Trailers?

[Jonny15678]

Is it ok to leave a paddle tail trailer on a chatterbait or a baby brush hog on a EWG. Or can this cause rust?

[RoLo]

 

I must confess that I rarely look for rust, so haven't found any  ? 

 

Roger

[Manifestgtr]

I might be about to get a lecture but hey...

 

I always leave my trailers on. The fewer I go through, the fewer I have to buy. I haven’t really noticed any rust from that particular practice. I always give my baits a good shake before putting them away. I don’t really like thought of water in my boxes regardless of hooks and rust.

 

The only thing you might notice is that some of the colors might bleed a little bit into eachother...especially the whites and ghosts. I try to keep those away from the other stuff 

[Jig Man]

The ones I make don’t have any salt so they stay on.  Trailers with salt are the ones that you have to be concerned about.

[Luke Barnes]

I always leave them on and never noticed any rust. The only thing i won't leave on a book is a Gulp Minnow. 

[813basstard]

Science has proven not going fishing enough is what causes rust.

[Spankey]

One of my favorite baits as a trailer is the 4” Zoom Curly Tail Worm. Body is perfectly cylindrical, tail is very ribbon like. I just bite the body length off to what I want. I have no rusting problems. Do look to see if my hooks are sharp. Might be more important than rust. 

[browne762]

I normally leave plastics on my hooks unless storing them for the winter. I do find rust from time to time. Keitechs seem to be the worst and then Zman products. Normally it will wipe off pretty easy or with a very minor sanding. 

[Bluebasser86]

I've lost more than a few baits to rust from leaving trailers on. I just take them off after each trip now.

[Bass Junke]

On 6/26/2020 at 8:02 AM, browne762 said:

I normally leave plastics on my hooks unless storing them for the winter. I do find rust from time to time. Keitechs seem to be the worst and then Zman products. Normally it will wipe off pretty easy or with a very minor sanding. 

I fish at least 3 times a week. I tend to leave soft plastic on my hooks. I have a Zoom horny toad on a the same hook since last year. That was kind of an experiment, those things say super salty. I was skeptical, they don't sink very fast. Well that hook still looks brand new. 

 

On the flip side. Z- Man big TRD on a Z-Man mushroom head. Had that rigged up probably for the later half of last year. Those things really are loaded with salt. Combine that with the Z-Man durability, it lasts forever. Well, the shank of the hook was rusted and pitted pretty bad. Like you, I sanded the rust off and cleaned up the pits, and re-painted the head and painted the shank with Testors model paint. The integrity of the hook was in question though. 

 

Heck I'm in Mass. and I don't fish a lot of waters with fish that have hook-straightening power, and I hate throwing tackle away, I'll throw it out there. So I rigged it up again with another big TRD caught 2 fish and lost the rig to a snag a couple of days later. Oh well, better than loosing a fish and a rig all at once. 

[Lobocito]

I was thinking about this question but from a different perspective - "freshness" of the plastic rather than rust. Strike King loves their coffee scent, keitechs are super smelly, googan has whatever their slaunch sauce is. 

 

How much of an effect do you guys think those scents actually have? I was about to rig a keitech onto a new swim jig and when that smell hit me I was like... huh... maybe I should wait until I'm about to toss it to rig it??? 

 

From a rust perspective, i've never had the plastic cause rust on my lures.

[Elkins45]

I’ve taken to gluing my ZMan plastic baits to their jig heads, and you have to store them in their original bags. I’ve noticed that the Zinkers (which have a lot of salt) will rust up a hook pretty badly. I don’t reallly have a solution other than to stone the hook whenever I tie it on.