salt to roll baits in

[Jigsbydirk]

So any recomendations for what salt to roll your baits into. Most of the threads everyone seemed to use popcorn salt in their baits but I never saw what anyone rolled their baits in.

[Richard Prager]

I rolled my baits in salt(any kind)once and packaged them. The only problem with that, is you can't see color of the bait. It's all about appearance! I don't see the purpose in rolling your baits in salt after they are made. Just my opinion.

[BassnG3]

I roll them just prior to bagging.

Scott

[wannabefishing]

i roll them in a bit of salt just prior to packaging aswell, use regular .50 store bought salt.... nothing special

[Don]

I'll put the amt. of baits that I want to bag (8-10) in a sealed margarine container with just a pinch of table salt and shake vigorously to get a mild salt coating on them. I use top zip 4X7 bags so this makes it easier to bag the baits without them sticking to the inside walls of the poly bag.

[BAssKickin]

With one sided molds, you can shake a bit of salt on the hot plastic while it cools to give the bait a "taste". The salt will then come off slightly to make bagging easier.

[nova]

I never roll my baits in salt. Why would you go to all the trouble of "mastering" a color recipie; pouring a nice looking bait, and then covering it up with salt?

To me rolling in salt is just a selling trick because as soon as the bait hits the water, the salt is gone.

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[One Sock]

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To me rolling in salt is just a selling trick because as soon as the bait hits the water' date=' the salt is gone.

Well I can tell you from experience, a lot of people who hand pour and "sell" baits do it because when the buyer takes them from the bag, they feel..so so soft, but like you said once it hits the water. I know this because prior to making my own baits, i bought a bunch of hand pours from the likes of e-bay and received just that, tough baits that felt soft till they hit the water

now on the other hand, if your sight fishing or bed fishing, salt on the outside of your baits is a nifty trick for fish. I have personally seen bedding bass avoid baits at all costs and then recklessly attack a bait covered in salt time and time again, why? maybe it has something to do with the salt dispersing into the water. smell? taste? who knows, either way, when I am shallow water fishing or the bite is tough and fish are locked into a small strike zone, i always have a bag of baits covered in salt

[alsworms]

This has been an ongoing battle for a long time now. Do bass hold on to the bait longer because of the salt, or because the bait is super soft? Or are we just imagining the whole darn thing?? I think what it boils down to is confidence. Personally, I like scent in the bait and salt on the bait. If nothing else, salt will keep the baits from sticking together in the bag. I know worm oil does this, but then you run the risk of it leaking.

For me, it's oil for selling and salt for personal use.

[nova]

I agree Chris. I think that fishing is a series of personal choices and confidence.

My partner loves to fish yellow and he does well with it. I couldn't catch a cold with yellow. He believes in it and I don't.

I also think that most fishermen give he fish too much credit. Fish are an instinctive creature; they don't think as we do.

As far as the salt/taste thing goes; I don't know if we have some scientist types as members, but it would be nice to hear from arena on this issue.

Again; maybe I'm just a skeptic, but when I see baits covered in salt I wonder what the salt is covering, but if that is what certain folks feel confident with, then who am I to argue.

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[wannabefishing]

in my experience, i've found people to piss and moan more about getting their hands covered in worm oil/scent and it leaking in the boat, then having the salt cover up a colour a bit... so that's why i've chosen to use salt instead, seems to please the masses.... it's only for packaging and nothing else, for me anyways

[kelly]

From what I understand the salt taste like blood. have you ever cut your mouth or put a cut finger in your mouth. it taste a lot like salt.

[nova]

Don't take this the wrong way please; but that's human blood; what does lizard blood or pearch blood or frog blood taste like. I'm not trying to be smart here; I'm just looking at all the angles.

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[kelly]

I do not know for shore but did you volunteer for the test. please taste each one and get back to me. Blood is very much the same in all planet life and made up with the same compounds so to say. most life bleeds red also. I have not tasted lizard or frog blood but Ive been squirt in the face while braking a carps neck and it tasted the same.

[nova]

lol

[alsworms]

Kinda like what we say in the pest control industry......

How do you tell the difference between mice and rat droppings???

The taste.

I have heard the blood/salt thing before. Don't know if I'm completely convinced yet. Perhaps if salt is in the bait, but not if you use salt to cure the baits. As Nova said, the salt is gone in one cast.

[nova]

That reminds me Chris of a hunting joke we used to tell.

Two guys hunting rabbits; for one it his first time hunting. Walking down the trail the novice notices little round things all over the ground. He says to the older hunter, " what are these?" The hunter says, " those are smart pills, take one". The novice picks one up, pops it in his mouth and promptly spits it out saying, " man, that tastes like sh**." The hunter then says," see, you're getting smarter already".

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[alsworms]

That reminds me Chris of a hunting joke we used to tell.

Two guys hunting rabbits; for one it his first time hunting. Walking down the trail the novice notices little round things all over the ground. He says to the older hunter, " what are these?" The hunter says, " those are smart pills, take one". The novice picks one up, pops it in his mouth and promptly spits it out saying, " man, that tastes like sh**." The hunter then says," see, you're getting smarter already".

I like that one!

[charkins]

My two cents worth:

I have been fishing with plastic baits since the late 60's. Most places packed them in a small amount of worm oil to keep them from sticking together and to keep them from hardening. I always kept some worm oil on my worms in their double sided tackle box. Yes it leaked a little, but the worms were always fresh and supple. I still pack the soft plastic baits that I make in worm oil.

Salt washes off, the oil washes off, so what is the best to keep your worms in?? My money is on the oil.