May sound silly but I’ve been saving my plastics and glueing them back up after trips to save money. Plastics being at $6-9 dollars a pack depending what you use is getting wild. So I’ve been doing some repair and it’s working really well. 

Absolutely! Mend-it has been a great addition to the tackle box and I’ll continue to use it. 

I'm bad about actually doing it, but I do have mendit and save my plastics for eventual repair.

I have used Mend-It for several years. I keep a bottle in my shop and my boat. 

I've wondered about it myself, but I haven't tried it yet.

 

Flukes get tore up at the nose, and where you skin hook them. How does mendit work for an application like that?

4 minutes ago, Bazoo said:

I've wondered about it myself, but I haven't tried it yet.

 

Flukes get tore up at the nose, and where you skin hook them. How does mendit work for an application like that?

Stuff works great. I glue all my plastics back together with it atleast once 

I glue the nose of zoom flukes and kvd caffeine shads no issue at all

Mend-it works very well, it's hard to tell where the repair is. If you throw the bigger more expensive plastics like a Magdraft's, Hud's or the Burrito. It's great for repairing tears.

FM

I’m sorry to say I haven’t tried mend it, but I do save my plastic baits, and reuse them as trailers. I’ve made some Frankenstein looking set ups for spinners and jigs. After that it’s the melting pot they go. 
   

Mend it has allowed me to have some verrrrry old Keitech SIFs, like 7+ years old.  Poor guys are at the "please let me die" stage but still catching. 

hudds and the like are too expensive to not repair and mend-it has been my go to for a long time. I am a fan of using a toothpick or a cuticle pusher (wooden stick thingy) to apply it, as i found the brush would occasionally grab particles and that can cause the entire jar to "activate". since moving to the toothpick i have not lost a bottle to contamination.

That's a very good idea!

Didn’t think of that honestly. That’s great idea. 

When done, I use a fine tip soldering iron to lightly smooth out the areas I've fixed with the mend it. That is to say, you can still see the surface "crack" after you've used mend it. I take the soldering iron and smooth the plastic so the cracks are no longer visible.

 

Seems to add some durability to the repair...particularly at the nose of the bait where the crank of the hook breaks out.

I usually take a lighter to broken or ripped plastics and just meld them back together, sometimes to the point I'll take two different color plastics and make one lure of mismatched colors. Then I don't know which color the bass are preferring LOL!!!

 

No but I probably should.

I carry a bottle but I forget to use it a lot of the time. 

I recently bought a bottle for $15. I repaired approximately 12 packs of plastics and still have some left over. The math works, now I will find out if the bass like my repairs.

Very interesting discussion, thanks all for sharing.

This post is great timing for me.  Yesterday I received my first two bottles of Mend-It.  Two friends of mine claim that Super Glue works just as well;  do any of you have experience with that?

1 hour ago, king fisher said:

I recently bought a bottle for $15. I repaired approximately 12 packs of plastics and still have some left over. The math works, now I will find out if the bass like my repairs.

That’s what I’m talking about! They’ve never minded my repairs. And it saves a ton of cash 

This is one of those products that's truly justified being called a GAME CHANGER.

Yes it helps a lot.  For my weightless rigged plastics I'll also use a twist lock hook and bend open the clip portion of the lock.  This will allow the hook to unclip from the lock when a fish is hooked and the bait will slide up the hook and line with the lock still in its nose.  This prevents the lock from getting torn out of the nose and let's the bait slide up the line away from the fish as it thrashes.   I had this happen by accident on the Gilly and Gamakatsu twist lock hook.  That Gilly has caught dozens of fish and looks fuzzy like it has fur from all the bass jaw marks.  I open up all my twist look hook keepers like that now and my plastics are practically immortal including very soft JDM baits.  Even Senkos last until the hook bend in the body of the bait ends up being what destroys it.  It looks weird but I highly recommend it for weightless plastics.  

I use it on my Zakos because I go through them so much. It's been great. 

8 hours ago, Bigbox99 said:

Yes it helps a lot.  For my weightless rigged plastics I'll also use a twist lock hook and bend open the clip portion of the lock.  This will allow the hook to unclip from the lock when a fish is hooked and the bait will slide up the hook and line with the lock still in its nose.  This prevents the lock from getting torn out of the nose and let's the bait slide up the line away from the fish as it thrashes.   I had this happen by accident on the Gilly and Gamakatsu twist lock hook.  That Gilly has caught dozens of fish and looks fuzzy like it has fur from all the bass jaw marks.  I open up all my twist look hook keepers like that now and my plastics are practically immortal including very soft JDM baits.  Even Senkos last until the hook bend in the body of the bait ends up being what destroys it.  It looks weird but I highly recommend it for weightless plastics.  

 

I'd like a more thorough post on this, please. It's not entirely clear what you're doing. But the ability to increase the life of soft JDM plastics? I'm all ears.

I heard mend-it is PVC glue.  It is popular to rebrand stuff and mark it up for fishermen.  Kinda like Reel Magic= silicone spray and KVD line/lure is water based protectant (automotive quick detailer).