What do you guys take with you? I take my backpack whether bank or boat as it carries what I use primarily very easily. I bank fish mostly as well. Here’s my load out:

I am primarily a plastics fisher because it is simply more enjoyable for me. The KVD senkos are for wacky rigging as well as the smaller  pack of Zoom Houdini Magnum’s. The Reaction Innovations Spicy Beavers were a sleeper hit on the water for me as I had never even heard of them prior to buying a pack just to give it a try. My wife didn’t want me to open up the Plano trays because of the cats we have and hooks and stuff. One tray is terminal tackle with shaky head jigs and T-Rig off set hooks of all sizes and bullet weights. The other is full of different swim jigs/skirts/trailers and the other is a bit of top water and crankbaits. Items not pictured are a ziplock bag with a roll of toilet paper(in wife’s car) and a can of sunscreen as well as my water bottle. The items in this back are always changing of course especially the different plastics. I do need to pick up a couple spools of fluorocarbon To keep as well. Nothing like a bird nest that ruins an existing spool so bad that it has to be removed and not having anymore on hand. 

 

Correct me if I've overlooked them... I don't see any spinnerbaits.

 

oe

I used to use backpacks and larger tackle bags. Recently downsized to a Plano 3500 weekender bag with a double sided Plano 3500 box. One side is for plastics (beaver, baby brush hogs, senkos, trick worms, and curly tail grubs 8 of each). The other side has 3 spinnerbaits, a jig, frog, chatterbait, inline spinner, various terminal tackle and weights, and some zman trd soft plastics. Bag hold two full spools of line, a digital scale, multitool, sunscreen, and my phone, wallet, and keys. Usually a bottle of water and a snack. 

 

More than enough tackle and weighs less than 4lbs.

2 hours ago, OkobojiEagle said:

Correct me if I've overlooked them... I don't see any spinnerbaits.

 

oe

They are in the same Plano box as the jigs I just forgot to mention them. I will admit that I have only caught one small pound and a halfer on a spinner this year so they really don’t see much priority over the plastics which are steadily serving me well.

1 hour ago, LCG said:

I used to use backpacks and larger tackle bags. Recently downsized to a Plano 3500 weekender bag with a double sided Plano 3500 box. One side is for plastics (beaver, baby brush hogs, senkos, trick worms, and curly tail grubs 8 of each). The other side has 3 spinnerbaits, a jig, frog, chatterbait, inline spinner, various terminal tackle and weights, and some zman trd soft plastics. Bag hold two full spools of line, a digital scale, multitool, sunscreen, and my phone, wallet, and keys. Usually a bottle of water and a snack. 

 

More than enough tackle and weighs less than 4lbs.

I have a maxpedition gear slinger that I have thought about changing everything over to, but I keep talking myself out of it because I Keep wanting to fit all the same stuff into the smaller maxp bag and it constantly doesn’t work lol ten pounds of stuff in a five pound bag cliche type of deal. That and I can make up every excuse in the book to pack upwards of ten packs of plastics and all three of those trays along with other “possibles”.

 

Edit: The few times that I have attempted to downsize my current bag to just the stuff that I know I will use, my wife ends up wanting to use one of the lures that I had taken out the night before. It never fails. So I try and keep up with what she wants to use as well. I think my bag clocks in at around eight pounds(ish).

11 minutes ago, NavyVet1204 said:

I Keep wanting to fit all the same stuff into the smaller maxp bag

I was the same way until I realized that none of those lures and plastics saw the water. Stick with what works and less time wondering what to throw. Cover the basics and things become much more simple I find. 

 

Not to say my tackle at home is so simple though

6 minutes ago, LCG said:

I was the same way until I realized that none of those lures and plastics saw the water. Stick with what works and less time wondering what to throw. Cover the basics and things become much more simple I find. 

 

Not to say my tackle at home is so simple though

Noted lol my man cave is ten times or more what that bag holds maxed out.