Yep, I guess that this happens as you get older; my tackle bag just won’t hold what I think it should!
As a matter of fact I could hardly carry the dang thing anymore. Years ago my dear wife bought me a tackle bag from Wally World and while it has held up well the plastic boxes fasteners have about had it.  I am in the process of replacing them with Plano 2-3700 utility boxes. While I’m at it I am also sorting. That has to be the toughest thing in the world; deciding what to keep. My Grandson has become a “tackle junkie” so I am going to load him up. 

Hey Pondhopper! I thought you just "lightened up" your tackle bag. One way to do that is TO QUIT BUYING STUFF! 
But what fun is that?

thats cool your going to give old tackle to your Grandson.

Yep, I guess that this happens as you get older; my tackle bag just won’t hold what I think it should!
As a matter of fact I could hardly carry the dang thing anymore. Years ago my dear wife bought me a tackle bag from Wally World and while it has held up well the plastic boxes fasteners have about had it.  I am in the process of replacing them with Plano 2-3700 utility boxes. While I’m at it I am also sorting. That has to be the toughest thing in the world; deciding what to keep. My Grandson has become a “tackle junkie” so I am going to load him up. 

hey pm me your address and i will send your grandson a couple bags of some hand pours. what colors also.

Well, I know some who know me for long are going to find it hard to believe but my tackle bag is also shrinking  .

There used to be a time when I carried bags and bags and bags of soft plastics, after years of doing so one day I came to think about it in detail, how many worms I may need in a trip ? the most I´ve spent were 5 worms ... that mean that the remaining 15 only took a ride so no need to carry them 15 plus the remaining bags and bags and bags which only add up in weight and bulk.

The first thing I did was to organize the soft plastics and reduce the size of the t-box, 5 worms in each color I fish the most and that´s it ! now I only carry a 3700 box for the soft plastics.

Same baits always work if you fish the same place over and over again, no need to carry 100 spinnerbaits, purchased a small spinnerbait box holding only 6 spinnerbaits, the ones I always catch fish with.

Same thing happened to cranks, now I only carry another 3700 with cranks + some swimbaits I fish the most.

What I´m going to do with the rest of my stuff ? nothing, I am a tackle junkie and I won´t give away my collection. Heck, it took me years of purchasing stuff to reach to that level and hundreds & hundreds of dollars spent in stuff I don´t use but that I like to own.

My bag weighs about 40 or 50lbs but I still can't make myself take anything out. I always say "I might need that" and I don't even use a 1/16 of my tackle. I always go back to the same thing.

I'm going to a club style lake this Sat and I know what they will bite and I still have 4 plano boxes full of stuff they won't bite not to mention all the soft plastics that I can carry and they only bite june bug this time of year!!