The Tackle Shed!

[Rice Crackers]

Hi everyone. Not been on here for a while as I've not been fishing due to gear in storage ahead of a pending house move, anyway...

 

I've lived in flats for ten years, but now having got married and with a little lad on the way, we've just exchanged contracts on a house, which means for the first time since I was a kid I'll have a garden, which means I'm going to do what I've always promised myself I'd do and get a shed just for my fishing gear. Probably with a table, chair, a little bait fridge and a radio too... Just really can't wait to have all of my stuff organised, accessible and in one place...

 

So does anyone out there have any advice as to how I should go about doing it? Any ideas about storage? How do I stop mice destroying my nets for example? Anything I should completely avoid doing? Any kind of storage system worth getting hold of?

 

Hope this doesn't seem like a silly question but I don't really know where to start...

 

Thanks

 

 

Pete

[Andy_1984]

Yeah get a shed as bomb proof as possible. Hear quite a lot of peoples gear being stolen from sheds and its probably by someone whos seen it going in.

 

If theres space in the house keep it there. Id never leave my gear in a shed or garage.

[Vagabond]

Agree with Andy. Not only that, but don't keep all your tackle in the same place (some of mine I keep in the Isle of Man and some in Tasmania!)

 

Most of my gear is well used, and refurbished by me - which means it is in effect customised and thus easily recognisable - and I have photographic evidence of much of it.

[Mat Hillman]

I use a plastic garden tidy box for the smelly and yucky bits - bait boxes nets mats slings etc. but anything with any real value is kept in the house,

 

Mat

[chesters1]

you will never stop people pinching stuff from sheds but you can make it difficult

buy a shiplap shed not wavy edge, screw every bit together not nail *especially the roof) fill the screw heads with araldite then paint the lit,reinforce the frame especially round the door.bars on windows and black out windows

use security screws on the hinges screw through the original frame into the new one ,screw the frame onto the floor.

buy a 6ft locker and screw it to the floor and frame ,remove the shelf this will hold your rods ,buy a steel trunk and screw it to the floor and frame this is for the rest .

sounds overkill its not but buy a decent padlock and alarm ,better off put it in the loft dont forget to use the alarm

 

unfortunately with battery powered disk cutters the old fashioned padlocks are obselete buy an armoured one with the hasp within the lock once on the shackle its hard to cut ,poundland padlocks take seconds to break you need hardened everything

 

unfortunately now crims have more rights than their victims chemical detterents are risky to use nowadys

 

cctv is handy you can double the blow by SEEING your stuff getting nicked the rozzers wont do a damned thing but give you a crime number they prefer to pick on motorists than actually solve crime nowadays

 

as for friges few work in cold temperatures so pick one wisely or switch it off in the winter

Edited June 22, 2015 by chesters1

[Tigger]

I keep my gear in the house, no mice and much less chance of being burgled...no expence of buying a shed either.

[John S]

I agree, keep all but the smelly stuff in the house where it's safe, my neighbour has had his fishing tackle stolen from the shed at least twice

 

If your missus complains, inform her you'll be putting one of her rings/necklace/whatever (make sure it's very expensive) in the shed with your tackle, then if thieves come calling and make off with a few hundred pounds of fishing stuff, they'll also get your wife's stuff too. It's amazing how fast they see sense

[Puzzled]

Agree with above as unfortunately nowadays outside shed + fishing tackle = prime target for tealeaves. Happens all too often and, I think, is driven by the sell-on market at car boot sales.

Keep everything except smelly stuff in the house.

[Rice Crackers]

Thanks for your thoughts everyone...