Fishing made easy

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http://www.blogsmonroe.com/fishing/?p=265

One of the things I have learned over the years is to take care of your equipment.  The clowns you see on TV in the bass tournaments slamming their gear all over the place can afford to do that, most of them get their rods and reels for FREE at that level.  So things like I mentioned yesterday about changing out lines, checking rods and greasing reels are all part of the process.  There is such a thing as lure maintenance, also.

Before jumping into the open water stuff, because I am still holding on to winter fishing, this is about taking care of your ice jigs.  In this case, walleye baits.

When I got geared up for the trip to Saginaw Bay I downsized a bit, and took lures from five Plano 3700 sized trays, and put a selection into a double sided tray with a handle. It looked like the right way to go for some jumping from spot to spot on the bay and keeping things light.

As it was, it wasn’t quite snow proof.  This was fine while up there and kept in the cold where nothing melted, but it was a situation that was going to have to be addressed upon coming back to Ida.  At first, I just wiped down the moisture I saw in the case, and propped up the lids for the water to evaporate.  It worked to a degree, but not enough.

The solution was to take the time, to wipe down each lure, and then hang them in these 3730 three inch Plano trays to complete the drying process.  Yes, it did take some time to complete the process, about a hour and half in fact, but think of the consequences.  I could have easily have had three or four hundred dollars of jigs, spoons and swimbaits with rusty hooks or worse on the baits themselves.  Choice for me was simple, do the work, preserve the baits,  and fish another day with the tried and true baits I  have come to depend on.

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