plastics environmentally friendly?

[bucketmouth64]

I was told that when your plastic worm (or other plastic bait)comes off it will really balloon up overtime and fish can die from them by suffocation if they eat it. Along this point, since plastic bags and containers are not good for the environment because it takes a zillion years to decompose, are plastic worms made differently to be biodegradeable? Are there worm brands that are more environmentally friendly like Gulp or Mister Twister Exudes? Don't these decompose once they get wet?

[Deitz Dittrich]

Try this on your own. Take a normal plastic and put it in water. Over time, lots of time they do get bigger. I however think if a bass were to eat a plastic worm, it would pass it before it got to the point that it would kill it. More often than not it may or may not also puke it up.

I know for a fact that if you put Exude in water, over a long, VERY LONG peroid of time it gets very very soft and eventually is mostly gone, its held together by a more liquid type hardener. Gulp like you mentioned is another which may be more "friendly" but air is one of its active features.. not sure what happens if you leave it in water for a long time.

Your nomal plastic worm does not decompose. Typical plastic worms are made fot he same material as PVC pipe is. Then softener is added to give it softness and moveablility. As you know.. PVC also is here for the long haul.

[Flaco651]

Food source lures are another one that is supposed to be 100% biodegradeable.

[Ralph Wiggum]

If a fish swallows one, it will almost certainly puke it up. I've seen it many times. I once threw a curlytail grub in with a pet oscar to see how it would react--he had it swallowed in about half a second. I was a little worried, but it came back up in a few hours.

[Slyster]

I love Oscars.. we have 2 of them.

I hate losing lures.. I always feel bad thinking of how many are down there on the bottom of the lake.

[Fishing_High]

I see people throw used tore up plastics in the lake all the time when there done using them. How bad is this for a lake? I usually have a junk plastic bag I throw all my used up bad ones in and toss it when I get home.

[JP Z]

It can't be good for a lake as it is a plastisol and technically in a small sense aren't they carcinogens? But foremost, it is Littering. As you are purposely depositing a foreign object into a body of water, with NO plans to retrieve (fishing).

[Deitz Dittrich]

I never throw a used plastic into the lake, no matter the brand.. I throw it in my livewell(usually my trash bag) till I get home!

[JP Z]

Unless of course they sneak through you're livewell drain....then you are using what we like to call "stealth littering"

[Deitz Dittrich]

LOL @ JP... I got the plug in brother!

[ocf1]

Just a word on why to pick up trash at a lake....

Today I was shorefishing and I pick up some trash, I come across a Fleet farm bag in the water, and what do you know, there is 10 dollars of bobbers in there!