What does everybody do with their ripped up plastics.  I usually just through my plastics away and was wondering if thats what everyone else does, or if you have some nifty use for them?

I keep all my ripped up stuff. Thicker worms can be used as a jig filler when i use a chunk. I also cut them into small, 1cm long pieces and stuff them into my tubes when I rig them with a screwlock hook. Normally the tube is too thin for the screw to grab so I add more plastic behind it. I also cut some of my smaller craws down to re-purpose them. Sometimes I would cut up random plastics and stuff them into my hollow body frogs to give it a bit more mass, to cast further and sit a bit lower. I do many other small, random things with my cut up plastics, too many to list, but those are the main uses.

I don't do anything with mine. Just properly discard them. But I heard many moons ago one of the manufacturers came up with that color roadkill camo by remolding (recycling) a variety of soft plastics.

I use to melt them and pour my own original worms .

 

 

1 hour ago, scaleface said:

I use to melt them and pour my own original worms .

 

 

How well does melting them typically work? Is it good or does the plastic change color?

 

4 minutes ago, RMax said:

How well does melting them typically work? Is it good or does the plastic change color?

I melted them slow and it was pretty easy . They will change color . I just mixed all the colors together and they come out brown .

 

2 minutes ago, scaleface said:

 

I melted them slow and it was pretty easy . They will change color . I just mixed all the colors together and they come out brown .

 

Dang. I figured they would change color but I hoped I could make some mixed black/blue with green pumpkin bottom.

32 minutes ago, RMax said:

Dang. I figured they would change color but I hoped I could make some mixed black/blue with green pumpkin bottom.

You would be able to if you use a one part mold . The colors will change but you could get some interesting patterns anyway .Ive been thinking using an ink pen for a model .

4 hours ago, RMax said:

What does everybody do with their ripped up plastics.  I usually just through my plastics away and was wondering if thats what everyone else does, or if you have some nifty use for them?

 

Through where or what ?

I save mine and give them to guys that melt them down to reuse. 

Mine live to fight another day with Mend-it. stuff is amazing

Glue it back if possible or I add them to my box of scrap. One day I'll melt them down and pour some craws or senkos lol 

I just throw away I actually just recently threw away a big bag full of used and never used old soft plastic I planned on doing something with them but I got tired of holding on to them just threw them all in the trash.

Trash them.

Don't discard the soft plastic in the water, put I them in the trash.

Tom

 

What I can't fix with Mend-It, I throw into the recycling bin.

18 hours ago, Raul said:

 

Through where or what ?

*Throw them away in the garbage.

Trash them, because the bait monkey always has me buying more than I can use. 

 

Happily, I've developed an appetite for leftover plastics, but remove the hooks first! 

                                                     

 

I usually hide them in random places to scare the crap out of my wife  I keep my senkos to use on a wacky rig. 

I have injection molds and make my own baits. so I try and recycle my used baits. Ones I don't recycle keep and the Illinois Bass Nation has a recycle contest for the bass clubs. so I usually have a couple freezer bags full of plastics to donate for the contest for my club.

1 hour ago, RyneB said:

I have injection molds and make my own baits. so I try and recycle my used baits. Ones I don't recycle keep and the Illinois Bass Nation has a recycle contest for the bass clubs. so I usually have a couple freezer bags full of plastics to donate for the contest for my club.

What baits do you make the most? I want to do this but don't know what mold I should pick, although I'm thinking a craw. Or did you make your own mold?

702 craw mold from BTS. I also shoot also shoot a lot of finesse worms and brush hogs. but the 702 craw is what I make and use the most.

I keep most of mine in an old coffee can to use when trying to match up plastics to terminal tackle.  I would rather rig and re-rig a lure with a bite out of it then ruin a good one.  

I save my old plastics too.  I trim them down once they rip, and then store them in a plastic zip lock bag and keep in my truck for bank fishing when I come across a pond of something that interests the angler in me.