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Here are a couple pictures of my new swim bait. Three of them are two color (body one color and tail a different color) The other one is two color (whole bait is one side blue and the other side white) I think these are some awesome looking swim baits. They should be good for trolling. They are two inches long. They even have eyes.
definitely hot looking baits you have there very good job deftly like the color that you have on them.
Thanks snake, those colors are very good colors here where I fish. I am also going to make some white and chartreuse, it is also a great color.
Good looking bait I think your right they should make a good trolling bait give me a yell and we will test them out on the big G
Great looking baits. Good job.
Thanks everyone. James, have you been doing any trolling lately. It has just about been way too hot to get out and do anything.
Your swim baits look real good! I have not trolled with any swim baits, going to try them if it ever cools down :) Great color too.
Mid 90's here and the bite is picking up. Heat index of 105 yesterday and will prolly be the same today. Fish are finally starting to find the hedge trees and fishermen are starting to find the fish. Dipping trees is the way to catch the big ones here on Truman.
Nope its been to hot for me plus we have been on the ball field every weekend but fixing to start back in about a month probably going to spend a lot of time down on Pickwick until the end of Oct.If your interested let me know and you can go with me.With all the talk about night fishing I would like to fish a couple nights on guntersville but I need to put the boat in the shop to get the carps adjusted running to rich want hardly plain out and when it does its only wanting to run about 50.I will let you know when I get things going and we will plan a trip.
Question on those swimbaits. Do you pour one color, let it cool, open the mold and split them? Then close the mold leaving half in and pour the second color? If not how do you do it?
Musky, I pour several batches of one solid color until I get a pile of them or until I use the amount of plastic in the cup of that color. I then cut the tails off and remelt the bodies to use all the first color up. I then pour up another color and re-insert the tails and shoot the body. The new plastic will bond to the cool plastic. Some people think it will not, but it has worked fine for me. It is a little time consuming for sure, but I enjoy it. That is, when it is not too hot and I can get out and pour some. The temps have been 95 to 98 with a heat index close to 110. The humidity here is what makes it so bad.
your math of two colors works terrific for me we have 100% no problems like you say it is a little time-consuming but I also really enjoy doing it that way.Quote:
Originally Posted by crappieseeker
I understand how to mix the tails with different bodies; but haven't seen any long way like the third one. Im wondering about doing some acid rain; white and chartreuse by cutting the body and tail longway.
Musky, it is really hard to cut it like you are talking about. It seems you can never get a straight cut and it is too time consuming. I will pm you with details on how to do it the way I do it.
CS with temps like that no wonder you don't have any problems with the bodies sticking to the tails :p:p:p:p Kidding aside nice baits!!!!!!!!!\
Fatman
yeah Fatman it is pretty steamy here thats for sure. I guess anything would stick in this heat ha ha. They do stick in cooler weather though i promise. Thanks for the compliments on the baits.
hey SEEKER......we trolled them swim baits today.......all i have to say is..........................NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!! we trolled them and some bandits today, conditions were horrible, water was 5 foot higer than normal, front came through last night, lots of debris and VERY, VERY muddy, needles to say less than idea conditions, but your swim baits caught crappie!!!! and hybrid stripes.......and a bass......:eek:......them swim well at slow and faster speeds, and wiggle real nice, we long lined em on a jig (ball) head, they worked great, will be out again soon to give em another shot, will let you know, have a great week yall, God bless.
jeepguyjames, thanks for the report on the swim baits. I am glad they worked well for you. Poor ol me I have not even had a chance to wet one yet. As a matter of fact I have not tried any of my baits as of late. I have not crappie fished in a couple months. I knew the swim baits looked like they would be good though, so I am glad you gave the report. Thanks again and when the conditions are better maybe they will catch even more.
Man that's not even right, I don't think I could go that long w/out fishing, but then again I'm an addict. Well I will tell you what I will do, purely out of the kindness of my heart, and not for any selfish reasons, but mearly to help you out, and to take some of the burden off of you, send me any samples you need tested and I, now this is not selfish *LOL* but mearly to help a guy out, will put em to the test, just cause I'm that kinda guy *cough.....that's a line of BS* ha ha. Nah I like them swim baits a lot will be PM-ing you about some here in the future.Quote:
Originally Posted by crappieseeker
jeepguy, well here is my verdict on the situation. I finally was able to break away to get down to the water to check out those baits. I think the stingers will be great during late fall, the winter, and spring. The swim baits had some pretty good action. Like you said, even at slow speed they had action. Not only did the tail wobble, but if you noticed, the body seemed to have a left to right top to bottom action that was seperate from the tail action. It is really hard for me to explain, but you know what I mean. All in all, I think the swim bait is a good one. I appreciate the offer to test things out for me, that was pretty nice of you ha ha. Just let me know what you need in the future.
where did you get the mold in how many cavity is that swim bait.Quote:
Originally Posted by crappieseeker
snake, you know where I got my mold at, the same place we get most of them from. It is the one from jacobs. I think it is a very good little swim bait. I do not fish them much at all but at the right times and conditions I think it will be great.
I wasn't really sure where you got that mold:DI got my 2 color injector today it will take some getting used to it we tried it out tonight it works okay we were shooting white and black which is kind of interesting will try to post some pictures.Quote:
Originally Posted by crappieseeker
hey SEEKER.....we trolled again fri, under MUCH better conditions. pulled cranks, road runners and your swim baits. they produced very well, and 1 swim bait held up the whole day and multiple fish. they caught as many as the roadrunners & cranks. worked very well.
jeepguy, thanks for the report. I am glad they work. Let me know if you need anything else.
Musky did I ever pm you about how to do the colors longways?
No, at least nothing came through.