Take a few film cassettes, load them up with beads, swivels, small hooks etc

Most anglers are tackle freaks……we all have more tackle than we will ever use in a lifetime and no doubt like me, somewhere in your shed or loft you will inevitably have a “come in handy box” chock full of tackle that has gone out of fashion, been superseded by something much better, or bits that you bought in a sale which comes under the heading of “one day!!”On a more practical note, it is also true that we often take more tackle fishing with us than we need to. I have often seen anglers with several full boxes of a hundred hooks quietly rusting away in the bottom of their tackle box. Whole boxes of swivels going green and horrid, bulk spools of line that are there from one season to the next…how the tackle manufacturers must love us!!It makes a lot of sense to apply the “just enough” principle that so many of us have had to apply in our workaday lives in the past few decades to our fishing expeditions. Not only does it reduce the weight and volume of tackle that we tend to carry across the beach and pontoon to the charter boat, but it also make economic sense to keep your stock of hooks, swivels and bits and bobs at home in the dry, taking “just enough” and a few spares fishing with you.Take a few film cassettes, load them up with beads, swivels, small hooks etc. Mark the cassettes up with a felt tip pen to indicate their contents and you have the basis of a cheap and practical tackle stowage system. Items that are too big for the cassettes can easily be stowed in a rig wallet or heavy duty zip-loc baggies.

If this sounds a little un-fashionable and not quite so pretty as a clunky tackle box don’t worry about it. Symo’s Law applies in these circumstances ” the volume of tackle taken expands to equalise the vacuum found in the tackle box!!” Sorry!