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How to Fix Plastic Baits: Repair Baits FAST!
Nov 22, 2023
Have you ever had one of your plastic baits rip or tear while on the water? It's easier than you think to fix your plastic baits, even when you're still on the water. Pete Bowman explains the two easy ways you can fix your plastic baits, save money, and get back to fishing in no time! If you're wondering how to repair your favourite fishing lures, this is the video for you! ► Contents of this Video ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 0:00 - Intro 0:21 - The Problem with Plastic Baits 1:05 - The Two Ways to Fix Your Baits 2:05 - Mend-It 4:42 - Repurpose Plastic Baits You Can't Fix ► Subscribe http://bit.ly/youtube-fishncanada Don't forget to leave a COMMENT and give us a LIKE if you enjoyed what you saw. SUBSCRIBE for new videos and episodes released weekly! CONNECT WITH US -------------------------------- ► WEBSITE http://fishncanada.com ► FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/FishnCanada/ ► INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/fishncanada...
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With the invention of the plastic fishing baits came a lot of fish being put in the boat
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Let me tell you. Fresh water, you got large, smallmouth bass, you got walleye, muskies with the big plastics
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pike, all species. You've salt water, you got stripers, tons of saltwater fish you can catch with plastic bates
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They work really good. The problem with plastic is it's very soft. It's compared to a hard bait
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This is very hard that lasts forever. These plastic baits start to rip apart
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apart. Here's a beaver-style bait. It's got a rip in it from the hook where it comes out
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It's got a rip in the end here like that. Soft stick baits are notorious, especially
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as Sanko because they're so soft. What'll happen with these guys, this is a brand new one
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but what happens is when you put your hook in the front, bring it out, a little slit
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something like that happens. And worse yet, where the hook goes in, after you set the hook
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on a fish, something like that happens. I bet you've got a bunch of soft stick baits with that problem
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Well, I'm going to give you two ways to try and fix that. One, it's a glue, but it's not really a glue
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It's called mend it. What it actually does, it's just an agent that fuses the plastic together. Okay
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The other is a good old torch lighter. Now this torch is an intense little flame
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Very, butane is very, very hot, but you can melt it with that too
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Problem with this, a lot of times it's windy like today, etc., etc
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So this is a very good one to do. to do it in your house in the garage. If you want an alternative to buy in a $40 lighter
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which you don't really need, go to the dollar store, pick you up a little torch lighter like that
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Hear it? You can hear that Out in the boat I wouldn use it on a windy day like this out in the boat but I always keep on with you because it save your day Split I got no crazy glue so I going to try and weld it together
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Gonna hold for one more fish for sure. Beautiful. I'll go with this mend it. Okay, this stuff comes in two bottles. This is a big bottle. There's a
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smaller bottle on that. It's expensive, but it lasts forever. Okay, unscrew lid. It's got a little
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brush on it. Let me tell you something like that. When you're out and you've only got, let's say
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this red's working really good on small mouth. Oops, did I say that? Sorry, sorry, sorry, Ange
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This red's working really good on small mouth, and you're running low. You're out, you have no more
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left. You just take this mend it and you just run it in that slit like that, both sides, make sure
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both sides are covered. You can hold it together with your fingers. The beauty of this stuff
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compared to crazy glue or super glue I guess you'd call it is that this is not a
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glue super glue right now if I did that my fingers would be stuck to this bait
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for a long time I'd have I'd have plastic lower my hands with this stuff it's not a
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glue it mends it actually fuses this plastic together and what it does it's kind of
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heating or some kind of chemical reaction you know I'll hold it for about 15 20
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seconds then just sort of let it sit in the cool air don't drop in the water if
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you can help it for a little bit at least for a minute or two because these bates are porous as well and they'll suck in water so you don't want water in there
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So after that, it's sitting pretty good. As it's drying, I'll hit this side here too
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A lot of times these are halfway through or even more. And all you got to do, and you can do these at home too
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That's why you shouldn't be throwing your baits overboard anyways. Number one you throw these baits overboard when they wrecked like that The fish will try and eat them Eventually it will stay in their guts forever And number two you can take them home and try and fix them so if I might cut there my little slit right there like that keep it open like that
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this this heat will work too if you use the heat gun on that it'll work too but look
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see where my fingers are you got to be real careful because you're going to hit that with the heat you're going to burn your fingers it's such an intense heat so it's much
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better if you can use this glue mending whatever you want to call it fusion method
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Turn it over so that it's got some pressure on it. Just hold it like that, another 10 seconds, whatever
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And do the same thing with the flame. After you hit it, you'll notice that you want it to fuse together in the position you want
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If there's a glob, sometimes with the flame, there's a glob of plastic, don't worry about it. It's not going to stop the fish, but if you want to cut it off, you can trim it off afterwards
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It might be a little rim because it's really melted because that flame is intense. Like that
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And eventually that bait, it's probably already good. now it's already good
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I mean, I let us sit a little longer, but it's already fused together at the top end
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and in the middle. So I'll tell you what, when you're out on the water
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and you run low, you're running low or you have no more, and you know there's fish
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biting, that can save your day. One more tip is. Once your baits are euchreed
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okay, that bait is euchre now. They're supposed to hang, double hang like that
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They're supposed to have all kinds of appendages that hang. Obviously, this needs an opposite appendage. That one's gone
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On this one, the little side ones are gone. This is two different brands
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But again, you're going to throw these in the garbage. Normally you would throw it in the garbage
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Here's a little trick for you too. Take your scissors or a really sharp knife, but I'd highly recommend scissors
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Usually there's a ridge going down these bates. Take and cut straight down Straight down So you want it kind of as neat as possible You saying what are you doing here Bowman
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But trust me on this one. If you're running low on drop shot baits
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there is a perfect little drop shot bait. You nose hook it there
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Get the tail section on it. And trust me, this little sucker will work just as good as any other drop shot bait
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And you're not wasting it. I'll show you on the other one here. I got another broken beaver
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It's got no more side appendages. So there's the normal one, side appendages, and these guys
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This guy's lost all that. So why not make a drop shop bait out of it, right
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Use the ridge as a guide. Take your scissors. Good to have a pair of scissors on the boat no matter what
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You're going to try and go to best you can dead center. You say, there. Work my way down. There
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There, there. Try to be careful. Go right between the eyeballs here
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There, and there. Look at it. Two drop shot baits now
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Trust me on this, folks. These things, you set that on a drop shot rig
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and throw that at a smallmouth bass and as dumb as they look, they will work
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A couple little takes. for you save some money save some baits save some baits