(TLDR at bottom) So i was fishing for a long time in cold weather, and it was slightly drizzling. I had kept one of my tackle boxes open almost the whole ordeal which was about 5 hours. i was cold and in a hurry to get out, i closed my tackle, put it in my bag, and didnt touch for a week or two. I went fishing and saw just rust water covering the bottom of that tackle box and all the lures and hooks were rusty. i let it sun dry and then later came home, and cleaned them fairly thoroughly with some stainless steel wipes, rinsed them off then dried them. They are still kinda rusty but it kinda depended on the lure, like ny $15 lucky craft jerkbait just has a tiny bit of rust while some others are still pretty bad and i had a hook break cleaning them. so my question is, what shoud i do? should i replace the trebles on all of them or just the bad ones(this is $100 ish worth of treble hook lures). I’ve heard to soak the stuff in vinegar, for things like the expensive jerkbait would i have to replace the trebles bc they are mostly good? any suggestions appreciated.
TLDR: I left my tackle in the rain, let it sit for weeks, and now its all rusty, what should i do?
