How the PLUSINNO 137pc Tackle Kit Changed My Season

I used to be the guy with the milk crate. You know the one. Plugs rattling around loose, hooks in a rusty tin, weights and swivels mixed together in the bottom of a plastic bag. Every trip started the same way: fifteen minutes of digging and untangling before I ever wet a line.

Last spring it finally cost me a good fish. I was on the lake at first light and the bass were busting shad along a rocky point. While I was still digging through that crate looking for the one crankbait I knew was in there somewhere, the fish went quiet. I sat there another hour and never got another bite. That was the morning I decided my gear was working against me.

That's when I ordered the PLUSINNO 137pc Tackle Kit. Not because I needed more lures. I had plenty of lures, scattered through every pocket of my jacket, the floorboard of the truck, and the bottom of the boat. I needed a system, and this kit is a system that shows up in one box. One hundred thirty-seven pieces, a hard case with trays, and enough crankbaits, spoons, hooks, and weights to cover most of what I fish for in a season.

When it showed up, I opened it on the tailgate and went through it like a kid at Christmas. The trays are laid out so you can see what you've got without dumping everything out. Crankbaits in one tray, spoons in another, hooks and weights in the small compartments, all of it latched shut and ready to ride in the truck or the jon boat. That sounds like a small thing until you've spent twenty years digging through a crate.

The first real test came on a Saturday morning in April. I grabbed the kit, my rod, and a cup of coffee, and I was on the bank with a line in the water before my buddy even got his vest on. He asked where I'd been hiding the good stuff. I told him the truth: it was all in one box now. That's when I knew the kit was worth it, not because of any single lure, but because it got me fishing sooner than I had in years.

I had a line in the water twenty minutes before my buddy did that morning, and he's fished that lake longer than I have.

The proof came over the next few months. I fished that kit hard from April through August, mostly from the jon boat on the lake and from the bank on the river. The crankbaits ran true out of the package. Not every one of them matched what the bass were eating, but a couple became my go-to patterns when the fish were on shad. The spoons did their job on days the bass were finicky, and the hooks and weights handled the rest. I caught more keepers this summer than I did in the previous two seasons combined, and I didn't change a single thing about how I fish except how I carry my tackle.

I'm not saying these lures are magic. They're not. They're good, honest lures that do what lures are supposed to do, and because they were organized and easy to get to, I actually used them. The box is the part that matters most. It keeps everything sorted, it fits behind the seat of my truck, it rides fine in the jon boat, and Scout doesn't get tangled in loose line every time I open it.

Now the honest part, because you deserve it. Not everything in the PLUSINNO kit earned a permanent spot in my rotation. Some of the smaller hooks are lighter than I like for catfish, so I still buy heavy catfish hooks separately. A couple of the crankbaits get snagged easily in the rocks on my river, so I save those for the lake. And the case is a tackle box, not a vault. I would not throw it in the bed of the truck with a cooler on top of it. Keep it behind the seat or in a dry spot in the boat and it'll treat you right.

I've also learned to treat the kit as a starting point instead of an ending point. I swap out the pieces I don't reach for and add the ones I trust, like the heavy catfish hooks and a few jig heads I've used for years. That's the whole idea. You're not marrying the contents. You're buying a system that keeps your gear straight so you spend your time fishing instead of digging.

What I'd Tell You If We Were Sitting at My Kitchen Table

If you're just starting out, or if you're like I was and your tackle has taken over every bag you own, the PLUSINNO kit is a good place to land. It gives you a working set of lures, hooks, and weights, and it gives you a box that keeps them straight. You'll replace some of it as you figure out what you actually fish for. That's normal. That's how it's supposed to work.

What I would not do is buy it expecting it to be the last tackle you ever need. No kit is. Buy it for the organization. Use the lures that work on your water, swap out the rest, and you'll be ahead of where you were by the second trip. And if you're buying it as a gift, that's a solid move too. It shows up ready to fish, and the person opening it won't have to run out and buy a box and lures and hooks before they can use it. I'd buy it again tomorrow.