As I am going thru my stuff from this past season most of my traps were not used, but the ones that were have minimal amount of surface rust on them. These are all water traps, does anyone just wax the traps personally I don’t like the black contrast, for others to spot.

it won't stop the rust

You'd be better off financially and physically to use Southern Snares Ambush dip.

Comes in black, brown, green, white....

No mixing. Good, durable finish. Drys within a day.

All my water traps are dyed/waxed or painted. Just waxing silver traps stands out almost as bad as white in water

I have always just dipped my water traps. Only wax land traps.

These traps are mostly painted, not new traps probably 15 years old or better. In the past I just painted water traps but these still have about 1/3 still covered in wax. I really like having my water traps waxed.