A thing I've strangely never heard comment on in articles etc, so I'm asking you guys. When I get home from a spiining trip I sometimes take the trouble to try and dry the lures with a tissue, other times I forget. I suppose the main thought is to stop the hooks getting rusty, but they seem OK even when I forget, so maybe there's no need?

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Pop them in the airing cupboard or if it's a cold day under the heater blower in your car on the way home.

Colin

Spray them with WD40.
It makes a good attractant too.


I'm off to take cover.

WD40! Yes Dave, take cover!!

I do as Collin does, or, during the summer, just leave my tackle box open in the greenhouse where it gets nice and hot.

WD40, baaaa, philistine !

To be honest John, I dont bother. Modern lures and hooks are made from rotproof materials and mine usually go back in the box after a shake to get excess water off. The only problem I've had in recent times was when a whole bunch of similar kahle pattern hooks rusted after sharing a box with a wet lure. The hooks were part of a banjo minnow kit and were clearly badly finished and the rust probably served as an early warning that the hooks were inferior. Binning them was therefore no hardship.
Keep on drying them if it makes you feel happpier but it probably serves no useful purpose.

All my big lures hang up in a bucket with holes at the bottom for drainage anyway so I just put them away once I'm done. The only thing I do is sperate all the soft plastics after a session to stop them melting or attacking other lures.