How does salt content change a soft plastic, and how should it be specified?
Short answer
Salt is a priced ingredient before it is a fishing feature. Bassmaster's account of density records that stickworms are typically moulded from a dense plastic infused with salt to increase weight and sink rate, that salt arrived in soft plastics as a taste additive with the Gene Larew Salt Craw in 1983, and that denser plastic tends to harden the bait while softer, less dense plastic sinks more slowly.
In detail
Specify it as a percentage by weight of the finished bait and agree how the factory measures it, because a salt figure carried across from a different formula is not a comparable number.
The numbers behind this answer
| Formulation choice | What the source says it does | What it changes in the quote |
|---|---|---|
| Texture and durometer | Outdoor Canada's makers say a bait can be made as soft or hard as you like by changing the ratio of resins to plasticisers, that a soft stickbait reads as a nightcrawler while a firmer tube reads as a crayfish, and that fish hold on longer when the feel matches the forage (Outdoor Canada) | Durometer is a separate order line from salt content, and a buyer who specifies only grams of weight has not specified the bait at all |
| Formulation choice | What the source says it does | What it changes in the quote |
|---|---|---|
| Unsalted, soft pour | Bassmaster records that the original thin-walled tube carried no salt, and that softer, less dense plastics sink more slowly and are preferred for finesse work (Bassmaster) | The lowest ingredient cost and the slowest fall, bought back as a bait that tears up sooner and needs more of them per session |
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