Pumpkinseeds

**CTom** · 07-06-2012, 12:32 PM

The heat has made me change my fishing habits....I've been heading out and getting home before the sun gets up. I have a lake near home where I can catch trout, crappies, bass, sunfish....you name it. Yesterday's jaunty showed me a couple decent crappies that went back to the water but while handling both of them they spit up their last lunch and most of it was small pumpkinseed sunfish. Got me to thinking and playing after I got home.

A while back i made up some small frys with an orange throat dot, but I wanted to do up some more similar to that first batch but with more orange across the belly's bottom edge. I came up with these.

Every color here is a left-over. The belly orange is a color I keep around for shooting tail pieces. The transparent belly color ia a bluegill that had begun to yellow just a tad from re-heats. The back color is a standard baby bass with some green hi lites add and then thinned out just a hair. One of these took the trip to the lake this morning and I have to say that it did very well on both trout and crappies. That one bait is still on the jig after 7 trout, up to 19 inches, but is minus one eye. All of the fish went back again today.

I use a dip stick to draw the orange line of plastic in the belly section of the mold, hand pour the belly color using a modified teaspoon, then pump the back color. The eys go on and then a top coat of clear thats been thinned down with softener finishes the bait.

**kgalla02** · 07-06-2012, 12:57 PM

Hey, those look good ... the plastics I have the most luck with around my home waters all have a small spot of orange or red on the belly/tail like you got there. PM me if you're taking orders,

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**Fatman** · 07-06-2012, 01:02 PM

Nice looking bait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**snake River** · 07-06-2012, 02:56 PM

I will take 1000 of those they are awesome looking you did a good job.

**jaxsprat** · 07-06-2012, 05:37 PM

You should catch a lot of bass also on those as the orange belly with either green or lite blue back is a sure thing for bass on one of my favorite lakes. If I have kids out and they want to fish for some bass I have several casting baits that I have put orange tape on belly wow do they catch fish, kids have a ball.

**shipahoy41** · 07-06-2012, 06:10 PM

Very very nice work. I may try and make me a few.

**no1son** · 07-06-2012, 06:12 PM

I have noticed over the years that crappies very often hang around active sunfish spawning beds and will be there as long as the beds keep pumping out the fry. There used to "flats" (tiny same year bluegill fry) available in Iowa for ice fishing, too. This is a natural the way it looks to me. The size is also perfect. That size has become my first offering this summer.

I would probably have done some after dark fishing, too, as hot as the days have been, but my favorite park lakes close at 10:00 pm as does any convenient parking. One minute after they write tickets and then may or may not clear the docks as well. Still all our better crappies, or at least most of them, have been coming very nearly complete dark. It definitely pays to wait out the "witching hour". That was true last evening, too, although the other side was still around; my last crappie of the evening didn't make 5".

You aren't kidding about how well that plastic stands up to catching fish either. We get a whole lot of sunny nibble on the tails. That is murder on most plastic tails, but your plastics stand up as well as any thing I have seen.

Keep up the good work, if I can shake loose a few pennies, I intend to get a few of those in the picture, if you are offering them for sale. Those last I got from you just won't die, however... Some of them have stood up to easily three or four dozen bluegills.

**crappiefarmer** · 07-06-2012, 07:09 PM

They look Awesome CTom. Too hot here right now to try and plastics but it sure makes me want to get out in the heat and do it anyway.CF

**short grub** · 07-07-2012, 06:40 AM

CTom those look great

that color will tear them up around here I will take 250 of them if you want to sell any

again great bait sir

thank you

**CTom** · 07-07-2012, 08:42 AM

Short Grub, you have a pm.

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