Reusing Baits

[TxHawgs]

Just wondering what you guys do, when you fish a jig with a trailer or an expensive swimbait and only fish it like an hr and it's in good shape, do you pull it off the hook to reuse it? As we all know the more times you take either off and on the hook it ruins the bait. Or do you leave it on the hook or jig? I can see possibly sent trailers wanting to use new but that can get expensive, and with swimbaits most like the shadalicious if you leave the hook in you can't put it back in the original container. Kinda stupid question but would like to know what you guys do. Thanks

[Bluebasser86]

Take them off and get some Mend-It. You'll save tons of money every year if you go through many plastics. 

[TxHawgs]

47 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Take them off and get some Mend-It. You'll save tons of money every year if you go through many plastics. 

Awesome idea, does that dry hard or can you still put a hook through were the mend-it is?

[Bluebasser86]

13 minutes ago, TxHawgs said:

Awesome idea, does that dry hard or can you still put a hook through were the mend-it is?

It's maybe a touch harder but barely noticeable. There's no issue putting a hook back through the spot that it's been applied. 

[Catt]

With jig trailers I leave them on the jig, never had an issue. 

Now I will fish the same jig till I loss it or cut it off leaving the trailer on it, let it air dry & put it in a box.

[Last_Cast]

2 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

It's maybe a touch harder but barely noticeable. There's no issue putting a hook back through the spot that it's been applied. 

So how does it work? It just basically patches the worm?
Does it leave a scent?

[Bluebasser86]

44 minutes ago, chris7390 said:

So how does it work? It just basically patches the worm?
Does it leave a scent?

It's magic!! 

I think it chemically bonds them back together and there is no scent that I can smell. 

[Mike L]

I don't put them back in with the new and unused. I always take them off the hook tho and put in a separate pouch in my bag and use them up that way, if they're salvageable of course. 

 

Mike

[Turtle135]

I put the jig with the trailer still on in a small 4" x 3" plastic bag. I will usually have 6 or 7 jigs (with trailers on) in those small bags inside a gallon ziplock bag that I keep behind the seat of my kayak within easy reach.

Some of those jigs will  need to be air dried when the day is over. I do not want to put them wet back into my jig box and invite rust.

[FloridaFishinFool]

I keep a catch-all bag for miscellaneous used rubber lures. If it is still reusable it goes in there. And I pour in some Berkley gulp scent in that bag so the used lures are ready to fish.

What I try to do is to use what is in this catch-all bag first before going for something new all the time.

[WIGuide]

It depends on the bait for me. Most I will take off the hook if I can do so without destroying it and let it dry before I put it back in the pack.

[deadadrift89]

1 hour ago, FloridaFishinFool said:

I keep a catch-all bag for miscellaneous used rubber lures. If it is still reusable it goes in there. And I pour in some Berkley gulp scent in that bag so the used lures are ready to fish.

What I try to do is to use what is in this catch-all bag first before going for something new all the time.

 

Same here minus the gulp. I use a old Netbait 11" C-mac worm bag

 

 

[Hurricane]

3 hours ago, Catt said:

With jig trailers I leave them on the jig, never had an issue. 

Now I will fish the same jig till I loss it or cut it off leaving the trailer on it, let it air dry & put it in a box.

Same here...

[Mike L]

3 hours ago, FloridaFishinFool said:

I keep a catch-all bag for miscellaneous used rubber lures. If it is still reusable it goes in there. And I pour in some Berkley gulp scent in that bag so the used lures are ready to fish.

What I try to do is to use what is in this catch-all bag first before going for something new all the time.

Same as I said but you said it better

 

Mike 

[junyer357]

3 hours ago, FloridaFishinFool said:

I keep a catch-all bag for miscellaneous used rubber lures. If it is still reusable it goes in there. And I pour in some Berkley gulp scent in that bag so the used lures are ready to fish.

What I try to do is to use what is in this catch-all bag first before going for something new all the time.

I do something similar too. I actually pile mine in a certain spot on boat if im in it or in corner of truck bed if bank fishing.  At the end of day i gather them up and put them with my other fishing gear.  Then i just pick a nite and mend-it what i can and reuse them. Some i keep and frankenstein some together, especially paca craws.  

[Cgolf]

For used baits I have a couple of Rubbermaid shoe box totes I keep in the boat that I drilled a bunch of holes in the bottom to let the water drain out. I toss greenish rigged baits in one box and more natural Shad hues in another. Eventually they end up in a box of prerigged stuff I keep ready to go. 

[J._Bricker]

As Bluebasser86 said.... Mend-it X2.  Not only will it fix damaged plastics, it works really well on senkos which have a high salt content. Not too mention what combinations you can create with it.  It definitely can save you some money

[I.rar]

Just recently repaired a bunch of baits from senkos and flukes to robo worms and keitech baits with mend it. Throw them in a bag, add megastrike and I'm catching fish on baits that were once mangled. Very rarely I'll get to repair the same bait twice because it's too far gone. Usually by that point I feel I got my money's worth and trash em.