Thread: New plastic BAIT Texas wiggler.

DRNIP I posted a picture here for you to look at your problem is you're pulling the body completely off of the tale use of razor blade and leave a quarter of an inch or your secondary color to bond to.

I thought about doing it this way but was partial to the tail being one color and the body another. It seems like with new plastic I have no problems. It's when I get into reheated plastic I have a problem. I also notice that some of the bodies don't shoot all the way the more I reheat the plastic. I am just wondering if not using heat stabilizer is jacking with the plastic not being evenly the same temp therefor not shooting or bonding well.

Haven't tried rigging the tail sideways - only other color I've tried is the purple/pearl and caught a few but not as many as the orange. I know I should try more colors but I'm having too much fun with the orange!

Originally Posted by DrNip

I thought about doing it this way but was partial to the tail being one color and the body another. It seems like with new plastic I have no problems. It's when I get into reheated plastic I have a problem. I also notice that some of the bodies don't shoot all the way the more I reheat the plastic. I am just wondering if not using heat stabilizer is jacking with the plastic not being evenly the same temp therefor not shooting or bonding well.

I don't have any problems on reheating plastic don't know what you're doing wrong but you can try heat stabilizer to see what happens try to heat your molds up a little bit before you shoot them sometimes it helps it sounds like you are shooting cold plastic or maybe I should say it's not hot enough sometimes if you shoot into a cold mold the plastic will harden automatically fast we've had problems with some of my molds that are fine detail and we To get them pretty hot.

Originally Posted by Fatman

Haven't tried rigging the tail sideways - only other color I've tried is the purple/pearl and caught a few but not as many as the orange. I know I should try more colors but I'm having too much fun with the orange!

going to try the orange with gold glitter it seems to be doing the trick for you so I'm going to make up a few.

I know it's bugging the heck out of the bait guys but I'm loving the bait!!!!! Gave a couple to some kids so they could fish em this morning.

Originally Posted by Fatman

I know it's bugging the heck out of the bait guys but I'm loving the bait!!!!! Gave a couple to some kids so they could fish em this morning.

all I'm sure it's bugging the heck out of the big boys you know I've been looking at that stupid plastic bait and wondering why so simple of the plastic bait catches fish you know there's two other versions of the same plastic.

Yeah I'm sure I'm making a newbie move somewhere as I've only been shooting plastics for a week! Back to the lab I go to perfect it.