Modern plug bags have an attached pouch with slots for thin profile metals and small bucktails. This is a great option. But! If you are fishing 4, 5, and 6 oz bucktails or 4 and 5 oz Kastmaters, Deadly Dicks, Hopkins, and Crippled Herring, then you need another storage solution.
All you need to make your own jig bag is a plug bag and 1.5″ diameter SDR PVC pipe. Using a power miter saw with a stopper, cut enough PVC pipe lengths from the PVC pipe to fill your plug bag. I cut 4.5″ lengths for bucktails and 8″ lengths for metals.
Remove the plug tubes from your plug bag and replace them with the 1.5″ diameter SDR PVC tubes.
I have re-purposed my two 3-tube plug bags into a bucktail bag and a metals bag. I am always packed and ready to go, regardless of where and when I fish. Time is fish!
