View attachment 7I was tinkering around doing some plastics for a gift. This came out of a cavity of solid color baits. No way I can reproduce it and I don't know for sure how it happened. Hope you can see the colors.
WHAT THE HECK
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ScottV
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Your not fooling me toadfrog, that's a real bug. LOL That looks great, too bad you couldn't make a bunch of those.
LedHed
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Excellent - TF - need to figure that out
I tried everything I could think of but it ain't gonna work that way again. Guess I'll frame it. Any body got a suggestion . I tried slurping up 2 colors in the injector . Placing a bit of plastic in the mold. Tried the plastic swirl and slurp. (I hate sonic commercials when I'm typing ) This is gonna drive me nuts if I don't figure it out. I hate the question WHY!
JUNGLEJIM1
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I like the color as well. How long is the bait? Thinkin smallie or gill bait. I think it would be great on a football head.
Its 2'' But I can't reproduce that color. I can however put a color on each side. If you take a football head mold drill it in the center of the point then j b weld a flat head rivet in it will give you a recessed eye socket.
Fish Candy Bait Company
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I guess all you could do is shoot the tails then trim off the body. Then shoot the green and trim it off and shoot the front. Not sure how it happened.
Ron Don
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Cool! Yep you will have to use the cut and shoot technique.
JSC
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Hey TF .. was that shot with re run plastic or new ?
If it was new could have been a little wad in the injector that mixed in at just the right time.
If it was re run anything can happen.
I Like the looks of it but I don't know if it would be worth all the effort of cutin and shootin.
JSC
If it was new could have been a little wad in the injector that mixed in at just the right time.
If it was re run anything can happen.
I Like the looks of it but I don't know if it would be worth all the effort of cutin and shootin.
JSC
New but the container had had old plastic in it before. The only thing I can think is abit of old got slurped up. because black with fine and medium glitter is what I was shooting. Got the glitter from a reputable dealer so thats not it. I tested that. I do remember some hesitation in the injector. Thats probably where I got the snot ball at. Freakin cool though especially if you hold it in natural light.
snake River
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I think somebody's is hooked on Rick's molds.
snake River
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toadfrog said:
I got a big head start on you. I am going to post some pictures here a little bit to the pictures are rigidly designed by me of course Rick has full release on selling more the molds that I've designed or redesigned.
snake River
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I have that mold but we had Rick put a twister tail on it I don't know if he sales that mold are not anymore.
I've been keeping track . Usually I pinch off the head and put a ball head jig with 3D eyes in its place . dosen't change the lure a bit . Makes them even more cool looking . I not only like his molds but he has my kind of taste in music too .
snake River
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I had a lot of fun playing with that mold you could do so many different things with it though it's not my favorite plastic bait but it does have very good potential with a twister tail I have never tried the other one with the Beavertail I would imagine they are both very productive.
It's not too shabby. I found it to be pretty good in the spring but notice a decline in hits as the weather heated up . Sounds crazy but that is the way it went . Twister tails on anything work pretty much all year long until you throw it out and it just bounces on the ice .
Fatman
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Even if you can't get the exact color you can still pour lots of different colors in the mold.