There are many small things you can modify at home on your lures. A lot of these things are huge confidence boosters for me.

Most of these modifications just take to much time to try and do on the water, but there are a few ways to make them quick and efficient on the water.

Quick Bloody Gills

One of these small mods I like to do is add a red gill on my soft plastic swimbaits. I use soft plastic paint from LureCraft.

This paint comes in big containers that are frankly a pain in the ass to keep on my boat. So what I like to do is get an old nail polish bottle, rinse it out with acetone, then fill it up with the soft plastic paint. The containers have an application brush for quick easy on the water mods.

This works on all soft plastics including frogs and other topwater lures made of PVC.

Shown here on a Little Creeper prototype 8" Trash Fish (Link to smaller version)

There are many colors available and I like to keep some green and black on the boat as well to add spots to trout baits or other details to frogs, etc.

Here's a link to the red I like to use: Colortech Red from LureCraft

Previously on the Wired Angler:

How to Make Soft Plastic Swimbait Eyes – Part One | Part Two

Custom Jigs Made Easy

How To Protect Your Cork Handles