Rubber Lures

[TedderX]

What is the best way to store rubber worms/lizards/etc?

Is it best to leave them in the bag or is it ok to put them in the plastic plano boxes?

 

[Bluebasser86]

I prefer the original packages. 

[ErikmonBillsfon]

In my anti gravity storage device. That way nothing is ever bent or kinked and everything floats around perfectly straight as the day it was poured. 

For real tho almost everything is in original package. I'll take one or two out to pre rig on a hook or jig so I don't have to worry about lining it up straight on the hook while I'm on the water. I've heard guys will boil lures for like 10 seconds to fix any plastics that bend inside the bag. Is there any brand that can't be fixed this way like zman or other soft reactive brands?

Also look in the next page or two on the tackle thread this is asked every other week and there's alot more answers.

[Bluebasser86]

22 minutes ago, ErikmonBillsfon said:

I've heard guys will boil lures for like 10 seconds to fix any plastics that bend inside the bag. Is there any brand that can't be fixed this way like zman or other soft reactive brands?

I've had some kinked Zman baits but found that often just removing them from the package and letting them sit out in the open air they will fix themselves, same goes with Zman baits that are stuck together. 

[ErikmonBillsfon]

Thanks ya that's what I do know I lay out my finesse worms laying on their flat side and lay them straight on the my fishing gear table. Also just got some zman speed craw and some had one claw folded over so I layer them out. Really pumped to use zman this year if the fish in CT ever drink their coffee and wake up.

[TedderX]

I was just thinking along the lines of them melting inside the bag or something.  It gets a tad bit warm in Georgia.

[Bluebasser86]

On 4/22/2016 at 9:40 PM, TedderX said:

I was just thinking along the lines of them melting inside the bag or something.  It gets a tad bit warm in Georgia.

We get plenty of triple digit days in KS, never had any melt on me.

[Catt]

I do both with no problems!

[edfitzvb]

+2

If they are in a bag, I usually leave them there, but I have numerous soft plastics that live in the Plano type storage boxes also. Of the two, I would recommend that they stay in the bag. They seem freshest then.The boxes don't seem to react like the old tackle boxes used to, and I usually add scent to make the soft baits slippery and fresh

[Oklahoma Mike]

I like to keep my stored on a 33-1/2 degree incline, cryogenically frozen, and contained in a hyberbaric air chamber. When I'm ready to fish them I start to slowly increase the temperature over a three week period from -280* F to about 68* F, which I find to be the perfect final temperature. The trick is to gradually increase the incline in tune with the rising temp so that by the time you reach 68* the worms are now hanging on a perfectly vertical plane. 

I'm sure many people here will try to tell you that an initial 22 degree incline and -310* temp will yield a better result, but it all just comes down to personal preference IMO!

[smalljaw67]

Leave them in the bag they come in and get a soft sided worm binder to hold the bags. One thing I'd like for you to do as well is call the baits, "soft plastic" instead of rubber, little kids call soft plastic baits rubber worms. I know it is trivial but it is a pet peeve, it hits a nerve, the same nerve when I hear the term "pole" instead or rod, it makes me think of Mayberry RFD....LOL.

[everythingthatswims]

I boiled some zoom baits one time, it seems like there is some sort of coating on them that comes off when you boil them, and then they stick to everything and are less durable. I just make sure they aren't bent up when I buy them.

[S. Sass]

I found for me best results is to leave them in the bag until needed. I do have some in some Plano boxes just because I bought in bulk and I don't want to tote 10lbs of one exact color, shape, and size of worm for one day of fishing. I would have 100 lbs of just worms to have 10 colors if I didn't pull a few out.  

He shows here how to straiten the kinked or bent up baits without making a mess.