Changed the hooks once or twice.....once you hook fish it seems the salinity from the fish mouth begin immediately to corrode the hooks? Just my theory! They rust all on their own without catching but once you begin catching......they break down quicker.
Bigfish Your plug looks like mostly boofish and hook marks. I,ll bit it will be good for another twenty years.
I still use a couple of green needles from the eighties that have been sanded by bass . The hole back end and they still catch fine
Changed the hooks once or twice.....once you hook fish it seems the salinity from the fish mouth begin immediately to corrode the hooks? Just my theory! They rust all on their own without catching but once you begin catching......they break down quicker.
More likely the fish scratch the plating on the hook and expose the less rust resistant metal beneath. Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
That may be the case but my point is once a VMC starts catching it corrodes alot faster than ones that have simply been in the water be it scratched or the fact that the slime/bodily fluids in a fish' mouth speed up the corrosion process.
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