I had a bag of Lake Fork Worm’s I wasn’t using.   I cut the curly tails off, so I was left with the only the ribbed body.

 

That made for a fine drop-shot bait.  Also good for Ned Rig

Repurposing old baits works great but is not approved by the bait monkey. ?

I keep like color used plastics in gallon buckets. When I get a full bucket I wash them up, remelt them and shoot them into new baits. Brian.

I have a plastic storage container in my boat of ripped/torn baits for my future re-melt bait making.

Left over curly tail worms make great addition to a spinner or buzz bait. I use parts of them for trailers, jigs, Ned’s or whatever until melt down time. Keep a coffee jar in the boat for the pieces, I go thru every so often pick out the unusable pieces. 

Some Zoom baits will bleed into each other. I've made some color hybrids.

6 hours ago, the reel ess said:

Some Zoom baits will bleed into each other. I've made some color hybrids.

Me too… one time I ended up with green pumpkin trick worm with a metholade translucent swirl …..and nope couldn’t buy a bite with them.

I have some green pumpkin Yum Dingers with the chartreuse tail that I inherited.  I've been removing  the chartreuse tail and fishing them as a straight green pumpkin color.

One of my favorites is the XZone 6" Finesse Worm.  Start 'em on Texas rig and after they've had to be bit off a couple times they work well on a shaky head or a heavy ned head.  If the tails survive that, the back 3" is a great dropshot bait.

 

Yes, I'm frugal.  lol