Thread: New paddletail baits

X2 motoroil with some x2amber. red and black .040 flake. There's a little orange hi lite in there too. The picture is under indoor lighting. In the sun this is a nifty color.

The above color matches one of my favorites on a lake I used to fall fish quite a bit. The bait is a southern pro Crappie magnum tube 2". P'kin PPR/Org/ChartPP. I never could understand what it was about that color but the crappie sure did love it.

Tom - thanks for the info, as I've said before I'm not going to get into plastics as overall cost it's cheaper for me to order from you guys. Once I get some bills caught up you'll be hearing from me. LOL

Originally Posted by CTom

Mike...

You'll get way better welds if you leave a little of the body meat on the tail piece.

Thanks. I tried that out and the paddletail looks much better. It was a pain in the butt trying to just put the tail back in the mold and have it stay put without a little of the body anyway my friend.

Mike

Originally Posted by shipahoy41

Thanks. I tried that out and the paddletail looks much better. It was a pain in the butt trying to just put the tail back in the mold and have it stay put without a little of the body anyway my friend.

Mike

Mike put a little bit of oil on have of the mold shoot it then poll your mold a part your plastic baits will be on half take a razor blade cut for the tail and pull the body off put it back together and reshoot you will have any problems.

They look good. They are getting close to a slider. Just wish the tail was lil bit thinner and it'd be spot on.

The only thing common between the Slider and the Do-It bait is the length. They are both 1 1/2".

The Slider's tails are way thicker and the tail web is taller and thicker than that of the Do-It and the tail button itself on the Do-It is quite a bit thinner and smaller in diameter. Body-wise, the Do-It grub is way more streamlined. Do-It's narrow tail makes it a whole lot more sunfish friendly.

The bait in my original picture on the far left has a tail mold that shoots a bait almost identical to the 1" Slider but there too the tail bait, the bait shown and the slider have very thick and wide tails with much more webbing mass than the Do-It. With the smaller diameter tail button, the tail web dimensions of Do-It's bait can also be smaller yet afford the great action the tails possess. There's been about 6 or 7 months of development time in these paddletails. They are one sweet bait.

CTom, just looked at doit web page. Couldnt find theese two molds any where,which section are they under. Also talked to doit and new plastic will be out in 3 weeks. Dave