snap - lock sandwich bags are my favourite.

they also got a section where you can write on the bag what pound leader, what size hooks yada yada.

You know the soft plastic bags that have like 20 lots of sleeves in it, just put them in there and take the sinkers off your loops and they will hold perfectly, just run them over your hand untill the rig is in a large circle and place into the sleeves. 

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I run mine in a circle perhaps 10cm accross. Then I have a garden tie dispenser and wrap two small loops around opposite sides. Holds together well, even the 3 dropper paternosters with doubled hooks. Then they go in a rig bag i've labeled with a permanent marker (e.g. light paternosters, heavy, driftbaits, surf, whiting, line and hooks only for quick retying, etc) For about $2 its well useful.

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As flangies said.  I use Berkley soft bags - got 3 off - offshore, jigs and beach.  They have 10 zip lock bags and 3 small zip pockets on the inside and a couple of mesh zip pockets on the outside - about $20-$30 each.  Also use lock sandwich bags for extras.  Fresh water wash rigs and air dry for a few days then repack.

Cheers Pete

As said - soft bags with sleaves, or sandwich bags.... WIth the sinker off.

Cheers,

P

i use the soft bags also, berkley as posted earlier make nice ones. You can pick them up at bcf although theyre cheaper at big w.

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Fish-wrxed?

as above for me .. ive got a few sorts of bags ..

one of them has a hard lure case in the second half of it which i use for my surf rigs and salmon lures .. my boat ones ar just for rigs as i have jig wraps for jigs and lure rolls for my poppers .. all in all they are a great way to cart your gear as most days your never going to need more than a few rigs anyway ...

in saying that .. if im going out in my boat the whole tackle box and bags sometimes gets placed in the cabin :P

I have a snap swivel screwed to the cab ceiling , as i use the crainswivels on my paternoster rigs i don't put hooks on just hang them in the cab until needed .I have a noodle with all different hook sizes with the leader tied on, then i just pull out a paternoster rig tie on the hooks i want to use. stays neat and easy to get to..

I need to buy a few more Gulp bags.

Nice system Paul G, but I dont have a cab to hang anything off unless they have invented skyhooks.

Thanks for your help all.

You can wrap your pre-made rigs around them and it only takes seconds to get them off.
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Similar to what Colin has suggested, I use a strip of foam to store my rigs. Embed the hooks into the foam first, then wrap your rig around the foam. Hold sinkers in place with an elastic band. I used this method in Kalbarri and changing rigs was dead easy. I used to used snaplock bags but I found that rigs were still tangling.

I think I got a sheet of this stuff from Clark Rubber.

If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.

I find these work well as they rarely tangle much and don't put kinks, bends or spirals in them if wrapped around objects. I bought a lunch box sized clear container (cheap as at any large supermarket) and put them in there. I usually hold about 40 different rigs, including trolling rigs.  

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Yep, same as abandons foam strips but I also put them in one of those neoprene pencil cases that I scored out of stationery section in Big dub.

Snap lock bags are the go for me keeps things tidy.

I'm going to have to do something like the ideas above, can see the time saving of having my hooklengths already tied up.

My idea of tidy is to just chuck everything, leads ,leaders and hooks in fact everything into a bucket and sort it out later.

I then later dig out the birds nest that a weaver bird would be proud of and just cut off the hooks,swivels and snaps rinse them off and put them away for reuse. 

I,ve never tended to use a hooklength or leader for more than one session and just tie my rigs when I get there.

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I use both pool noodles and snap lock bags.

I have started to carry less and less stuff on my fishing trips.  I now just go out with one or two rods, a pool noodle with a few rigs and a small toiletries bag from Ikea that hold my swivels, a few drift weights, few spare tied rigs in snap lock bags, a combo pliers and thats it.

Weights are in a bucket in the boat.

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You can buy a cheap CD wallet from a $2 shop and just loop them up in there.  Works pretty well.

Hi All

I use the snap lock bags in one of those Gillies soft bag types, pre-make a heap of rigs and it becomes your bag of tricks for the day, all you need is to pick what you need and when, don't have problems with tangles, but had prior, and learn't you need to place them in a particular way and presto, nice and easy retrieve. Also agree with taking less on the boat, she's full with range of sinkers and main items anyway etc, makes less chance in forgeting things. All needed is load up the rods, bait and make sure you have your bag of tricks with you

Have a funny story, used to take everything off the boat each time and now I don't, as one time went fishing with a mate and we both forgot a knife... makes a fishing hard with no knife

Cock

The only problem is that when i get down to wherever im fishing i decide to go with a different rig. different hooks for different baits or lure so the 30 bottom bashing rigs i have made up are useless

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I pretie my double paternosters with a loop at each end (small one at the top to loop onto the mainline swivel, large one at the bottom to loop on the sinker), leaving all terminal tackle off them I connect them loop to loop and wrap them onto a large handline, when I rig I simply unwind and unloop one and fit the approppriate sized sinker and hooks and loop it onto my mainline swivel.
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Great idea, love the tag btw. gonna borrow it ;) 

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I actually cheat when it comes to sinkers on the bottom

Has anyone else tried using lackie bands for attaching your sinkers to your paternoster rigs?

I use it for deep jigging of plastics, but have also started using it for bait fishing as well, as 90% of the time its your sinker that gets stuck not any of the hooks.

Loop a couple of bands together and bobs your uncle!!
Generally use this up north a bit more for jigging snapbacks in deep water when the winds up. Saves having to drop it all back down againand wind up again. the sinker just stays close to the bottom with the stretch in the lackies doing the work.

PS: Money bags for me.