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Location: Minneapolis, MN | Seems my feather spinnerbaits are rusting out the main hook. The hackle holds water too long even hanging in the bait box. Some aren't even a year old and already heading towards the useless bait pile.  Just live with it? |
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| live and learn...I'd say if you leave them out they dry quicker than you believe, so leave them out before you put them away. |
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| my thought would be that the fish REALLY don't mind that much. They are either gonna eat it or not. Also, the colors and patterns are less for the fish and more for the angler who knows, maby muskies love rust let's face it, chickens are not a common natural prey although given the chance I am sure they would try. |
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Location: Hayward, WI | I don't have any marabou spinnerbaits but I do have a few marabou bucktails. I usually leave them hanging in my Lakewood, but I open the top up and leave it open until my next trip out. I have not had a problem with anything rusting yet. If nothing else, hang them somewhere out in the open when you get them home.
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Location: Cave Run Lake KY. | Marabou holds more water then Neck Hackel or Saddle hackel, you get your best action from Hackel over Marabou. I leave my Muskie Dusters hang in the boat till dry. You can just leave your feather tails hang in the boat till you go back home from a trip. Before you hang them up give them a good shake just like a dog shakes and hang them up. I'v been tying My Muskie Duster's since about the 1980's and the only complants, I get are from fishermen that have not dried out their baits before they lock them up in a air tight tackle box. I have found out that feathers will stand up to bucktails about the same over a long period of time. |
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