Micro glitter and nano frys

The weather shaped up nice today and I could be in the garage and play without freezing my butt off. I've got a bunch of glitter.... very, very fine micro glitter that is a CS product sold by Do-It. This is not shown on their plastic's components page but rather along side of the vinyl jig paint. It comes in 1 ounce bottles. I've been chomping at the bit to see how well this glitter will work in a small bait and I now have my answer.

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These are three color baits with the belly section clear at the bottom and then the pink/red glitter shot thru with a plate. The blue/blue glitter finishes the top section as a final shot. The pink plastic is just a very thin hot pink with some rose hi lite added along with the glitter. The blue plastic has a very small amount of midnight blue colorant in it along with the glitter and hi lite. The clear is actually a very weak silver pearl with some .015 black and silver micro glitter in it but not enough to be super apparent. If you look at the top one, the one on the right and the bottom bait you can see the clear in there under the pink.

With these plastic colors the red eyes make the bait look like they are madder than heck. The glitter though is a great product and does things inside the bait that conventional glitters made for plastic can't or don't. The smallest standard glitter for plastic is .008 while this glitter is 1/2 of that size.

They look great,i mean great

very nice

I keep looking for the like button. Good looking baits.


Bobo

Those are some real go to colors, great job.

Very nice looking baits

Thanks guys. I think I need new glasses for working on these tiny critters.

Really nice micro management!

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Originally Posted by CTom

The weather shaped up nice today and I could be in the garage and play without freezing my butt off. I've got a bunch of glitter.... very, very fine micro glitter that is a CS product sold by Do-It. This is not shown on their plastic's components page but rather along side of the vinyl jig paint. It comes in 1 ounce bottles. I've been chomping at the bit to see how well this glitter will work in a small bait and I now have my answer.

http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/IMG_0262.jpg

These are three color baits with the belly section clear at the bottom and then the pink/red glitter shot thru with a plate. The blue/blue glitter finishes the top section as a final shot. The pink plastic is just a very thin hot pink with some rose hi lite added along with the glitter. The blue plastic has a very small amount of midnight blue colorant in it along with the glitter and hi lite. The clear is actually a very weak silver pearl with some .015 black and silver micro glitter in it but not enough to be super apparent. If you look at the top one, the one on the right and the bottom bait you can see the clear in there under the pink.

With these plastic colors the red eyes make the bait look like they are madder than heck. The glitter though is a great product and does things inside the bait that conventional glitters made for plastic can't or don't. The smallest standard glitter for plastic is .008 while this glitter is 1/2 of that size.

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Awesome. I love to use glitter in my soft plastics and teardrop lures also

ctom do those eyeballs improve the catch.

As for eyes, I don't put eyes on jigs and have never seen an instance where eyes helped the bite. One the plastics, like these little guys, I fish these on a plain, un-painted head and there are times when the eyes improve the bite a little but honestly just plain plastic without eyes does me good most of the times. Right now the average water temp here is hovering at about 35 degrees where its open water and 33 degrees under ice. A fish's metabolism slows way down in these water temps and fish tend to slip up to a target and study it a bit before committing to a hit. Eyes certainly have to help orient the fish to the head of the bait when the fish have time to study what they are thinking of eating. Your question Bob, ultimately is answered by saying that I don't speak "fish" and until I do I cannot accurately answer the question.

Most of these baits I show are a one time thing. I hold on to them and when I go into schools to work with kids they sure appreciate the eyes. Boy Scout groups I work with on tackle making always like to get eyes on their baits and having samples like these just plain trips their triggers. I don't need eyes on baits to catch fish but the kids sure like taking their baits home to show off and the eyes just finish a bait like nothing else does.

they sure look good CTom. You really know how to work colors. Great work.CF