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11-07-2010, 05:21 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Lexington, MA
Posts: 1,940
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BigFish- over the life of the plug you just retired.... did you change out the VMC hooks or just sharpen them as needed.... looks like one of your warriors.... a lot of quality use!
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 Blond Terror
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11-07-2010, 05:55 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Changed the hooks once or twice.....once you hook fish it seems the salinity from the fish mouth begin immediately to corrode the hooks? Just my theory! They rust all on their own without catching but once you begin catching......they break down quicker.
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Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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11-07-2010, 08:55 PM
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OLDGOAT7205963
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: CAPE
Posts: 693
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Bigfish Your plug looks like mostly boofish and hook marks. I,ll bit it will be good for another twenty years.
I still use a couple of green needles from the eighties that have been sanded by bass . The hole back end and they still catch fine
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11-07-2010, 09:15 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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99.9% Bass on that plug! I do not recall any blues on that one?
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Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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11-08-2010, 11:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 2,038
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Fish breath
Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
Changed the hooks once or twice.....once you hook fish it seems the salinity from the fish mouth begin immediately to corrode the hooks? Just my theory! They rust all on their own without catching but once you begin catching......they break down quicker.
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More likely the fish scratch the plating on the hook and expose the less rust resistant metal beneath.
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11-09-2010, 12:56 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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That may be the case but my point is once a VMC starts catching it corrodes alot faster than ones that have simply been in the water be it scratched or the fact that the slime/bodily fluids in a fish' mouth speed up the corrosion process.
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Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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11-09-2010, 06:54 AM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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like vmc's ... would be an improvement if they curved the point in like the eagle claw's to reduce hook rash ..
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Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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11-09-2010, 07:06 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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I thought about that Ed but I don't think it would help? It is what it is.....sharp hooks and wood?  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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11-10-2010, 06:59 PM
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Big E
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Seabrook, NH
Posts: 681
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tagger
like vmc's ... would be an improvement if they curved the point in like the eagle claw's to reduce hook rash ..
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