Soft plastic -grub plastersol based

 
 

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Plastisol is a high quality liquid soft plastic that is Phthalate free and is the common base material for most soft plastic lures. Lures made of this material should not be stored with lures based on Elastec material such as Zman lures or lures made of TPE materials such as Chasebaits.

If plastisol based soft plastics are stored with either Elastec or TPE based lures those lures and the plastisol lures will melt on become disfigured.

Consequently I keep my plastisol based lures in one lure box and have separate lure boxes for each of my Elastec and TPE based lures.

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Grubs 

Grubs is a generic term often applied by fly fishers to describe the lava of terrestrial insects such as beetles, moths and butter flies, grass hoppers and crickets. They often find themselves unwittingly in the water and on the trout’s menu.

Chatto’s Grub tail prawn – open/top pour soft plastic

This combination, my grub tail prawn, has earned a place in my tackle box as a favourite when scroungers such as fingermark, blue salmon, grunter, mangrove jack, flathead, bigger than average bream and of course rock cod are on the chew.

Happy Rock Softies – grub

This just one of the Happy Rock softies that is a credit to its designer Trev Burgess. He gave me my fist one probably two years ago and I have been using them ever since. Unfortunately Trevor passed away in a tragic boating accident at Lake Awoonga on 4th September 2020. A very sad day […]

 


Last Updated: February 21, 2022
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