Ive been building plugs all winter an Ive been using MUSTAD 3561ED HOOKS. Ive fished some of the plugs for the past 3 weeks. an today after looking them over I saw RUST on the hooks. Is there a way of cleaning them. 2. Should I use them for the rest of the season.3.
CHANGE them to VMC's, NOW 4. wait till the season is over. 5.just say the H%^& with it. for NOW. :mad: comments WELCOMED:uhoh:
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rust is the least of your problems ,,wait until you start dropping fish .. not all .,, just the good ones .. Mustad = fish droppers

Salt-X

SLIPKNOT, I heard about that, Im going to e-mail the company an tell them,:crying: see what they say.

TAGGER, why do you say there DROPPERS:splat:
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switch them up or sharpen them. Once you sharpen them hit them with a bit of hard as hull :wave:

Just about any hook will rust though.

I think once rust begins setting in the hooks are on their way out and I wouldn't trust them implicitly. There have been times I've used hooks which had rusted a little, and I couldn't shake the feeling that if I hooked something good, they'd be weakened and break, so in a way it ruined my peace of mind:)

I always dry my lures off with a rag, and spray them with WD-40 to protect against rusting which seems to work quite well.

DaveSimpson, THAT might have been my problem. I fished them put them in my bag an LEFT them in the truck till the next trip out. I know they sat there heating up in the truck. Ill give some outher a try an WIP 'EM DOWN after fishin an see if that help:eek:
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To me the biggest problem with rust is what the rust does during a subcutaneous invasion of one of your fingers. That should be more of a concern. Its bad enough when the hook you just dislodged from a fish pierces your skin with the fishes bacteria, but when the hook is rusty the problem is magnefied.