who refrigerates their sp's

[retiredandfishing]

I keep mine in the bar fridge and have a cooler pack for when i take them in the boat. Is this practice good or bad do you think. I'm wondering if the temp of the bait puts fish off.

[vertico]

i find berkley dropshots when out in the hot sun start to tear alot easier
we used to put the tray of dropshots in the esky so they would remain a bit cooler

[mjc85]

Terminator snapbacks just melt into blobs if they get to hot, fridge might be a good idea for long term storage, i doubt it would affect your catch rate because it would only take a couple of mins for the plastic to adjust to the water temp.

[robersl]

had the berlky soft plastics dvd they recomend that you keep them chilled when fishing to stop the sun melting them so i would think if the packet is open keep them chilled at all times

shane

[szopen]

They do have a very low melting point.

A lot of people in the US use old bodies (or cheap ones) and after melting pour their own.

After going into water for maybe 2 minutes max the plastic will be the same temperature as water (unless it was frozen solid this may take a bit longer or attract fish looking for an ice cream).

[Canoedle]

:o I got plastics that have been floating around in my tackle box for over a year on may trips out in the sun and they're all fine, think they can stay there till I need em. Besides, no room in the fridge, need that for beer.

[retiredandfishing]

thanks for the reply's guys. :)

[fish2eat]

Yes i've never refigerated them and I fish in Qld.

I did accidentally let a new packet of gulp minnows dry out...just put a couple of spponfuls of water in the packet and sealed em up for a week and they were like new again. (learned that from leaving contact lenses dry out when going to bed drunk)

[gogecko]

If your plastics have rips in them from fish attacks, you can repair them. Just use a jet lighter like a blowtorch, and they swim good as new.

Dont throw away ripped SPs, repair them. Buy a jet lighter for $4 from any smoko shop.

cheers
Andrew

[retiredandfishing]

cool i was just dreaming about a make your own sp centre. like to be able to choose what mould and size you like etc and make it up like jelly. SWeeeeet. :D

you could choose your glitter fleck colour yourself as well as mount whatever type jighead you want. The options are endless.

gulp, saltwater, flickbaits. All in the colours you choose.