A few weeks ago I wanted to organize all of my lose plastics into a tackle box. One section I mixed robo worms, zman lures and yum worms. When I went fishing yesterday I discovered that all of the worms in that compartment had either dried up or melted together forming a sticky mess of plastic. I think the robo worms are the culprit because I had zman and yum together for a few weeks prior to this without any issues. 

 

Has anyone had a similar negative reaction from putting all of their plastics together in one container? 

Z-man are Elaztech, it says on the pack to not store them with regular plastic lures. If you do.....well, now you know. 

9 minutes ago, CenCal fisher said:

A few weeks ago I wanted to organize all of my lose plastics into a tackle box. One section I mixed robo worms, zman lures and yum worms. When I went fishing yesterday I discovered that all of the worms in that compartment had either dried up or melted together forming a sticky mess of plastic. I think the robo worms are the culprit because I had zman and yum together for a few weeks prior to this without any issues. 

 

Has anyone had a similar negative reaction from putting all of their plastics together in one container? 

Ya, this can happen to ANY plastic. I never mixed soft plastics together, but when I was starting out, I put a torn up finesse worm into my bag of round plastic bobbers. the whole thing was a mess and I had to throw out 3 of the bobbers because I couldnt get them unstuck. I never mixed soft plastic with anything after that.

Your problem is the zman baits. Some strike king plastics with do it too. They don't play nice with others. You need to keep them by themselves. Most other plastics (of like colors) should be okay mixed. I generally try not to mix across brands and colors though. Hope this helps

1 hour ago, CenCal fisher said:

A few weeks ago I wanted to organize all of my lose plastics into a tackle box. One section I mixed robo worms, zman lures and yum worms. When I went fishing yesterday I discovered that all of the worms in that compartment had either dried up or melted together forming a sticky mess of plastic. I think the robo worms are the culprit because I had zman and yum together for a few weeks prior to this without any issues. 

 

Has anyone had a similar negative reaction from putting all of their plastics together in one container? 

I've had Z-Mam lizards get stuck together into a mess when mixed with Zoom worms.  Not pretty

Thanks, know I know not to mix plastics. 

I learned this mixing Z-Man and Yamamoto.

Sadly I learned this again when I had the tail from a topwater rat(looks like a Zoom Trick Worm) touching the tail of a Megabass I-Slide - the Trick Worm was bleeding/melting away the tail of the I-Slide.