Thread: Crappie Carrots

Originally Posted by CTom

Nice looking sheet of plastic there. I don't like traditional colors and prefer to juice them up some especially the fluorescents. I make my orange and then dip a toothpick in tomato about 1/4" and whip it in the mix. With the gold hi lite I get a super hot orange that looks gold plated from another angle. My chartreuse gets a wee bit of violet hi lites but I also add a drop of white and a drop of green to a 4 ounce batch too. You have to see it to understand what happens. Then of course there is the blue hi lite in hot pink....in the sun it'll make your eyes water. And I add the uv enhancement to every color, every batch I whip up.

This is how I do my orange except I have a very fine gold glitter as well. Really loving the blue hi-lite in the pink. This will be the way I do it from now on. My chartreuse gets a smidge of green hi-lite as well as 1 drop lime green along with chartreuse. Every now and then I do a drop of white. Mainly on my Mo Magic to make the tail more of a solid chartreuse since it's tail is so thin. Thanks for the advice ctom. I have applied a lot of your techniques to my baits since I started pouring back in September. I keep telling myself I'm going to put eyes on my plastics like you do but just don't get around to doing it.

Eyes are for the camera. Personally the only baits with eyes that I fish are those few that I toss in my tackle pail after getting a nice picture. Eyes sell, but they are expensive to add to something where they aren't needed. My boxes of stingers and paddletails are just color, no extras such as eyes. My foremost favorite color is a purple-blue, not really one or the other entirely, with purple glitter and its always matched up with a chartreuse tail. The way the color works in our northern waters is uncanny and goes from lake to lake to river catching fish wherever. That same purple color will get a few hot pink tails for when a color shake-up is called for. An orange tail does the same. The bluegill color I make and have shown here is a second best color and gets the same tail color options. Black sees all three tail colors too. I seldom fish any combinations of white, chartreuse, orange or pink as body colors. Geographic differences are fun to look at and read about. Size, colors, shapes....all relevant information, but oh so regional. lol

Its little things that one can do to tweak a color that seem to stand out the most. Hi Lites and color adjustment are just a couple. Glitter does things once in a while that goes over the top too. And on glitter, I always add it AFTER the color of the plastic has been created and cooked.

By the way Nip.....Happy Easter.

Happy Easter to you too. It's a rainy Easter here.

Rain is a chance here today too. We woke up to sun but its mostly cloudy here now. Windier than heck again. If the wind didn't blow for a dayI'd think I was somewhere I shouldn't be. Beautiful Easter Sunday though.

Dr. Who's chartruese do you use?

RnD pics???? Great looking work and post

Originally Posted by CTom

Eyes are for the camera. Personally the only baits with eyes that I fish are those few that I toss in my tackle pail after getting a nice picture. Eyes sell, but they are expensive to add to something where they aren't needed. My boxes of stingers and paddletails are just color, no extras such as eyes. My foremost favorite color is a purple-blue, not really one or the other entirely, with purple glitter and its always matched up with a chartreuse tail. The way the color works in our northern waters is uncanny and goes from lake to lake to river catching fish wherever. That same purple color will get a few hot pink tails for when a color shake-up is called for. An orange tail does the same. The bluegill color I make and have shown here is a second best color and gets the same tail color options. Black sees all three tail colors too. I seldom fish any combinations of white, chartreuse, orange or pink as body colors. Geographic differences are fun to look at and read about. Size, colors, shapes....all relevant information, but oh so regional. lol

Its little things that one can do to tweak a color that seem to stand out the most. Hi Lites and color adjustment are just a couple. Glitter does things once in a while that goes over the top too. And on glitter, I always add it AFTER the color of the plastic has been created and cooked.

By the way Nip.....Happy Easter.

What is you best catching bait?

My chartreuse recipe is as follows:
4 oz Do-it Essential plasital
15 drops X2 chartreuse
1 drop X2 lime green
A small paint can opener scoop of Do-it green hi-lite
A large paint can opener scoop of Do-it UV

Here are some pics of the pink with blue hi-lite.