Unfortunately for me, I don't have the luxury of buying baits for stocking up like some of my buddies. I have buddies with boxes of certain baits unopened. Some have walls dedicated in their garage like a tackle store. Given I understand some of them look for sales and deals and buy knowing they're going to need/order some in the future. I have quite a bit of baits and several units of the ones I find useful, but not a surplus. I buy as I go or stock my boat with baits I'm low on or are likely to loose and need an extra on the water. So to answer the question, they  get shipped in and I pull them out of the package and put them in the labeled tackle box. 

I wait to remove the bait until I know i'm out of camera view and the clerks are in another aisle.

You are a bad man, lol.

I wait until they are ready to go into rotation as a starter  or backup. 

I normally open that package and put them into my tackle bag. But this winter I bought some extras for baits that I normally lose, and I threw those along with the original package in an open compartment double deep 3700 box and threw that into my fishing cabinet.

On 2/21/2020 at 2:57 PM, Dangerfield said:

Steps:

1. Research BR + Interwebs - happiness

2. Brood about hard water / next time on water - sorrow

3. Purchase - lots of excitement

4. Wait - too much excitement

5. Delivery - extreme euphoria

6. "Latest Tackle Purchase Thread" Photo Op - peaking

7. Unpack baits - coming down

8. Organize and Store - ahh has cigarette

9. ????? - withdraw/depression

10. Monitor "Latest Tackle Purchase Thread"... get stupid ideas and go back to Step 1.

 

i'd sure like to see that from the bait monkey's perspective , ala:

Steps:

1. Casts shiny topwater popper in quiet pool

2. 2 quick pops...3 slow pulls,2 quick.......

3?

4?

5help me out here i'm bored