailers. 

I decided to go out and the garage and see what I can actually cram into one box. I'm assuming it needs to include terminal tackle and plastics. Would vary by season and location, but it would generally look something like this:

 

 

IF I downsized to one 3700 box.  It'd be Plano's deep Prolatch (http://www.planomolding.com/deep-prolatch-stowaway-utility-box-3700-series) ... it's 3 1/2" deep.  I'd epoxy my own dividers in it and keep a couple of my favorite baits in each category and some soft plastics too.  

 

...Enough cash to buy a whole bunch of other baits.

 

Kidding aside, I would put in a popping pad crasher, a junior pad crasher, some zinkerzs to put on some 1/16 ounce mushroom heads, some senkos and 3/0 ewg hooks and gamakatsu wacky hooks, zoom 4.5 inch trick worm and full size trick worm, some 1/8 ounce owner shaky heads, a bandit 100, a pop x and pop-r, a buzzbait or whopper plopper, a junior super spook, a #5, #7 and #8 shad raps, a deep little n, a 3/8 and 1/2 ounce arky style dirty jig, a 3/16 ounce baby boo jig with zoom super chunk junior as a trailer, a vision 110, a silver Buddy, a 1/8 ounce inline spinner, a chatterbait, and that's all.

Welcome aboard!

 

I won't give specifics, but I'd have 4" Senkos or Stik-Os

some Shad Shape Worms (Yamamoto), various hooks

wacky, TX, Ned jigs, TRDs. All soft plastics. Oh and some

drop shot weights.

I recently put a bank fishing Day Box together using this Plano 23750 (which I will soon use if the river ever stops flooding).

 

3 - lipless cranks in Silver/Blue, Crawfish, Firetiger

1 - Black Jitterbug

1 - GYCB popper in Frog pattern

1 - Rebel PopR in Silver and Black

1 - Heddon Baby Lucky 13 in White w/Red Head 

1 - Poppin Frog in Brown

1 - Jointed Rapala in Silver/Black

1 - Original Rapala in Gold/Black

3 - Beetle Spin in Black, White, Orange and spare grubs

2 - Spinnerbaits in White and Chartreuse w/extra trailers

2 - Roostertail one in Chartreuse and a smaller one in Rainbow Trout

1 - Mepps Aglia Long #2 with Black hair

1 - Mepps XD #3

1 - Z-man Chatterbait in White/Chartreuse

1 - Johnson's Silver Minnow in Silver with White chunk

1 - Rapala Shad Rap

1 - GYCB crankbait in Brown/Gold

1 - Rebel Crawfish

1 - Bomber 4A in Baby Bass

1 - Rebel Mid Wee R in Baby Bass

1 - Rebel Crickhopper

2 - Black/Blue jigs with Black chunks

2 - Orange/Brown jigs with Brown chunks

1 - Beaver bait (Buddah Baits) on swivel jig head

1 - Black/Blue tube on jig head

2 - Keitech swimbait on weighted hook

1 - TRD on mushroom head

2 - Zoom Flukes in shad

Various hooks, Slider heads, jig heads and weights

 

I have enough room left to cram 3 or 4 each of the following soft plastics, (although I just bring various bags in my backpack): Senkos, Slider/Finesse worms, ribbontails, craws, beavers and creatures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My letter of resignation from bass fishing.

Minnow: ... and a partridge in a pear tree?   (Sorry! Did find your list very informative.)

I actually have a single Plano 3700 box that is loaded with  my best hard baits minus jerkbaits. Besides that I think most of these "If you were dropped behind enemy lines with only the lures that can fit in a sandwich bag" are just whatever. I can fit like 4 or 5 Plano boxes in a regular school book bag that I can carry for at least a day.

 

Allen

On 05/05/2017 at 4:42 PM, kickerfish1 said:

I would stuff it full of jigs and plastic trailers. 

⬆⬆⬆⬆ This

If I could bend the rules, instead of a deep 3700 or 3700, I always use the guide series double decker 4700 box which is 3700 dimensions in length and width. 

 

5" kalins grubs - Water Red, Bluegill, Ron's Craw

BPS - Motor oil red

Tubes - Smoke Purple, Smoke Purple gold, Water Red

Small yum crawbugs - green pump Texas red, water orange color

slider pro classic spider heads, various weights

bandit 100s

RESs

Deep little Ns

3/16 ounce SK bleeding Shad spinnerbaits

tube of scent

snaps

 

If room left

DT16s

Now discontinued net bait slim shakes bluegill and water candy

zoom swamp crawlers water red and water candy

A gun, to shoot myself for having to downsize to a single Plano 3700 tackle box.

I'd only need 1 thing in there,

 

the keys to my boats storage lockers so I could get to the rest of my stuff. 

Loved the responses guys! Cool to see what kinds of baits each of you value most.

 

Props to OklahomaMike for actually taking the time to fill up a box and take a pic! Good stuff dude!