I recently picked up some plano 3601thin tackle trays and thinking of storing both soft plastics and hard lures in the same box.

 

The idea is to keep this box as a simplified box, storing my confidence baits.

 

My only concern is the salt from the plastics may rust the hooks of the hard lures, but not sure that would happen if stored in seperate compartments.

 

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

Ive done it in a pinch but its not ideal.  Wet plastics can get underneath the inserts and spread salt throughout the entire row. 

This has never NOT ended poorly for me. I'll never do it again. You will get rust.

My "on foot" shore fishing box is set up this way...  Haven't had problems in the past.  I open the box lid over night after each outing.

The only way that I have done it is with a hydro flo box in the kayak. Like others have said, I never put cranks or terminal tackle in the same row as plastics. The movable dividers never fit well enough to keep the oils or scent on the plastics from getting underneath.

I had a two sided box at one time for pond hopping.  I would put softplastic on one side and lures and hooks on the other. It seemed to work but the softplastic started to deform and I went back to keeping them in their original bags.

One thing I often do to help contain rust in those plastic trays, is to take a low watt soldering iron, or plastic welder (better because you will ruin your soldering iron tip melting plastic with it), and install all of your adjustable dividers where you want to keep them.  Then run the soldering iron across the edges of the dividers to melt the adjustable dividers into the walls and bottom.  Water can still move around through the top side, but it does help to prevent some of the spread.  Then just leave it open when not in use so the water inside can dry out.  It's not 100%, but I think it helps some.