Learned something new today.
Im just starting to dabble in artificial lures besides spoons and flashers and spinners. So Ive been watching the youtubes and getting tips. I now own about a dozen bags of various soft baits. Cool. Time to fish. Or maybe not.
So I decided to keep a telescoping rod and a single 3600 box in my trunk so I could be able to take a quick 20 and fish at the drop of a hat. I tossed in a handful of what I would need for a single trip. Some hooks, a couple of each baits, etc. nail clippers, pliers, etc.
So I tossed all the various baits in the same section. MISTAKE. My Yamamato and Bass pro lures were more or less OK. My YUMs and Zmans were TOAST. They were in the trunk for about 2 weeks.
First hint is there was an oily substance that from the outside looked like vaseline all over the lid where the baits came in contact with it. OK, some leaching, no biggie. NOPE. I had pretty much a solid mass of plastic. The Zmans were the worst, and were sticky and nasty. Where they touched the Bass pro stuff made the BPs hard and crusty. I had some Ned rigged baits of unknown origin that I was able to pull the hook out of like it was made of Knox Blox.
So time to get a second bag of whatever I want to fish and carry each in its own factory zip. Lesson learned.
Oh, and I HATE 20lb Flourocarbon with a PASSION. Tried spooling it 3 different ways and it refuses to play nice. It line dumps easily, and is constantly getting tangled/twisted. I had to cut tonight's fishing short because it ended up as a rats nest halfway up my rod and I ended up just saying "screw it" and cut it out and went home. Nothing was biting anyway, so no big loss.
Just put some 10lb 'carbon on the spinning rod and after a few casts, its smooth as butter.
Im just starting to dabble in artificial lures besides spoons and flashers and spinners. So Ive been watching the youtubes and getting tips. I now own about a dozen bags of various soft baits. Cool. Time to fish. Or maybe not.
So I decided to keep a telescoping rod and a single 3600 box in my trunk so I could be able to take a quick 20 and fish at the drop of a hat. I tossed in a handful of what I would need for a single trip. Some hooks, a couple of each baits, etc. nail clippers, pliers, etc.
So I tossed all the various baits in the same section. MISTAKE. My Yamamato and Bass pro lures were more or less OK. My YUMs and Zmans were TOAST. They were in the trunk for about 2 weeks.
First hint is there was an oily substance that from the outside looked like vaseline all over the lid where the baits came in contact with it. OK, some leaching, no biggie. NOPE. I had pretty much a solid mass of plastic. The Zmans were the worst, and were sticky and nasty. Where they touched the Bass pro stuff made the BPs hard and crusty. I had some Ned rigged baits of unknown origin that I was able to pull the hook out of like it was made of Knox Blox.
So time to get a second bag of whatever I want to fish and carry each in its own factory zip. Lesson learned.
Oh, and I HATE 20lb Flourocarbon with a PASSION. Tried spooling it 3 different ways and it refuses to play nice. It line dumps easily, and is constantly getting tangled/twisted. I had to cut tonight's fishing short because it ended up as a rats nest halfway up my rod and I ended up just saying "screw it" and cut it out and went home. Nothing was biting anyway, so no big loss.
Just put some 10lb 'carbon on the spinning rod and after a few casts, its smooth as butter.