Boiling your soft plastics : lures & flies

jonr · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 1:51 pm Post subject: Boiling your soft plastics

I have heard that boiling your spquidey soft plastics (and others) for 3-5min helps improve their action... anyone else tried this..

I am going to give it a go next time I head out and will let you know

jon

JEDA1 · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 2:18 pm Post subject: Re: Boiling your soft plastics

Never heard of this what's wrong with the normal action ??

Blinky · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 4:04 pm Post subject: Re: Boiling your soft plastics

I boil all mine except Z-man, it softens them right up and I reckon it improves the action.

jonr · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:17 pm Post subject: Re: Boiling your soft plastics

I know the larger squidies are a lot stiffer then they use to be which mean you have to move them faster to get them going right, partulary the 130mm ones... which can be hard when fishing with the tide...

jon

cuddlescooper · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:26 pm Post subject: Re: Boiling your soft plastics

Boiling them makes them softer giving a better hook up when using them with weedless worm hooks.

G-LOOMIS · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:38 pm Post subject: Re: Boiling your soft plastics

I like to add a splash of chilli & soy sauce to my SP's and a pinch of salt n pepper, slowly simmer for a further 2 minutes then serve on bed of rice with a good handful of corriander. :chef2:

seano · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:37 pm Post subject: Re: Boiling your soft plastics

Trimming a bit of the tail wrist off with scissors also helps them swim better.

JEDA1 · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:00 pm Post subject: Re: Boiling your soft plastics

So after cooking them do they stay softer or do you re-cook every now and then ???

Dick · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:02 pm Post subject: Re: Boiling your soft plastics

boiling squdgies is a prerequisite to ensure they swim proper, a lot do come out of the packet with distorted tails, boiling and then hanging them up helps straighten them.

jonr · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:30 pm Post subject: Re: Boiling your soft plastics

how long do you nornmally boil them for dick?

Matt Flynn · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:01 pm Post subject: Re: Boiling your soft plastics

Sounds like there's a market for someone selling PREBOILED soft plastics :lol:

nikoniko · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:38 pm Post subject: Re: Boiling your soft plastics

boiling gulps could become aromatic but will try it on squdgies :mrgreen:

fraze · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:47 pm Post subject: Re: Boiling your soft plastics

how long do you boil them for?

Ben Jam · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:05 pm Post subject: Re: Boiling your soft plastics

Just another thing I will have to try.

Dick · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:22 pm Post subject: Re: Boiling your soft plastics

jonr wrote:

how long do you nornmally boil them for dick?

I buy decent sps

but I have it on good authority that a couple of minutes in boiling water is good enough then make sure they hang straight.

Incidentally I saw an interview with the Taylor twins when barra lived in eastern states impoundments :wink:

They mentioned spending about twenty minutes on modifying sps, thinning out tail wrists, removing excess weight to get them to sink slower, boiling, extra fluting along the body etc, etc. They are the guns so hard to knock what they say.

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