my your first attempt was successful in many different ways you are on the right track for one thing and there's nothing wrong in the way that you are putting it on I suggest when you get my clear plastic that you get the whole bait all the way down to the tail and pull it back out and let it drip off you should be getting a chuckle plastic maybe by the end of the week or the first of next week have fun Mike welcome aboard to the plastics world all this is just the beginning Mike you are going to get hooked big time now you're going to be wanting molds all that just the tip of the iceberg then comes all the other goodies that goes with it and then when you shoot your first plastics this is really going to hook you deep and then when you get your first fish on something that you made out of the plastics you're going to have UPS coming by every week from now on.:rolleyes: