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08/20/18 11:14 PM
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SteezMacQueen
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Dang! I didn't know they swelled up in the water over time. Look at this zoom "alligator".  Keep em till your done....then throw them in the trash can.
Eat. Sleep. Fish.
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Re: Used plastics
[Re: SteezMacQueen]
#12870758
08/20/18 11:29 PM
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GIG'EM AGGIES
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WOW, that's an eye opener. In the trash can from now on. Thanks for sharing Steez.
I am a Senager. (Senior teenager) I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 50 years later. I get an allowance every month. I have PU truck and a bass boat, I am blessed.
Conscience never acquits, it either accuses or excuses.
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Re: Used plastics
[Re: SteezMacQueen]
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08/21/18 12:09 AM
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jbcarroll3000
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This makes sense. I've found some soft plastics while swimming around my dock and for the life of me couldn't figure out what they were because they were huge. I thought one of them was a super-sized sweet beaver, but couldn't find a product as big as it was. This weekend, I was throwing a deep crank and dragged up what looked like a 15 inch worm that was really big around too. Couldn't figure out what it would have been. Was probably just an ol' monster that had been down there for a while now that I see this. Thanks for figuring this out.
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Re: Used plastics
[Re: SteezMacQueen]
#12871307
08/21/18 01:08 PM
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Reel Addict
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PB Largemouth 8.56 Lake Fork
PB Largemouth 8.98 Sam Rayburn (Big Bass Splash)
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Re: Used plastics
[Re: SteezMacQueen]
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08/21/18 01:26 PM
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greenen
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Yep. That's why we shouldn't let them float but as stated throw them in a box for later re-melt or trash.
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Re: Used plastics
[Re: SteezMacQueen]
#12871330
08/21/18 01:29 PM
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bassmanrudy
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found this before. supposed to be a 4.5" craw tube and was over 10" long and round as a coke can. regular beaver and my grip scale for comparison. 
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Re: Used plastics
[Re: SteezMacQueen]
#12871357
08/21/18 01:48 PM
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squib
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I've pulled stuff out of fish's gullets that makes you wonder how the fish was alive. They will sometimes have a belly fully of these bloated plastics and, as a result, the fish is starving to death. I always throw my plastics in the trash; never in the lake.
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Re: Used plastics
[Re: SteezMacQueen]
#12871359
08/21/18 01:50 PM
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squib
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Not my image, but one I found on the internet. 
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Re: Used plastics
[Re: SteezMacQueen]
#12871364
08/21/18 01:53 PM
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Nekro
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Wow that crazy, I didn't know they turned like that. Defiantly trashing them and even the ones I see on the floor when I go fish.
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Re: Used plastics
[Re: SteezMacQueen]
#12871366
08/21/18 01:56 PM
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AdvTX
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I have fished with a few people and seen them toss their used plastics in the water and then got an ear full from me. I bet 90% of plastics floating around get eaten by something either a fish or other animal.
The day after catching a lot of fish is still a good day.
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Re: Used plastics
[Re: bassmanrudy]
#12871944
08/21/18 07:27 PM
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Jeff From Iowa
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found this before. supposed to be a 4.5" craw tube and was over 10" long and round as a coke can. regular beaver and my grip scale for comparison. I found one that size in Iowa, I dont think that is from swelling I think it was that big of a lure, the one I found was pretty hard and had a 4 inch hook in it and what seemed like 65 lb mono on it
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Re: Used plastics
[Re: SteezMacQueen]
#12872478
08/22/18 03:32 AM
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billclay
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This does happen. I found a SK Menace Grub under the seat of my sit in kayak that was five times the normal size. It would probably have been larger if it had been totally submerged.
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Re: Used plastics
[Re: SteezMacQueen]
#12872493
08/22/18 03:53 AM
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kingfish_1970
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I "grew" a 5" senko type bait one time. Didn't know it was that moist in the bag,but I guess it was. It was about 15" long when I last looked at it. Hope it catches more than one fish, cause I'm saving it for Falcon r Fork.
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Re: Used plastics
[Re: SteezMacQueen]
#12874082
08/23/18 01:48 PM
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Klinker
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Hell, I am going to go soak in the lake!
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Re: Used plastics
[Re: SteezMacQueen]
#12874094
08/23/18 01:58 PM
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Jarrett Latta
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Ya I've found similar baits in the bilge area that get there by accident. An ol monster or Magnum lizard get enourmous.
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