I read where you could wash your crankbaits in the dishwasher when you wanted to clean them.

So I did it, today.

The crank is a Bandit 200 crawfish that I threw into a tree limb on my favorite pond back in March.

With the pond at its lower level, ever, I walked to the tree and pulled in the branch and retrieved the lure this afternoon.

The bait had caked on black dirt and scum all over it.

I rinsed the crank off in the sink and placed the crank in the utensil basket and washed it with other dishes, but without my wife's knowledge.  I don't think she would see the humor in it.

The crank was very dirty as it was in the high water and the tree since March and I was interested in just how clean it would be at the end of the cycle.

It came pretty clean. Clean enough to throw as it is.  Of course, I could always clean it some more with a toothbrush or a rag.

Just wanted you guys to know that this cleaning method works!

LOL!!!  My wife would probably laugh at me if I tried that.  Good Idea!   8-)

I think I will just dump my whole tackle box in this weekend and see what my wife says. ;D

I think I will just dump my whole tackle box in this weekend and see what my wife says. ;D

If you're not on BR by Sunday evening we will know what happened.   ;D

I wonder what would happen if you washed your Gulp and Cyberflexx soft plastics in the dishwasher.  

I promise you will be calling a plumber or buying stock in Draino.   ;D

First my ballcaps, and now my lures.  What a great invention the dishwasher has become..

ball caps?? hmm..does that work pretty good?

Sure does  I now have a thing my mom gave me last yr though, for putting them in regular washing machine.  It's a plastic framework thing that the cap goes in.  Keeps it from getting the bill bent up in the wash

Russ I have tried that thing, and the only thing is the dad blasted thing hurts my head. ;D

Don't tell her you're going to use her toothbrush either.  She won't find the humor in it.

My wife would kill me if I put lures in the dishwasher and she caught me.

Actually I discovered this method several years ago - my son has an eagle eye and was always spotting lures stuck in trees or tangled in brush piles.  We would collect them and he kept them in his tackle box.  That winter I pulled 'em out, discarded some that were beyond help and ran the CB's through the dishwasher - after putting new trebels on them I hauled out the BPS catalog and calculated that the cost of these CB's would be somewhere between $60 and $80 new.  Some of them returned to the brush piles w/o me getting all upset and others caught fish - well worth the effort.