are you rubbing your soft plastics to dull them?

[A-Jay]

9 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

I don’t buy jeans with holes already in them either - mine all come naturally from daily fishing wear and tear ?

I thought you were going to say that the bass rub up your bait for you 

and that they do a bang up job !

#255

A-Jay

[VolFan]

Is it winter?!??

[J Francho]

Just now, VolFan said:

Is it winter?!??

Christmas in July!

[TriStateBassin106]

It's a Confidence thing and I don't really know if it makes a big difference, I will say this though. For some reason Bass love a chewed up TRD. Few weeks ago I caught like 19 bass on the roughed up TRD in green pumpkin. Eventually it ripped and had to be discarded. 

[DinkDreams]

I’ve done it both ways, and noticed no difference. If I’m wacky rigging a Senko and I don’t put an o ring on it, it usually doesn’t make it back to me before it breaks apart so I don’t bother. Only time I’ll do it is if I’m fishing an elaztech bait, because I’m usually fishing them weighted regardless and if it loses the salt a little faster it isn’t gonna make much of a difference. 

[GRiver]

I think EVERYONE needs to go fishing….LOL. No worm rubbing’, jig trimming, or other kinks….. 

Just go fishing hahaha

[LrgmouthShad]

4 minutes ago, GRiver said:

I think EVERYONE needs to go fishing….LOL. No worm rubbing’, jig trimming, or other kinks….. 

Just go fishing hahaha

Bassresource dismissed. We will reconvene once we have regained our sanity

[DinkDreams]

1 minute ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Bassresource dismissed. We will reconvene once we have regained our sanity

Summer fishing is slow and the heat cooks our brains!

[Bankbeater]

I fish my plastics straight out of the package.  Fishing them in the thick vegetation and in rip rap roughs them up fast enough.

[Way north bass guy]

7 hours ago, Darth-Baiter said:

i use a silicon tube to wacky my senkos.  i dont use the clamp, but just thread the worm on.  as it slides on, it plows the salt up and really dulls and lightens the worm.  bass kill it.  when i tex rig them, i try to rub them, but my soft office worker fingers dont do the same job.

 

my zoom worms, i rub  to get the grit up.   am i wasting my time?

I don’t worry about that, just use some right out of the package and they work fine for me. 
 

Now, if you want your baits roughed up, box them up and mail them up here to me, I’ll use my rough old stonemason hands to make em just right for ya, no charge, as long as you pay the return shipping ?. 

[roadwarrior]

Try MegaStrike instead.

 

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Megastrike_Fish_Attractant/descpage-MEGAATR.html

[detroit1]

I thought we were supposed to stretch senkos to "activate" them. Hmm...

[Darth-Baiter]

I should have found a synonym for “rub”.   you all are dirty. 

[Sphynx]

7 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Bassresource dismissed. We will reconvene once we have regained our sanity

May as well shut her down then...plenty of us weren't sane to start with...

[Columbia Craw]

The technique is referred to as scuffing and started in the late 70’s by a guide in Tennesee. He carried 400 Emory cloth in his tackle box and never allowed anyone to observe him scuff his plastics and shiny lead bullet sinkers.  The secret got out when the guides client saw him rubbing his lure with sand paper.  Google it.  You won’t find anything.  Time for bed.

[scaleface]

If youre going to rub a worm down , do it before inserting the hook .

[ironbjorn]

I don't do this on purpose, no, but there might be some merit to it because I've always found that chewed up soft plastics get more bites and I'm not the only one who has noticed this.

[scaleface]

I do rub the gizits and it seems the more chewed up they are the better . Probably just confimation bias .on my part .

[GoneFishingLTN]

On 7/13/2022 at 1:13 AM, Columbia Craw said:

The technique is referred to as scuffing and started in the late 70’s by a guide in Tennesee. He carried 400 Emory cloth in his tackle box and never allowed anyone to observe him scuff his plastics and shiny lead bullet sinkers.  The secret got out when the guides client saw him rubbing his lure with sand paper.  Google it.  You won’t find anything.  Time for bed.

Huh where did you hear of this? was the guide successful seems silly but interested in history

[AlabamaSpothunter]

On 7/13/2022 at 6:09 AM, scaleface said:

If youre going to rub a worm down , do it before inserting the hook .

That's a good way to go blind ?

[Darth-Baiter]

1 minute ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

That's a good way to go blind ?

dood!!!  i was mid coffee drink!!!  hahaha..

[waymont]

You guys who "don't have time to rub" your plastics....come on. 

What's it take two seconds while you're putting the bait on?

Sheesh.

[WRB]

When Berkley Power worms 1st came out we did sand them to help release the attractant not to dull them.

Tom

 

[Susky River Rat]

I have boiled stuff that I thought I was too stiff. I do think the fish perfect a floppy worm.

[Bird]

Don't think I've ever messaged my soft plastics but I've been known to pull on elaztech. ?