Reply With QuoteI like your baits they look so natural.
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My username is derived from my decade old discovery of making a minnow shape using hot plastic and a tablespoon.
1. heat the plastic to a thin liquid
2. dip the spoon into it, remove the spoon and let cool
3. take the film off the spoon and lie it on a hard surface
4. use a blade to cut the shape seen below
5. dip the front of the wider part into hot plastic, lifting and cooling between dips to increase body thickness.
Various shapes, some colored with Spike-It die markers
These two were made from an injection mold. The shape and tail thinness basically the same:
Note: clear/ noncolored plastic catches as many fish as colored lures - hard of soft plastic.
Last edited by Spoonminnow; 12-31-2025 at 05:18 AM.
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The thin quiver-tail is key. The shape even works under a float. I added one to a French Fry stick segment:
This one from a mold dyed with Spike-It:
Note the clear tail.
Made a few extras just in case:
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I should send you all my scraps that I have left over from when I’m shooting molds.
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Thanks, but I got a bunch of scraps + fresh plastisol in jugs I won't use anytime soon.Originally Posted by snake River
More than that are a large number of soft plastics - some still in bags - that I can take parts from and add to parts of other plastic lures using a candle flame to melt the ends. (the top photo is such a hybrid).
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We throw away tons of even the whole plastics that are that are just a little bit off of color or whatever but I throw plastic baits away by the hundreds, so if any of you guys are interested, I would only charge you the shipping if you’re wanting any of these.
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Amazing the amount of tackle we don't know what to do with but not sure if any of it should be put out at the curb for p/u. That goes for old rods and reels that need parts to lures maybe used once. It's a sickness that took me 5 decades to discover that I had!
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Wait till your sickness has taken over my whole life so I have so much stuff accumulated over the years course. It be like a paradise with some of the guys what we have in storage and plus I keep adding to it is the bad thing I got rods. I never even used sitting there collecting dust over many years. The funny thing about it is I don’t use the expensive type of rods. I usually go to Walmart and buy the cheapest.Amazing the amount of tackle we don't know what to do with but not sure if any of it should be put out at the curb for p/u. That goes for old rods and reels that need parts to lures maybe used once. It's a sickness that took me 5 decades to discover that I had!
