Trying to adjust my tackle problem/infatuation with bringing it ALL.

 

Trying to condense to a smaller backpack.  I've decided to try 3 3700 plano edge boxes (terminal, jig, flex) and they fit.

Did the adjustment putting a spinnerbait holder into the jig box and feel good about the terminal being stocked in there. 

 

Now the Flex box...  Looking for ideas on how people set it up for a "day box" ie. what compartments did you go with?

I’ve recently done the same thing. Got tired of taking WAY more than I needed, especially since most of my fishing now is out of a kayak. Space comes at a premium. 
 

I took one box, and I have the following in it:

3 spooks, 1 shower blows, 1 chug bug, 5 or 6 jerkbaits, 3 or 4 lipless, 2 blade baits, 2 square bills, and 2 spinnerbaits, a chatterbait, 4 jigs, and one 6” mag draft. 
 

Plus a box of terminal tackle and a handful of bags of soft plastics. Way less than what I carried before. Plus, part of my motivation to do this was to force myself to use these baits more. I’ve fished for bass my whole life, but just started bass fishing the last 2 years lol. Most of my fishing (95%+) had been saltwater until careers have moved me further away. So, I have not caught many fish on jerkbaits and lipless so I take a couple more of each to make it easier to choose one to throw. 

Rapha makes some excellent, very small and thin backpacks (normally for cycling) that work well with a couple of 3700 utility boxes.  In fact any small/thin backpack made specifically for carrying a laptop should be perfect for use with 1-2 utility boxes.  For venues where I know what works, I travel even lighter with no backpack at all.

Less is definitely more when putting a pack together in my experience. I used to have one of those fancy wild river bags and fully loaded that thing must’ve weighed 45 pounds haha. Pretty much defeated the concept of using a pack for mobility purposes. Now I’ve got a couple different hip/messenger bags (gf calls them my fishing purses) and they hold more than enough for me. 

I am a Plano box addict and probably have two dozen of them packed and ready to go.

 

I either pack them around a specific presentation(s) or more rarely a specific combo.  So I have a 3600 box with three colors of 5’ Senkos and TT to rig them a

few ways.  In addition that box has enough room for a slot of 3.75” Fat Impacts and the TT to nail-weight rig them.  Those two presentations are both fished with basically the same tackle and complement each other well, so I like having them together in a grab and go box. 
 

I do a lot of my fishing from the bank and only bring a single 3600 box with me, generally with a few hardbaits or a couple ancillary bags of plastics. Having a bunch of them pre-loaded means that I can pick a destination, grab a combo, grab a few boxes, and be on the road within minutes. I also tend to leave a fair amount of tackle in my car, changing it out as the seasons change.

 

I’m constantly re-packing my little kits as I switch up plastics/terminal tackle or just because I’m having a bout of insomnia and fussing with something helps me relax so I can get to sleep. 

I have what I call my EFK / Emergency Fishing Kit in my vehicle (old thread somewhere).

 

It is a simple book backpack from Walmart - $11. It has a telescopic BPS rod with a Pflueger Trion reel, one small terminal box, one 3600 with whatever I can stuff in it, 3 or 4 bags of plastics, and a thermos.

 

Also a scale, multitool, rag, sunscreen, maybe a Clif bar sometimes. It's in my van ready to go at any time.

My backpack for bank fishing and my kayak contains one Plano 3600 and a double sided Plano worm stowaway box (these can be hard to find).  The 3600 contains 3 topwater baits, 3 jerkbaits, 5 crankbaits, a few misc. baits and 3 jigs.  The two sided box has spots for terminal tackle on each side and space for about 12 bags of soft plastic total.   I also keep sunscreen, a water bottle, pliers, Keitechs and sunglasses in my backpack.  About the only thing I don't bring are spinnerbaits and swimbaits.