Please don't exile me from FAOL for the folowing idea. After fishing almost exclusively with the long rod for the last several years I decided that I would get some bass plugs and give them a try. I obtained a bunch of plugs and was stuck with how to store them in the tackle box without getting them marred/scratched up.

My solution was to case the lures in those pieces of foam pipe designed to protect water pipes from freezing. Works pretty good & the little scraps of foam can be cut into ants, beetles, etc.

Tim