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The bluegill plastic that tops this has a very, very tiny bit of turquoise colorant in it and I do mean miniscule. There is uv enhancer in there too to help it out. The picture does noting to show what these bait look like in the hand.
Nice!!
nice-looking bait.
Here's a 4" ring worm in the same colors. I did a dozen of these for my walleye bucket.
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Very nice i like that color
again Tom spectacular Dave
CTom
Curiosity question, been studying the chartreuse tail; is this shot onto the body or attached by bonding then clear dipped to the tail ? :dono
billygee :rolleyes:
When I want tails for a particular mold I'll sit and shoot maybe 50 to 60 molds-full of chartreuse baits to use for the tails. I trim the tails off the baits but I trim them leaving about 1/2 of the body still attached. When I want to shoot a few baits using the tails for that mold I simply count out how many I am going to do and then cut the excess body plastic off so the weld is on a fresh cut, not on an old cut. The baits will exude an oil in storage and that oil messes with the welding process and that is why I store the tails a little "long". When I have the tail cut to usable length I slip them back into the mold and then inject the second color. I usually jack up the injection temperature of the second plastic by about 10 degrees, shooting anywhere from 340 to 360 degrees and when the injector rod stops I hold some light pressure for about 8 to 10 seconds. This second color also gets a dose of stabilizer to protect the plastic with the extra heat. The extra heat and the pressure help assure a solid weld. The only time I dip a bait in clear is to seal eyes. I don't like the appearance of a bait that has a partial dip stopped half way thru the body so any that get an eye dip get it to where the tail starts, except for frogs and lizards and those I make the exception to this rule and partial dip them.
When I have time to burn I sit and shoot tail baits, as I call them, using the molds that I use tail colors on. This basically helps me not have to take time to do this when I want to make time count. I often have 12-15 gallon bags of just tail stock for several different molds hanging in my component closet at a time. My most common tail color is the chartreuse but I do the same thing with hot pink and fluorescent orange too, just not to the extent I do chartreuse.