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.