I know a lot of you like to fish YUM baits as do I.   I just can’t get over how slimy and oily they are.  It is often hard to hold onto to rig them.   I assume it is because they are made with a petroleum base.   Has anyone figured out a way to make them less slimy or an easy way to rig them?   I use many other baits, more than I use YUM, and haven’t noticed any as slimy as these.  

Could probably rinse them off with water. They don't stay slimy once I'm using them. Talking about YUM Dingers.

Before boxing oily baits I rinse them in the sink and let them air dry. Also do this with baits with lots of salt. 

you can move the baits out of the original bag into another bag and leave the bag open, the stuff will probably dry. 

Thanks guys.  I am going to try giving some a rinse and paper towel drying them.   I am going to just set some in another box and see if they dry a little.  These are the only baits I find this oily and I have a bunch of Yum baits.  Not sure I will buy more of these.  Like the design and price of some of their baits, but I have found Many others I like and over purchased lately with that Midway USA sale. 

1 hour ago, Fishin Dad said:

Thanks guys.  I am going to try giving some a rinse and paper towel drying them.   I am going to just set some in another box and see if they dry a little.  These are the only baits I find this oily and I have a bunch of Yum baits.  Not sure I will buy more of these.  Like the design and price of some of their baits, but I have found Many others I like and over purchased lately with that Midway USA sale. 

Zoom is another brand. Some bags will be dry as a bone and other are like that water filled kids toy that keeps slipping out of your had lol

 

2 hours ago, Fishin Dad said:

paper towel

You can bypass the wetting part, and just dry them with paper towels. It will soak up the goop.

2 hours ago, cgolf said:

Zoom is another brand. Some bags will be dry as a bone and other are like that water filled kids toy that keeps slipping out of your had lol

 

I haven't had many issues like that with Zoom, but I'll throw out that the BPS soft plastics are the slimiest baits I've ever handled. They're so covered in oil/mold lube/whatever that it's hard to hold on to them to rig the hook sometimes.

18 minutes ago, galyonj said:

I haven't had many issues like that with Zoom, but I'll throw out that the BPS soft plastics are the slimiest baits I've ever handled. They're so covered in oil/mold lube/whatever that it's hard to hold on to them to rig the hook sometimes.

It hasn't been all zoom, just some bags have been. This was a few years ago though, and was an issue with mostly some finesse worms.

This topic literally made me go check the three bags of finesse worms I have from YUM and all three look like they have a couple ounces of oil in the bags lol I don’t remember that when I bought them a few months ago. My 20+ bags of Zoom finesse/trick/curly tail worms and all bags of craws do not have any oil in them.

Was gonna say that Yum is notoriously bad for this. I use a ton of zoom stuff and I've never noticed it.

Thanks guys.  That is why I was checking.   I was trying to rig a craw and it was literally hard to hold well enough to get it straight.  I rig a lot of baits, so it shouldn’t be difficult.  I am going to pat them with paper towels and put them back in their packages and see what happens.  I still like some of their designs and costs for sure.  I don’t “need” to use them, I have totes of others plastics.  Just found it strange and wanted to make sure it wasn’t just something I did or I got a bad batch.  

I think it’s hit or miss possibly.

I noticed that Yum baits are slimier than that Zoom. Neither stay that way very long though.