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I removed the plastic finish from 1 rapala. I thought if I heated it up a little I could slip the coating off. The coating burns VERY quickly. Rapalas would make an excellent emergency fire starter. I am going to strip the bad ones and top coat the scuffed up ones. AlamOso, thanks. Redg8r, my pleasure. I feel like a little kid at Christmas every time I make a good haul. The limeaway, clr type cleaners only work on the very lite deposits.

Hello,Thanks for the welcome and reply. I was figuring on applying the finish over the top coat on the rapalas, and the rest of them also, have you tried that? All my lures were found in fresh water. Most are structually sound. Mineral deposits are the biggest problem. I plan on sanding the crud off them. It appears that i am going to have a lot more prep work than I had anticipated.

Hello, I have a couple of 5 gal. pails of various lures I have found while diving. Thanks to this site and the contributers I have a good idea what to do with them. Just a couple concerns. Should I prep/prime the plastic bodied baits the same as the wood bodied? And I guess this whould include the rapalas, they seem to have a thick pastic like covering?