Fishing Rod Rack

Rust and plastic don’t go well, they stain it and removing it is very awkward. There are various things you can try, which have worked in the past for me, try cleaning it with a little alcohol, if that doesn’t work spray a small amount of WD-40 onto it and clean with a dry cloth.

If you feel WD-40 is too strong i would really recommend using liquid silicone spray. It doesn’t damage plastic, and can be used on electrical components.

Now to stop it forming again, and to help to dry out your box, if you forget and put the lures back wet try these, i have them in most of my bags to keep moisture out.

This will also help to stop your lures rusting
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Rust doesn’t hide in a box, but the moisture that causes it surely can. To avoid that condition, you must have a “dry” box at all times. If you are one of those like me who realize that some of our best fishing comes from days when the air we breathe is almost as wet as the water we fish, you’ll know how tough it is keeping tackle dry. And every time we replace a wet lure with a dry one and store it away in the box, we just added another link to the rust factor to lures and hooks inside. Rain, high humidity, and wet tackle are all pretty hard to avoid if you fish much at all. So it isn’t about prevention, it is all about treatment. What you do (or don’t) to treat the condition of over-abundant accumulations of moisture. Consider this: First, start with a totally clean box. If it’s really a mess, moss and mud encrusted, take it to the do-it-yourself car wash and give it a good blast with the power nozzle and hot, soapy water. It won’t even hurt it if it gets rinsed with the hot wax setting. But BEFORE you refill the trays with lures, hooks and other paraphernalia, you must be absolutely certain that inside is totally dry. (Remember: water IS hiding in every crease and cranny.) Use a hair dryer to dry the interior completely. Of if you prefer, set a fan in front of a portable heater and set the tackle box on its end in front of the fan. It should be totally dry after either treatment within a half hour or less. To treat the creases and seams in trays, etc. from taking on future moisure, seal them with WD-40. Most folks don’t know that the “W” and the “D” stand for “Water Displacement” because oil floats on water, but water floats on WD-40. The 40 represents the number of formulas it took before the manufacturers found one that worked as they hoped it would. Don’t worry about the WD-40 adding unwanted scents to the tackle because one of the ingredients in the spray is fish oil, and commercial and sport fisherman have been using it successfully as a lure additive for more than a couple of decades. Once you have a box started in the right direction, you must remember that when you expose the contents to moisture again from rain, surf, dew, heavy fog, wet lures or tackle, tears of joy, or perhaps tears of sorrow because you just lost a BIG fish because of a rusty hook, you WILL have to dry out the box after each and EVERY fishing trip. Instead of leaving it ignored and neglected in the back of the boat, or hidden away in the trunk of your car, bring it inside where it is (hopefully) warm and dry and let it air out and dry out. You could put the little drier packets in the box as some will suggest, but if everything else in the box is wet, they will be too, and there is a limit to just how well and how much those products can work. Nothing works better than we do….that is when we actually decide to work at all. And “work” is hard to consider when the alternative is “fishing”. But some things, a man just has to do. Keeping his tackle fresh and dry is one of them. You already knew why. Now you know how. ;o) Good luck and good fishing!