walleye food

[CTom]

Ya, ya, ya....i know, this is a crappie board but hey sometimes a guy has to grow a little.

The walleyes have been on a non-stop tear on the Mississippi River up in this area and everyone is shouting firecracker/chartreuse tail as the so after church this morning I sat down and did some playing. Both the standard firecracker and the purple firecracker have been hot so I came up with a hybrid cross between the two colors and added the all important chartreuse tail in a standard transparent chartreuse with just a pinch of violet hi lites. I added copper glitter to the green, blue and purple instead of silver. To make it at least sort of purple I popped in some violet hi lites here too and bingo.......





Now off to heat up the lead and cast a few heads for a much needed fishing adventure this Friday. I shot about 60 of these baits, enough for my buddy and I to feed the ever present snags and still have a few left over to try and tempt some crappies later on. For now though....these are walleye fodder.

[crappiefarmer]

Looks like crappie would tear into those too. They look good CTom.CF

[MO QWACK]

Good looking bait for sure! I think the only reason I crappie fish is because walleye are so rare here. Lol they Are a blast to catch. We get some hogs below Truman dam. A 5 pounder doesn't raise an eyebrow but as soon as there early spring run is over they disappear.

[shipahoy41]

I love the way those look.

[bfish]

How long are they?

[CTom]

How long are they?

2"

[gabowman]

You can call 'em walleye fodder, but down here in the south theyre some good looking crappie treats.Thumbs Up

[snake River]

Ya, ya, ya....i know, this is a crappie board but hey sometimes a guy has to grow a little.

The walleyes have been on a non-stop tear on the Mississippi River up in this area and everyone is shouting firecracker/chartreuse tail as the so after church this morning I sat down and did some playing. Both the standard firecracker and the purple firecracker have been hot so I came up with a hybrid cross between the two colors and added the all important chartreuse tail in a standard transparent chartreuse with just a pinch of violet hi lites. I added copper glitter to the green, blue and purple instead of silver. To make it at least sort of purple I popped in some violet hi lites here too and bingo.......





Now off to heat up the lead and cast a few heads for a much needed fishing adventure this Friday. I shot about 60 of these baits, enough for my buddy and I to feed the ever present snags and still have a few left over to try and tempt some crappies later on. For now though....these are walleye fodder.

nice looking plastic bait where did you get the mold or is this a combination of two different molds.

[lcookie]

Snake,

That is the Caney Creek paddle tail mold. The one Kieth designed after winning the contest.

[CTom]

I did some tweaking on a purple that I liked real well and came up with one that I think will replace the former favorite. I have to learn to leave things alone. lol

As soon as I finished my work in the shop I hung one of the new creations on my 1/32 jig and headed straight behind the house to the river and some practice casting. In 15 minutes of standing in the wind I scored one nice crappie. In my book one nice crappie is better than wondering if the color works, eh?



I cut back on colorant about ten drops and added some blue glitter to the plastic along with about twice as much purple glitter. Then I edged off on the violet hi lites quantity, using just a very small amount. I laid this plastic atop a nice clean chartreuse tail color with just a bit of blue hi lites in it. While this remains a crappie bait and one of my favorite summertime crappie color combinations, the Mississippi River walleyes and sauger are going to dine well on this bait too.