No matter how good your fishing set-up is, if it is dirty it is worth nothing. Check out these cleaning tips to ensure your fishing equipment stays in its peak performance year after year.
Cleaning your Equipment
Cleanliness is Next to Godliness:
Every fisherman should have the following tools in their to be used to clean their equipment.
1) A small flat-blade and Phillips head screwdriver for small screws. These can be purchase at any drug stores as eyeglass repair kits.
2) A pair of long-nose pliers which can be used to remove or replace tiny screws and parts.
3) A small flashlight
4) A container to hold parts while repairing or cleaning your equipment.
5) A small kitchen strainer which can be used to hold parts as they are washed under hot water.
Polish Reels:
One of the most inexpensive ways to polish your reel is in your medicine cabinet, toothpaste. Once you dismantle the reel, just combine some toothpaste with some reel grease in a 50/50 mixture and apply to the area you would like to be polished. Next reassemble the reel and manually wind the reel for a few hours which lets the polish compound do its magic. After the gears are polished clean out the polish compound with soap and water and grease and oil all the parts.
Tackle Boxes:
During the winter months when the fishing is nonexistent, is a perfect time to clean your tackle box. Once you take everything out of it clean it with a mixture made of water and baking soda.
Lures:
To give you chrome plated spinners, spoons, and lures a new shine, use a mixture of vinegar and banking soda and rub it to the tarnished, stained, or dull parts of you tackle.
Polish Spoons:
In order to restore the luster and shine of these types of lures get some toothpaste and some steel wool. Remove the gime with the steel wool, and then use the toothpaste to polish the surface.
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