If you could only carry two plano 3600's where ever you go what would be you have in your summer setup?

 

 

I switched to a kayak and downsized to two 3600's and im having a hell of a time choosing what I should take with me and what should stay in the garage.  Bait monkeys been bad.

 

trying to simplify my life for the following setups

702 drop shot

703 medium spinner

705cb

735

 

I think i need to swap one of the waterproof 3600's for a worm box since plastics take up a ton of room and I cant fit clamshell swimbaits in there.

lol too many options maybe i should downsize to 1 reel 1 rod per trip.

If I'm bank fishing I only bring two 3600 boxes in a backpack.

 

One has cranks, jerks, poppers, maybe a frog for fun.

 

The other box has spinners (regular, inlines, and Beetle Spins), couple jigs, a chatterbait, a buzz bait.

 

I carry one soft plastics bag (say a YUM Dinger bag) filled with a variety of things - worms, craws, grubs, lizards, flukes. I can stuff a lot in there.

 

I used to bring a freezer bag with maybe 10 bags of plastics in it but that's a bit ridiculous for most trips, and they get heavy. I usually know what I'm going to want to throw as far as plastics go. For a long day I may still bring the freezer bag, but I'd rather carry more drinking water.

 

One small double-sided box for terminal tackle.

 

On my yak I have a milk crate and bring 4 3600 boxes.

I kayak fish a lot and use a double sided Plano box. Is has one side soft plastics (trick worms, senkos, baby brush hogs, beaver style bait, and curly tail grubs) the other side has 2 of each of the following... Frogs, chatterbaits, spinnerbaits, jigs, spoons, and inline spinners. Another small double sided box of terminal tackle. Still way more than I need but like to have variety. 

Pitching jig

Swim jig

Popper

squarebill

Underspin

Some terminal tackle

Plastics such as stickbaits, craws, paddletails in a couple colors

All big swimbaits. That's basically what I have been doing lately anyway...

I fish out of my boat like I’m fishing out of a kayak , I try to simplify everything. Right now in my bag I have 2 3600 boxes, one 3601 thin for terminal tackle, a small Spinnerbait box, and a small worm binder. Way too much tackle for bank fishing, about twice the amount I’d take as a co angler, but perfect for the boat or kayak. One box has just jigs and chatterbaits, as jigs are my number one confidence bait. But I could take just a few and be happy, I could even live without chatterbaits if i have some Spinnerbaits. That would narrow it down to two boxes. This time of year, is pack a few 1/2oz Arky jigs in black/blue, two buzzbaits, two pop-rs, a spook, two poppin pad crashers, two 2.5 square bills, two lipless cranks, two Spinnerbaits, and a few confidence plastics. 5” senko, beaver bait either Texas rigged or as a jig trailer, a buzz toad, one bag of plastic worms, one bag of soft swimbaits. 

frogs- 2 popping 2 walking

2- walking topwater (soild & clear)

2- buzzbaits (black and white)

2- poppers

2- squarebills (shad & Chartruese)

2- Spinnerbaits (chart/white on both)

2- Jackhammers(GP and White)

2 pitchin jigs (black blue and Gp)

2 football jigs

5"&6" mixed senkos (GP)

Zoom ol monster plum and Junebug mixed

6.5 quiver works

netbait paca slims & tmacs

handfull of hooks and weights (texas rig,neko,wacky and shakey head)

 

Couple poppers

2 frogs-1 black 1 green

2 buzzbaits ( black w black blade),

2 bluegill swim jigs 1/4oz

3 sniper jigs green pumpkin 5/16oz

Senkos green pumpkin & blackblue 

2 kvd shallow 1.5s bluegill colors

Ned heads 1/16oz and TRDs green pumpkin (keep in bag so they don't melt!)

5 each 2/0,3/0 and 4/0 round bend worm hooks

5 each 1/8oz and 3/16oz tungsten worm weights

Summer craw menace grubs

Green pumpkin zoom ultravibe speed craw

Motor oil color worms-either 7in Berkley power worm or 6in mr twister phenom 

 

 

This is a little unorthodox, but after trying to carry both both more and less, I've settled on bringing two 3500 boxes and two 3455 boxes (together about the same size as 2 x 3600s, maybe smaller by volume actually), along with a small soft-sided tackle bag.

-One 3500 box for terminal tackle for plastics (worm, wacky, & drop shot books; bullet weights, ned heads, shaky and slider heads) + some reusable plastic bodies

-One 3500 box for jerkbaits and/or topwaters, typically 3-5 of each might fit, depending on size. Usually room for some weighted swimbait hooks or tube heads in here too.

-One 3455 box for jigs & bladed jigs, 6 compartments 2 per compartment, maybe 4 for jigs and 2 for bladed jigs (or vice versa), 12 total; Or sometimes fill one compartment with extra trailers.

-One 3455 box for crankbaits; 6 compartments, I usually don't need more than 6 cranks: 2 mid-divers, 2 shallow, 2 lipless would be typical, but depends on the waterbody & time of year.  Sometimes I can get 2 cranks per compartment if they're small.

-Buzzbaits and spinnerbaits (3 or 4 each) go in a side pocket in the bag.

-All plastics in the original packages in main center pocket of the bag.

On 7/15/2020 at 8:40 PM, DitchPanda said:

Couple poppers

2 frogs-1 black 1 green

2 buzzbaits ( black w black blade),

2 bluegill swim jigs 1/4oz

3 sniper jigs green pumpkin 5/16oz

Senkos green pumpkin & blackblue 

2 kvd shallow 1.5s bluegill colors

Ned heads 1/16oz and TRDs green pumpkin (keep in bag so they don't melt!)

5 each 2/0,3/0 and 4/0 round bend worm hooks

5 each 1/8oz and 3/16oz tungsten worm weights

Summer craw menace grubs

Green pumpkin zoom ultravibe speed craw

Motor oil color worms-either 7in Berkley power worm or 6in mr twister phenom 

 

 

THIS, add some keitech style swimbaits and a few heavier weights and I would be content spring-fall

Whenever I need to downsize, I simply start primarily with my most consistently productive baits, under most conditions, for that time of year...then...add a few “just-in-case” baits, for the possibility of unexpected circumstances.  Like thicker vegetation that wasn’t there last time, etc.

On 7/14/2020 at 7:03 PM, ISuckAtBassFishingBoise said:

If you could only carry two plano 3600's where ever you go what would be you have in your summer setup?

 

 

I switched to a kayak and downsized to two 3600's and im having a hell of a time choosing what I should take with me and what should stay in the garage.  Bait monkeys been bad.

 

trying to simplify my life for the following setups

702 drop shot

703 medium spinner

705cb

735

 

I think i need to swap one of the waterproof 3600's for a worm box since plastics take up a ton of room and I cant fit clamshell swimbaits in there.

lol too many options maybe i should downsize to 1 reel 1 rod per trip.

I would fill one with hard baits and one with rigging for soft plastics.

I replied to a similar thread yesterday - backpack thread maybe? This is my backpack kit:

 

Box 1 is marked "Plugs". Maybe 4 squarebills, a few jerks, a few poppers, 2 lipless, some other random thing maybe I dunno.

 

Box 2 is marked "Jigs/Spinners" and contains a few jigs, a few spinners/inlines, a few Beetle Spins, some tiny hair jigs, a chatterbait or two, and one buzz bait. And I see one extra skirt is in there too for whatever reason.

 

I carry terminal in a small double-sided box. And a have a one small bag of plastics with 20 different baits stuffed in it (craws, worms, lizards, flukes).

 

If I can't catch anything with that...well I often can't but I think it's my location more than anything