is it ok to mix soft plastics?

[dman]

Do any of you mix softplastics in a ziplock to save space?

Is there any problems with colors blending into others?

My plastics pouch is way out of room and i cant see caryying around 2-3 of these things so i was just gonna start mixing bags together to save room.

[Siebert Outdoors]

Whenever I've tried it I always ran into bleeding problems.

[Davis]

Have had both happen to me.

With the extras that Brent has sent me I mix them. I put the beavers with the beavers but they are all different colors. So far no bleeding problems and it has been about 6 months.

Same with the Trick sticks extras that I have. Different colors are all in one plastic bag. No bleeding.

BUT I have other types of plastics from other places that are in a hard case mixed. They have bled into one another. Berkley power worms being my main culprit. They will bleed if you mix them.

Depends on the plastic used in the bait I guess.

[TournyFish001]

do not DO THIS WITH STRIKE KING 3XX!!! you will end up with a box full of gooo!!! It is like a bad chemical reaction.

[dman]

well,  maybe instead of keeping all my tubes together in this bag and craws in that bag  i'll just make bags by color.....Need a wateremelon tube,  go to the watermellon color bag.....Could be tough though,  be like reachin into a bag of camoflauge...take some time to find what you need.

[Davis]

I keep all my plastics in there original bags and store them in shoe boxes. The morning of my trip I decide on what I want to throw based on what I think the waters conditions are like. Then I'll put them in my tackle bag. I have too many plastics to take them all. In return I can do less thinking and more fishing. Sometimes I will also bring the plastics that I don't fish often at all. This forces me to work these baits more than I would if I had my old reliables.

[SPEEDBEAD.]

chartreuse and red shad are the only baits i try to keep isolated, but when i send out 'killer deals' , sometimes there will be some transfer.

tell ya what, if you put a black neon stick with a chartail, in a bag of red shad bushbugs, the tail will come out crayola red. (to the point you would have NEVER guessed what color it used to be)

in some cases, making new colors like this can be pretty entertaining...............unless you spent a whole bunch of money on them, and it was an accident.

b      

So, what you are telling us is that you "mate" plastic worms?  LOL

I like it, thats a cool idea. Most of the time it happens by accident.

You sir, are ahead of your time  LOL

[smallieking]

i keep a bunch of panfish grubs in small baggies and got the chartuse on everything    if u plan on mixing them just for a short period of time  yea its safe to mix the colors but if u are going to store them definety separate the chartuses and more furolencent colors from or more dull colors  

[Jeff C.]

some colors do bleed..

I mix some stuff.

but by color only..

if I have one that bleeds I keep it seperate,,

some colors will not transfer so they can be mixed..

put asst. green shades together

asst. browns together

and so on..

you can save space..

but ,,also I keep 2 bags of each bait,,

one of each type , style, color ect. in a bigger bag at home and take the smaller bag with me and fill it up as needed before going out to the lake.

that way I can keep a lot of them seperated, and Then I have a lot of bags with me but they are smaller and do not take up much space.

[FivePoundBluegill]

NEVER MIX SOFT PLASTIC LURES!!!

If you mix plastics you will run into so many problems with the colors of baits bleeding into other baits. I tried mixing plastics as a kid and ruined half my soft plastics. I learned my lesson then. Keep different colors of plastics in different bags at all times.

[The Next KVD]

Some of the best colors I use were bleed.  Ex. bleed white worms w/ red worms and you get worms that look like there bleeding.

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

So basically after reading all this you must realize that the most reasonable option would be to put ONLY like colors together.I dont have any problems doing that.I got tubes craws and worms all in one bag,but they are all same color scheme.It can be tough though if you are running low on a particular bait and need to find one quick.Mixing stuff like ribbon tail worms in different lengths is a pain in the arse at times.

[bassrogue]

I buy clear soft plastic bags and take my plastics out of their original bags. Just makes them easier to see in my plastics tackle bag.

I've had soft plastics melt ziploc bags, melt each other and bleed color on each other, so I don't mix plastics.

BR

 

[Big-O]

There are many soft plastics manufacturers that use non bleed dyes and still others that use dyes that bleed extremely bad. Soft plastics are a form of PVC plastic thus made from oil base. The color dyes are additives also oil based to blend with liquid plastic before molding process. Even the best color and plastic baits will bleed after time especially if allowed to heat up in sun etc. It's the nature of the beast. Best to keep separated  as previously noted, in zip locks if you want to maintain same color schemes.

Heck, I kinda like some of the colors that just happen to show up when bleeding occurs. Doesn't seem to bother the fish catch ratio a bit.