Thread: Mold question

I am thinking about making a Bobby Garland Baby Shad mold from plaster. I have made a one piece mold in the past an looking for something quicker. The one piece mold works good and I still use it but it can take a long time to get a good bait. I also made a two piece mold for this bait. I couldn't get the plastic all the way to the tail. I tried getting the plastic hotter, sealing the mold again, and venting. None worked. I was thinking I could try to pour from the tail to the belly. Would this work better? Are there any good injection molds very similar to this bait? Are there any close silicone molds from lurecraft that are close?

Tyler....

I use a lot of purple and Florida grape, blues, white, black, fluorescent orange, hot pink and chartreuse. You can add a tiny bit of blue to chartreuse to get green chartreuse so you really won't need green chartreuse. I'd forget the red. The black and white are not colors I use by themselves unless someone want some baits done in them, but I do use both for "adjusting" colors I am developing or making so they do have importance to me.

Most of my personal baits are sort of purple or Florida grape with a chartreuse tail or a couple of clears I make with chartreuse tails. There are three different clear baits I carry. One is called bluegill and has the same amounts of copper, blue, purple and green glitter in plain clear plastic. Another is firecracker which again is crystal clear with red, blue and silver .015 glitters in it, same amounts. The last one is clear plastic with fire opal and silver micro glitter in it, same amounts of each glitter. The micro glitter [all glitters for that matter] come from Do-It corp. The micro glitter is found in the paint and coatings section of the lead jigheads area.

All of my plastics.....clear, colored, transparent, opaque.....get uv enhancement added. This is a powder product from Do-It that is found in the colorants area of the plastics section. I consider the uv enhancement as necessary as the plastic itself. Just a tiny bit per 4 ounce batch makes all the difference in the world. UV powder is spendy at around $9.00 for a 2 ounce jar. I got my first jar over two years ago and am still working out of it if that helps ease the initial pain of investment. It goes a real long way both added in the plastic and the results from hits.

I have just about every X2 color that Do-It offers and will suggest that you invest in those colorants. They're super potent and last what seems forever.

Gold, blue, red and green hi lite powder is another suggested product. Do-It or any other on-line plastic sales site has these and they generally are pretty easy on the budget. Hi lite goes a super long way too.

For panfish baits I'd just stick with some common colors of glitter in .015 size. I'd also get black in the .040 size.

Heres the Do-It on-line store link..... Do-it Molds - Fishing lure and jig molds

Living in Austin you can run east of town and hot on 218 South and get to the Do-It corporate offices and plant in about 75 minutes. They're located in Denver, Iowa, right on Hiway 63, 11 miles north of Waterloo. Its an interesting visit.

Here's a picture of the two baits and the better colors for me, Tyler. The firecracker is the clear bait at the picture center on the left. The other two clear ones are both bluegill. The hazy clear one has the micro glitter, which doesn't play well for cameras. The deep purple is the Florida Grape. The blue bait is a mix of X2 blue and fluorescent blue. The glitter is blue but shows up as black almost in the picture.