so i'm gonna show you how to restore a fishing lure guys for anything like
me i kayak fish a lot and i pick up lures all the time so i end up putting them to the side
until i have a bunch of them and then i restore them in a few easy steps i'm going to show with
you how you can change the lures that look like this into lures that look like this now there's
all kinds of different ways that you can clean fishing lures you got dawn soap you got clr
you got toilet bowl cleaner 409 there's a variety of different ways but the method i'm
going to be showing you today uses a chemical called a lactic acid it's used as an acid rinse
in laundry it's actually also used in automobile radiators to remove scale which is kind of crazy
to think about but also does the bang up job of cleaning up your lures all right step number one
likely if you're restoring a lure the hook is probably gonna be kind of rusted out or bent
like these so i will snip these off i also might even snip off the split ring i mean if
you're gonna restore a lure you might as well go the extra mile so i'll go ahead and do that now
i'm going to bend the hook out a little bit and i'll get the cutter in i like it nice cut there
all right dude that's all of them huh now i got these guys the treble hooks are off
all right step two is just get all you possibly can off by rubbing with your fingers trying to get
all that dirt off and get a lot of it off look at that i found this lure at the same place i've been
feeling the same guy the same brand just different kind of colors some nice rattles in there oh yeah
look at all the dirt the water's turning kind of gross this is a chatter bait it's the original
chatterbait it's like a six dollar lure five six dollar lure five six dollar lure we'll see we can
get these things come back to life and next we're gonna do is take this bar keeper's friend the soft
cleanser this is new and if you don't have this in your house i'll put a link in description below
but basically put this stuff in here this is all the lactic acid i was talking about this stuff is
awesome so i'm going to rub this all over every corner of the lures that you have and then you're
going to let it sit for a couple minutes we'll come back to this in a moment so now you have this
you want to take a toothbrush and scrub every inch that you possibly can drop them in there
all right check these out dry them off see if i like what i see all right right now so far looking
a bit shiny which i like to see they weren't shiny a little bit ago a little bit of rust down here
this one looks pretty good this thing's starting to look pretty good but i want to give it another
another round a lot of times if the soft cleanser don't work what i'll do especially if any metal on
your lure and it's a bit rusted then you will need some of this bar keepers friend kind of powdered
cleanser now keep in mind all the materials can found in the description so what you want to do
get your lures wet put some powder on it and almost kind of create like a paste get really
into the little bits i still had and now let this sit for a couple minutes all right
now let these sit for a couple minutes i'm going to go after them again with toothbrush
one last time now if you still have some rust i recommend taking some water and powder to kind of
make a paste and the idea here is that using the grittiness of the power to kind of break up that
rust for blades and spinners i can do the same thing to make a paste let it sit for a couple
minutes let that bar keeper let that acid in that bar keeper's friend do its work and also if you
want that extra shine um you do want a couple things you can use some silver and metal polish
here if you're looking for the extra shine or what i'm going to do is take all these things
after they're dried off i'm gonna spray some spray wax on it all right it's almost done here what we
need to do is i have some mustad hooks this is a size four red so when i restore a lure i don't
put both treble hooks on i just put the back hook on and i leave this one empty actually i
should probably just cut that split ring off and i have just as much luck catching fish
with one off the back and this is the one that usually gets hooked up anyways i use my booms
pliers to get this split ring open paint the butt ever tried to open up a split ring before
they're super tiny a little lip there for the treble hook to kind of sneak into let's go
i'm gonna work it around it's like what a keychain all right got both of those set up since i never
used the front split rings i'm going to cut those off goodbye so the last thing i'm going to do is
take this slick mist from lucas the speed wax and all you have to do is shake this up pretty good
apply just a fine mist and then wipe dry with a soft towel and you got some shiny lures so
i'll go ahead and spray these spray spray turn them over spray
spray go ahead and take a paper towel
and wipe these down so have you ever found a laura you didn't know how to fish well i got
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