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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: Long_Cast on November 08, 2013, 07:16:08 PM

Title: Have you ever experienced soft plastic lures melt inside your tackle box?
Post by: Long_Cast on November 08, 2013, 07:16:08 PM: I just spent about almost a hour cleaning the inside of an old tackle box which a few of the rubber hoochie squid lures completely melted into powder due to the chemical reaction of the lures and tackle box. As a result, it looked like someone freshly sprayed painted the tackle box with white sparkly coloured powdered paint. The tackle box was labelled as worm proof, so the actual tackle box didn't get permanently disfigured or melt, but it's a huge mess to clean up! I'm not even done yet as I had to clean or throw away my lures, sinkers, hooks that were exposed to the chemical reaction from the rubber lure that turned into pure rubbery sticky dust.

It makes me never want to buy soft plastic lures because special precautions have to be taken before storing the lure into the tackle box such as storing it in the original packaging or a zip-lock bag.
Title: Re: Have you ever experienced soft plastic lures melt inside your tackle box?
Post by: blaydRnr on November 08, 2013, 07:27:10 PM: it's actually quite common especially with soft plastic/rubber...depending on their composite and melting point along with how they react to other plastics.
Title: Re: Have you ever experienced soft plastic lures melt inside your tackle box?
Post by: Fish Assassin on November 08, 2013, 08:06:57 PM: Been there and done that.
Title: Re: Have you ever experienced soft plastic lures melt inside your tackle box?
Post by: fic on November 08, 2013, 08:30:01 PM: Seems like keeping different soft plastics separate helps a little bit for me.
Title: Re: Have you ever experienced soft plastic lures melt inside your tackle box?
Post by: Suther on November 08, 2013, 09:26:07 PM: Gotta keep those plastics sealed and separated from each other. Heard some pretty messy stories about hoochies and flashers being all melted into one big mess...
Title: Re: Have you ever experienced soft plastic lures melt inside your tackle box?
Post by: fishyfish on November 14, 2013, 09:21:27 PM: I keep a variety of hootchies in a cd/dvd holder case. It makes it easy to access and find different hootchies. Just turn the pages. Have not had any problem with them melting maybe just lucky.
Title: Re: Have you ever experienced soft plastic lures melt inside your tackle box?
Post by: firstlight on November 14, 2013, 10:00:25 PM: Have run into this numerous times.
Plastic beads and soft plastics don't get along at all.
Title: Re: Have you ever experienced soft plastic lures melt inside your tackle box?
Post by: Fishawn on November 15, 2013, 12:06:47 AM: From what I understand, it's the mineral oil that is used on the moulds when the plastic is being poured that can eat away at certain plastics.
Title: Re: Have you ever experienced soft plastic lures melt inside your tackle box?
Post by: zap brannigan on November 15, 2013, 12:21:12 AM: Yeah it is the mineral oil, also eats at your leader and a good amount of different plastics.
Title: Re: Have you ever experienced soft plastic lures melt inside your tackle box?
Post by: Ian Forbes on November 15, 2013, 03:23:37 AM: I had that happen a few times years ago and after that I wrapped all those soft baits on plastic bags or put them in jars inside the box.