Pre-Rigging Trailers Before Fishing?

[ColdSVT]

Salt is an electrolyte

Actually it is two

Na+ and Cl-

If you speak medical lol

[long island basser]

Yep

[aavery2]

Actually it is two

Na+ and Cl-

If you speak medical lol

Touche

[Ozark_Basser]

Humidity is water vapor until it reaches the same temperature as air, then becomes fluid known as dew point.

Nickel plated steel hooks have galvanic metals that react with a electrolyte like dissolved salt in water, if there is a path to connect them. The result is galvanic corrosion, the iron oxides you see is known as rust.

Corrosion prevention is complex, use common sense and remove your soft plastics after using them before storing your hooks/jigs.

Tom

This is true as well.  Cl- will bond with practically any metal available.  The reaction not only degrades the material but would leave it open to rusting in the case of a nickle plated hook. So leaving trailers on your hooks in damp areas is pretty much just asking for trouble. 

[pbizzle]

I use chigger craws on my football jigs a lot, and after a few fish eating it they'll start to get ripped up. Once you try to remove a ripped trailer from a jig, and then put it back on it's pretty much just destroyed. That's why instead of removing them I'll just leave them on. That's just with football jigs though. I don't really have that problem with other jig types.

[annexation]

I have a box of pre-rigged jigs that I just open and turn about in my hands individually every now and then. I know from experience that it's best to rig them on the water, but winter sucks and pouring over my tackle in the meantime is cathartic.

[Heron]

I always pre-rig trailers, and only remove them as needed.   Ive found that excessive replacement of trailers causes unnecessary damage to the plastic.    

 

Ive encountered no other problems by doing this.