After your done with a jig....reuse or trash?

I was curious what you guys do when your done with a jig and go to switch.......let's say you fished with the jig a bit but no luck and want to swap colors and it's still in good shape. Do you put it back to reuse again or do you trash it? I find sometimes even though the bait is in good shape on the outside once you rig it once the wire keeper/collar of the jig kind of messes up the inside integrity and makes the next time you use the bait "not snug" when rigged. Wanted to hear your all's opinions.

I will put it back in the container if it still looks good. If I cut a jig head off to retie knot I will usually replace it. Since I fish around a lot wood. I end up pulling the jig free and bending the hook back to shape.

I always save my jigs for losing on brush another time...... :Rofl

I do let any hand tie jigs dry before putting back in a box.

dump em. they won't stay in place

soft plastics that is

On the soft plastics I usually cut the head off which leaves a smaller bait but new area to hook plastic to.

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Let dry reuse

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Originally Posted by Foxy Jig

dump em. they won't stay in place

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Locktite Super Glue Gel overcomes that for us, sits in the tray right next to Slabsauce and crappie nibbles.

Re use, I have been known to melt the lead of a broken hook and make another one...

I pitch them, I figure fishing time is valuable enough to use a few stingers per trip, not anything like the lifelike crankbaits that cost 25$ or more each. I don't move the boat to mess with a snag either, break it off, and tie a new one. I have fished in the big round rocks where if a fish doesn't get it first, it probably will only last one or two casts.

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I use superglue on my handties so they never fall apart. I lay them on the deck and put them back in the box once the dry out. Torn up soft plastic goes in a solo cup to be remelted into another bait later on.

I reuse if they’ll stay in place. If they’re torn, they go in the trash. I don’t ever throw the old ones in the lake....heard somewhere if a fish, turtle, or bird eat it, they can’t pass it and they die. I usually drop em in an empty bottle or can.

A funny thing happened one time when my friend P.R. took my dad fishing. P.R. will use 10 different colors during an outing and when he’s done with it, he pitches it in the bottom of the boat. They found a honey hole one time and Dad went to tearing ole P.R. up! He asked Dad what color he was using and Dad said “I don’t know.....something I picked up out of the bottom of your boat!” Just whipped the man’s butt in his own boat with his own lure.....yep, that’s my Pop! :)

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Originally Posted by GoTennTitans

I reuse if they’ll stay in place. If they’re torn, they go in the trash. I don’t ever throw the old ones in the lake....heard somewhere if a fish, turtle, or bird eat it, they can’t pass it and they die. I usually drop em in an empty bottle or can.

A funny thing happened one time when my friend P.R. took my dad fishing. P.R. will use 10 different colors during an outing and when he’s done with it, he pitches it in the bottom of the boat. They found a honey hole one time and Dad went to tearing ole P.R. up! He asked Dad what color he was using and Dad said “I don’t know.....something I picked up out of the bottom of your boat!” Just whipped the man’s butt in his own boat with his own lure.....yep, that’s my Pop! :)

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Same here, messy boat means a clean lake.

If I'm switching colors with jig heads that have a wire barb or screw lock to hold the plastic, I will just cut the line, toss them in the box and re-rig with a new head.

On jigs with a conventional lead barb, I'll pull the plastic off and put it back in the bag, they don't seem to tear up the plastics as badly.

Torn plastics head for the trash, hand ties get reused. Lead gets reused too, melted if not usable anymore.

most of the time my baits are reused on plastics and handties IF they make it back up on dry land after they go swimming.
some hand ties and some plastics have had some miles on them before they quit , just saw a hand tie last night that has been in the water every year for around 8 years , faded out badly and limping around but still game if it was the bait that crossed my mind to drop .

Thats why I switched to the coil collar for plastics, the spring stayes in shape and plastic stays, even tube body's last a long time. Jigs I use till the hook is damaged.

trash mainly if I think they will not hold on a barbed jig .