The stick jackets have been one of my best purchases last year. I have an open rod box (no tubes), and I can lay 10 - 15 rods in there now with the stick jackets on, and they never tangle. You can't pull them off from the tip - you can actually hang them up by the ring on the tip, and the pressure keeps the rod in there. You just grab the bottom (closest to the reel) and they slide right off with one hand. I usually just pull the rod out of the box with one hand, and hold onto the bottom with the other, and they never leave my rod box - they go on just as easy. I get hooks in them on occasion, and all you have to do is push the ends together (to fatten it - or expand the strands, and the hook falls out).