I am making my first winter trip to Lake Chelan today. I usually get after the kokanee up there earlier than this. Weather and other commitments got in my way, but I am very excited to be able to finally go. One thing that I wasn’t looking forward to was sorting out my gear. I have a bad habit of just throwing things in boxes and bags, figuring I will clean up the mess when I get home. Sometimes that just happen. I am onto the next fishing trip and things just keep piling up. I pulled everything out and although it looked pretty bad I got things in order pretty quickly. I can credit this to a couple of very handy items that I use to store my gear. I have some of those dodger jackets from Mauk Fishing Stuff. This is the best way I have found to store my Kokabow blades. It holds twenty of them and it folds down to a very slim size. The spinners and squidders go on a leader board made by FISHENG Products. You can put three of these boards, loaded with leaders, into a Plano box. I have 45 leaders tied with swivels, so they are ready to go in a snap. These two products really cut my prep time for my trip to Chelan for kokanee. You can learn more about these storage items by going to the Product Review Page on my web site.