Polished brass

[TooDrunkToFish]

I recently acquired some shiny brass spoons and spinner blades.

What products do you folks recommend for coating the brass, to keep them from oxidizing? Polyurethane, lacquer, clear nail polish?

[CR dog]

I personally like the effects of galvanic corrosion on tackle. Sends out a very small electrical, attracting charge. That's how spinners work. My best spinners had pits on the underside of the brass blade. If they're spoons, just keep pollishing them if they are working. :twocents:

[CRD4Liberty]

I take some brass spinner blades/spoons and put them in used coffee grounds and let them set in there for a couple weeks.
This color or black work very well in low/clear water conditions of summer.

[Mark Mc]

This is a little commercial salmon trolling thing. You start by polishing the spoons with a typical rubbing compound like Red Bear (a powder). They stay pretty shiny while in use In the water). What matters is what happens at the end of the day.........

You call up Englund Marine or Seattle Marine, and ask for something called Hydrotone. It is a liquid.....you put just a small amount, like 1/2 ounce, in a container with 6 or 8 ounces of FRESH water. Immediately after use, rinse the spoons off with fresh water, and put your spoons in this stuff, completely immersed. Even if you leave them in for weeks or months, you take them out and they are as shiny as when you put them in.

I mention it in my chinook trolling tutorial:

http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=116028 some photos of the brass / copper / chrome spoons

By golly, here it is on page 489 of this catalog, along with the Red Bear polish:

http://www.seamar.com/pdf/troll.pdf