Rusty lures
 

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:06:46 -0700, "Gordon"
wrote:

Marine critters are very sensitive to smell and it is thought the
WD40
washes off the human oils that smell bad to fish.
Other oils can also attract fish. One experiment was tried by
dipping
herring in a dirty bilge, They caught more fish. Novice women
fisherpersons
often do better than their male counterparts. Perfumed hand lotion?

I would change the hooks. After they get rusty for a long time, they
get pitted and weak. For a few bucks you can change the hooks to new
and better hooks.


Thanks Bill. I was planning on doing that as several barbs fell off or
entire hooks fell off where joined to the lure.

So........how do you replace the treble hooks when both the lure body and
the treble hook rings are not split?


I cut off the trebles and any non-split rings on my lures, and put a
single hook on the rear loop only. The lures still seem to pull properly,
even with a lighter hook.

A single hook is easier on the fish and easier on the fisherman.


Gotcha!

http://tinyurl.com/s3vab

Looks like a winter project as this fall will be spent drift fishing for
walleye using Erie Dearies with night crawlers ( http://tinyurl.com/pummg
......chartreuse is my most productive) and when anchored and fishing for
yellow perch using weighted spreaders with #6 long shank barbed hooks tipped
with lake shiners.

The lures that were affected by the rust are used when fishing for bass or
when trolling (not drifting) for walleye, something I don't plan to do this
year.