I HATE RUST! HOW DO I STOP IT?

[JMS-ILM]

i am pretty finicky about my tackle. i use 5 gallon buckets with lids for my inshore tackle. i have holes drilled around the outside lip of the bucket to hang my rigs and lures on that i have used that day. the whole bucket gets hosed off after the trip and rigs/lures hang dry on the bucket. same with offshore rigs....hosed and hung to dry until they are stored.

another thing that i think helps, is i store all my tackle inside the house...not the garage or shed....inside the house in climate controlled conditions. i am single and live by myself, so i guess this is not an option for lots of you .

as for tools, i just buy cheap needle noses. i usually drop them overboard or lose them in the surf before they have a chance to rust shut anyway.

the one thing that i have not been able to control the rust on is the factory trebles that come on mirrolure plugs. you even get near saltwater and they rust. and it is this powdery rust that falls off the hooks and works its way into every compartment in your t-boxes and stains everything in its path. the bad thing is the hooks are sharp as crap and work great....but i have gotten to where i just replace them fresh out of the package with red daiichi's. the red coating on those SOB's wears off after a fish or two so i replace them sometimes after every trip if the drum/trout have chewed the coating off.

[matey1]

where are youguys getting your corrison x? i have looked at all the local marine supply places around me and no one carries it.

[HOLWACHAGOT]

Thanks to all that responded. Very good ideas to be found here.

[Deep C]

Whink, muriatic acid, ospho, naval jelley will all get rid of rust but with hooks it has a bad side effect. The nice clean shiny looking hook has become way brittle. I have made the mistake of thinking they were ok. Worked so good in cleaning one hook I did a couple hundred buck worth... Mistake! They all were so brittle that they snapped like toth picks on contact with any prssure. So that was a pile of shiny shit for the dumpster ...

Little hooks get put in little air tight boxes. Big hooks get put in bigger boxes. When the little ones rust they get used for snappers and small reef junk. The big ones either get sanded and markered or taken off the A-team and become my shark hooks...

[HeadHunt]

It also helps to keep different types of hooks and swivels separated. Dis-similiar metal thing. Cheap hooks will cause the good hooks to rust in the tray if they are touching each other.

HH