how to care for tackle or not

tubber

tubber

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After your last trip of the season rinse all flashers,lures, helmets,plugs, hootchies etc.. and hang them around an old styrofoam cooler to dry. Place the cooler on the deck of your garaged boat for winter. Pile gardening equipment, Christmas lights, snow shovels etc...on top of that. Tip the box over a few times while looking for binoculars, pliers or whatever. Spend March-June untangling the bird's nest of leaders, removing bits of melted styrofoam from hootchies, baitrix bodies, and the fibreglass deck and mahogany hatch cover that it is now stuck to.
 
Don't bother rinsing anything. Just leave everything in a big tangled heap to rust.
 
I rinse everything in soapy water. Rinse again in cool clean fresh water . Lay everything out to air dry. Ensure that all storage compartments are clean and dry . This seems to be the biggest cultprit. If the storage containers are contaminated with even a few salt crysatls then you will have a mess of salty goo come spring.

Then again every spring I still have a big heaping salty mess of goo to deal with.

So........... be with you.

Good luck
 
A good rinse of the whole tackle box and all the tackle is good. And then give everything a shot of WD-40. :)
 
Clean with "Visa" or "Mastercard".
Let the old stuff - that didn't catch fish anyway - rust, and visit your local tackle emporium with your cleaner card.
They will love you and you'll have all this shiny new stuff that is guaranteed to work.
Much easier.
 
put it all in the dishwasher. washed rinsed and dried just like that. the lures hang nice off the upper racks and the tackle box fits in the bottom.
 
Keep the plastics on the top rack.:D

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To keep my lures looking brand new I don't take my lures out of the package even when I am fishing with them. Just like my mom never took the plastic off the new couch. :D
 
quote:Originally posted by haverodwilltravel

To keep my lures looking brand new I don't take my lures out of the package even when I am fishing with them. Just like my mom never took the plastic off the new couch. :D
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Ya, I leave mine in the packages too, but I go you one better.

I leave them at the tackle store. Whenever I go to Campbell River, I tour the tackle stores and inspect my lures. They are always nice and shiny and never need cleaning. Only one small problem, they seem to lose some of my gear from time to time, but eventually they find it and put it back on the shelf where it belongs. [:o)] [:o)] [:o)]

Jim's Fishing Charters
www.JimsFishing.com
http://ca.youtube.com/user/Sushihunter250
 
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