Does anyone fix and "reuse" soft plastics?

[livemusic]

Have been meaning to ask... the soft plastics like senkos, worms, flukes tear up pretty quickly. Does anyone fix with superglue or even melt and pour into molds? I watched a video yesterday of Roland Martin (always great on youtube) and he showed mold you could buy to melt and recast soft plastics.

 

This is a bit of a sidebar but I also watched another video lately of a guy who wraps dental floss around the hook of a crappie jig and then adds a dab of super glue, when adds the plastic jig body and claims he can catch a couple dozen crappie on one body. Wondering if that might work in bass fishing. Whatever, if melting down is feasible, you could do that when the body gets trashed.

 

Let me know if anyone uses super glue or melts down. TIA!

[Mobasser]

Look up Mend It. Sometimes older chewed up plastics work better than new ones

[QUAKEnSHAKE]

Mend-It has saved me hundreds of $$$$

[galyonj]

 

1 hour ago, livemusic said:

This is a bit of a sidebar but I also watched another video lately of a guy who wraps dental floss around the hook of a crappie jig and then adds a dab of super glue, when adds the plastic jig body and claims he can catch a couple dozen crappie on one body. Wondering if that might work in bass fishing. Whatever, if melting down is feasible, you could do that when the body gets trashed.

 

I don't use superglue (mostly because I just don't think to take any with me) but it's very common to put a dab on the hook shank or jighead to help keep soft plastics where you put them.

 

You'll probably wanna use the gel instead of the liquid.

[livemusic]

19 minutes ago, galyonj said:

 

 

I don't use superglue (mostly because I just don't think to take any with me) but it's very common to put a dab on the hook shank or jighead to help keep soft plastics where you put them.

 

You'll probably wanna use the gel instead of the liquid.

 

Why is that? I didn't know they make a gel, haven't bought any in years.

[galyonj]

1 minute ago, livemusic said:

 

Why is that? I didn't know they make a gel, haven't bought any in years.

 

Stays where you put it. Keeps you from gluing yourself to the jighead. To the plastic. To the rod handle. To yourself.

 

Edit: And you don't really need the dental floss if you're gonna use superglue. It might be nice, but it's not at all necessary.

[Skunkmaster-k]

Heck yes ! I enjoy pouring and injecting my own baits. 

[livemusic]

49 minutes ago, Skunkmaster-k said:

Heck yes ! I enjoy pouring and injecting my own baits. 

 

Do you re-use baits or pour new plastic? And what do you "inject?" Flavor or smell I suppose.

[galyonj]

12 minutes ago, livemusic said:

 

Do you re-use baits or pour new plastic? And what do you "inject?" Flavor or smell I suppose.

 

Soft plastic baits are made by either pouring heated liquid plastisol (this is the plastic that non-elaztech soft plastics are made from) into an open-top mold, or injecting that same heated plastic into a closed mold.

 

@Skunkmaster-k is talking about melting down and repouring old, torn up plastics.

[Skunkmaster-k]

I do both. You can only remelt them so many times before they smell burnt   I have added a little crawfish scent from time to time but what I was talking about is sucking the plastic into an injector ( syringe looking contraption ) and pushing it into a mold. 

[Deleted account]

Yes.

[GetFishorDieTryin]

6 hours ago, livemusic said:

Have been meaning to ask... the soft plastics like senkos, worms, flukes tear up pretty quickly. Does anyone fix with superglue or even melt and pour into molds? I watched a video yesterday of Roland Martin (always great on youtube) and he showed mold you could buy to melt and recast soft plastics.

 

This is a bit of a sidebar but I also watched another video lately of a guy who wraps dental floss around the hook of a crappie jig and then adds a dab of super glue, when adds the plastic jig body and claims he can catch a couple dozen crappie on one body. Wondering if that might work in bass fishing. Whatever, if melting down is feasible, you could do that when the body gets trashed.

 

Let me know if anyone uses super glue or melts down. TIA!

check out world worst fishing on YT, he has a few videos where he melts down baits and remolds them.  If you think molding your own baits may be to involved, try mend it.  Its fantastic for expensive plastics like keitechs.  You can at least double the amount of fish per bait.

[MAN]

I used to keep a scrap bin on my workbench that I threw all my broken, tore, old soft plastics in it.  When it got pretty full I would spend half a day sifting through and matching colors the best I could, then melting and pouring.  Some of the best fish I have caught came from just a hodgepodge of different plastic colors all combined.