Editorial: Remembering a great magazine/ Testing Products/ Tips:Rehydrate Powerbait

How many of us have gone fishing with Dough bait and found frustration after opening a previously opened jar only to find it rock hard and unusable? Probably a heck of a lot of you as well as myself included. Dough bait isn’t cheap these days so how come it turns rock hard after a season you might wonder? A few years back, many manufacturers used Glass jars with silicone inside the lids which did a good job keeping dough bait softer and lasting longer. 

Due to economics, it was determined that plastic jars were cheaper to produce and they would make more money by switching from glass to plastic jars. The lids switched as well and that silicone inside the lid also went by the wayside. I guess if dough bait dried out quicker so the sales would go up quicker too. 

I tried adding a little water to my jars of dough bait to get it back to working order with some limited success. Adding too much water made the dough bait unusable and too little water still made it rock hard and unusable. So, after some experimenting, a guy on the internet worked out the bugs and posted a “how to” video on renewing dough bait. I’ll let the man show you how he goes and renews dough bait via his “You Tube” video at this URL: Rehydrate Your Dough Bait  Click onto underlined URL and it takes you to You Tube video.

After watching the video there was something that I needed to do. I have approx. 15 jars of dough bait in my garage. I went out to inspect my supply and at least 10 jars were in need of rehydrating so I guess this is my project this afternoon. I guess there was one other item left out in the video that needed to be mentioned. To stop this problem in the very near future it would be smart to put a thin layer of clear silicone to the inside screw edge of the plastic lid. Another good tip was to store dough bait upside down so evaporation is less. I have my work cut out for me today and I think a fair number of you do too.