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Are you supposed to reuse soft plastics? or do you toss them?
Got back from a trip. Was using Gulp 3 inch chart. minnow grubs. Thing is, i rig them with a leadhead and when i take the hook out to re-bag them the barb rips a huge hole in the lure. is there any way to prevent that?
i'm never going to de-barb my bass hooks again.
There are certainly a couple of ways to make your plastics last longer the easiest way is take them off with the same fragility as you put them on with. But when they get really bad and you are running out of something that is working, I keep a little tube of silicone caulking and squirt it into the hole it will reseal and close them and remain soft so you can put the hook back through it after it cures an hour or so. The biggest problem with soft plastics is that after a couple fish get caught on them, either the tails gets bit off or they begin to slide down the hook during the cast and then in the water it's a junked up pile of jelly dragging along and the fish won't touch it. After the right patern is established (color of bait, size of bait and amount of weight) you'll find you can bite off the first half inch or so and spit out the torn up area making the bait a little shorter so you have a new area of jelly to put the hook back through and out of. or you can affix it to the hook (or leadhead) with a little super glue so it stops sliding down (fouling itself during the cast). I'll bet you didn't know that when setting up a grub you always have the curley tail's tip facing up, did you. That's so the tip isn't rutting the bottom and losing it's fish attracting action. A three inch grub is a good size for spring and a four or five incher would be better in fall. Another thing you can do is save all the old plastics (separate them by color) and you can re melt and pour your own with them adding a little base material. One thing I do to almost every really (almost too soft) soft bait is make it harder. I take out the softening agent by wicking it out, all you have to do is cut up a shipping box and lay the baits out on a piece of corrugated. Within two days turn them over and you'll understand that by leaving them longer than a couple of days will almost make them stiff. Try split shotting grubs using worm hooks and a split shot fifteen to twenty inches above the bait. You'll catch twice as much! They present themselves lighter and more life like.
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