Crankbait Keeper

[InEccess]

I'm looking for a plastic box that clips around my fishing rod to encase my crankbaits on my way to, from, and on the water. I hate how the treble hooks tangle themselves around everything, as well as scratch crescents into my fishing rod. I've tried the canvas covers with the Velcro liner, but the treble hooks just hook into that as well.

If anyone could point me to the website for these crankbait keepers, I'd be most grateful.

[Lancer6]

Originally Posted by InEccess

I'm looking for a plastic box that clips around my fishing rod to encase my crankbaits on my way to, from, and on the water. I hate how the treble hooks tangle themselves around everything, as well as scratch crescents into my fishing rod. I've tried the canvas covers with the Velcro liner, but the treble hooks just hook into that as well.

If anyone could point me to the website for these crankbait keepers, I'd be most grateful.

InExcess, (Spellchecker on, sorry.)

Here's the solution that works very well for me:

First, I don't leave lures dangling from the rod tip unless I'm rotating between rods every few casts. This applies to soft plastics so well as hard baits. On a T-rig, reeling the weight tightly into the tip guide, or having it reeled for you via the reel handle being bumped about, will ultimately result in a damaged guide, usually the insert being knocked out of the frame.
With hard baits, lures left hanging from the tip will grab each other, carpet, or you.
Sooooo...With C-rigs I use a Velcro wrap just ahead of the front portion of the grip. Like this;
http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/st..._SearchResults
For T-rigs, I use that same item OR I push the point of the hook through the plastic and stick it into the little keeper one finds on most rods nowadays.
If your rod(s) have no keepers built in, try these;
http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/st..._SearchResults

For hard baits; those with trebles, mostly, I hook the rear treble on the keeper mentioned in the previous sentence then apply these;
http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/st..._SearchResults
to the remaining trebles. Problem solved.
It takes only seconds to remove the bonnets when preparing to cast, put them in a pocket, then reattach them when you put that rod aside.
Of course, you may occasionally find you've made a cast with a bonnet still attached...I have, especially in the dark

Leaving any lure, for any reason, at the rod tip courts disaster, regardless of whether or not the hooks are shielded. One rod, bounced over the side during travel or for whatever cause may well take others with it.

L6