Every now and then one has to contemplate life's important themes. One of these clearly is: how many pole rig winders do you carry as an optimum. I have a drawer with 21 in them and 6 longer ones in a second drawer and recently added a small box with 10 more winders. However I keep switching between lean and complete.....
How many do you carry and why?
i tend to fish three types of venues and therefore have rigs made for each (obviously only carry the appropriate)
narrow canal/drain ... mostly top 3 (Daiwa) or shorter, with pole floats varying from 3x10 styls up to about 0.6g (c. 30 in total)
slow to moderate flow rivers (eg Nene to Trent) without too much depth. Made on top 4 or 5, Another 30 or so, from 0.2g up to 2g, plus 12 stick floats on winders.
Fast and deep powerful rivers (Wye or Shrewsbury for me). Bigger stick floats 12 or 14 no.4 shot, lo get whip rigs 3-5g, flat floats from 3g to 20g, bleak rigs ... 20 odd winders.
so approx 86 in total ... but never more than 36 (the stick floats are all doubled up). They all fit under the lid or between the two sliding sections of my AS1 box.
Reading your replies with great interest another question arises (which may have been lurking in the dark all the time): if you have hundreds of them: how long do you keep them? I usually replace Nylon after fishing one or two matches. The latter in case of not catching any big ones, but I mean in case you didn't use them?
when not in use mine are “lurking in the dark all the time” - so nylon and hooks don’t deteriorate.
Usually I’ll trash the rig through a tangle before i feel like it all needs replacing.