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Mine came in the mail only a few minutes ago. Ironically I was just mixing up some more new colors to document. Now I'll have to shoot some of these. I can tell you that this is one sweet little mold, maybe 3.25" square, 20 cavities, and just looking at the open mold has me quivering myself. Pics a little later and I'll size them to a dime.
we are looking forward in seeing in this plastic bait we are seriously thinking about ordering two of those molds.
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Sorry for the fuzzy pic, but here are a few of the Ice stingers shown in relation to a dime and a Micro Nuggie, a Minnesota ice staple. Way more action in the stinger's tail....makes the nuggie feel thick and it really isn't.
very nice looking......like the little ones, good work
wow you're pretty fancy with those baby shed stingers that is a awesome coloring job you did they look fantastic.Quote:
Originally Posted by CTom
The Micro Nuggies are a great ice plastic but I bet the Ice Stingers will match them one on one. Very nice looking bait!!
Where can a guy buy these
Where can a guy buy these
Well done. They look great.
The shads are challenging, but the more I do, the better things work out. I have a pretty decent system now for getting the orange throat dot in place, followed by the belly color. I have been increasing the working temp of the plastic about 10 degrees with each step. The throat dot has been right about 335, the belly color gets about three drops of heat stabilizer to 4 oz of colored plastic and run up to 345-350. The top color gets the same amount of stabilizer and is injected at 360 degrees. Done this way each addition seems to weld to the existing color portion in the mold. I haven't had a seperation yet.
About those Stingers. I have been working in and around the plastic tackle industry for 20+ years. I have never, ever seen a more active plastic bait. You cannot hold the tail on this bait steady. Period. And that alone is the trick to triggering winter fish....at least up here where we get ice 30-40 inches thick in the winter. If you shoot plastic and ice fish, this is one mold you will want to get.
My plastic is the super soft from Caney Creek and no hardener has been added. I feel that the combination of the plastic used and the design of this mold makes a bait that will go far. I've only done four colors to show on a couple different sites and my email has been nuts with persons wanting to buy the baits already...including this site. I have had a Nuggie right next to this Stinger in my hand and the nuggie looks like a club compared to the tail action of the stinger.
you're doing a good job keep up the good work you have fantastic looking baits for sure maybe you could teach us old dogs new tricks. I hope to see more posts from you I would like to see what other combinations that you can come up with and incorporate this with other plastic baits.Quote:
Originally Posted by CTom
....."maybe you could teach us old dogs new tricks".....
I just turned 61. 'm try to learn from the pups. lol
Fantastic! You even shortened the body so they don't have to be trimmed to fit a 10 or 12 hook. Those will take fish ice or open water. The shads barely go what an inch and a half? The stingers more like an inch. Just about perfect.
yes and we will be 65 in April we will definitely learn something from those young pups.Quote:
Originally Posted by CTom
Ok Snake....you one-upped me.
Dutch, the overall length is 1", the body portions tapes out at a mighty 1/4". On smalllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll jigs a guy can cut the first half of the body off and end up with enough to stay secure yet. I took them down to the creek behind me and had a field day a for 1/2 hour this morning in open water on crappies and bluegills. I had a rare visit from a half-decent waldo and that ended my one bait fun for the morning. Chartreuse diamond jig [#12] and the blue stinger under a float.
that sounds good I guess were going to have to order some from Jacob baits.Quote:
Originally Posted by CTom
Two upped me, LOL I just turned 63...Quote:
Originally Posted by CTom
CT, we fish just like that on and off again all summer, not just in the winter. These new 10 and 12 tungsten and mooska ice jigs are really something whether under a float, or just jigged on a tight line; sometimes the crappies and the sunnies, too, won't touch anything bigger. You can add in some of the little shad darts and fatboys on those tiny plastics, all the ice jigs that "fish heavy" as we say. The occasional largemouth or walleye that joins the party is an added bonus. They also took a lot of perch for us this fall. You never know what size or species of fish will take these little plastics next. In a recent year my fishing partner and I counted about a dozen and a half species that took our crappie baits with specimens in about a third of them going over line test. On my ultralights the tiny hooks do not fail either, when I have the drags set right. For that matter on 4# test the knot goes first before the hooks do, which is what I balance my drag for anyway.
If this is the same plastic as earlier this year which I think it is IIRC, then it also stands up to a pile of abuse without tearing even on needle like hooks while staying soft and active. Primo baits, often good for well over a hundred panfish each. I counted! Out of 16 in the original sample well over a quarter of them did the Ton and a couple of them well over. These baits have a future. (They definitely have a present, already!)
him it definitely sounds like an outstanding bait anything that resembles a baitfish this good and apparently this is something that they think is say baitfish something that is easy to suck and most likely your area going to catch all kinds of different size fish and you know that most of the panfish love to feed on small baitfish we will eventually take these molds up hope to see you post more pictures.
Hmnn I turn 72 in 10 days so I need you YOUNG FISHERMEN to make me some of these neat Stingers so I can catch me a crappie or two. I'm just to darn old to learn plastic making, even gave up pouring lead cause the arthritis didn't like it but it ain't goin stop me from fishin...............
that is fantastic I hope you have many more years of good fishing ahead you I don't think there's too many young Fellers on here we seem to all of those guys seem to be in our 60s but we need those young Fellers to keep us old guys alive we definitely enjoy seeing new people, board with plastic baits you need anything let me know you can go to my website and take a look.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaxsprat