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Soft Plastic Bait Making => Soft Plastic and Plastic Baits - How To??? => Topic started by: invertedn04 on 08/13/13 21:51 UTC

Title: worm oil question
Post by: invertedn04 on 08/13/13 21:51 UTC

I put worm oil on baits one day and by the next day it's like I never put any on.what am I doing wrong here?

Title: Re: worm oil question
Post by: ctom on 08/13/13 23:02 UTC

Your plastics absorbed the oil. Just re-oil them.

Some plastics are "drier" than others and will take up the oil you put on them. Other have the opposite problem and give off too much oil. You'll learn as you go, but you haven't done a thing wrong. 

Title: Re: worm oil question
Post by: invertedn04 on 08/14/13 08:57 UTC

Thanks, I didn't know if I was bagging them to early or what.

Title: Re: worm oil question
Post by: ctom on 08/14/13 09:13 UTC

After shooting any bait will need to "cure" a bit, but the larger or thicker, the more cure time you want to give them. On something like a senco type of worm give them a day in the fridge laid out flat on a cookie sheet. Frogs and toads or other thick baits I'd leave them in the fridge a full 24 hours. Once cured they will not take on as much of the oil and can be bagged without them taking shape if they aren't perfectly packaged.