2.5" shad

Here are a couple baits that came from the same shot using a 2.5" shad mold from Do-It. I hand poured the belly clear and then hand poured the center line colors, one smoke one hot pink. The hot pink was mixed stronger for another use earlier and fit right in with this particular use. The top color then went in to finish the baits. If one thinks about it, if the finish color is one that will work for both bait's color schemes, 12 entirely different baits could be shot at one time. All of these shown came from one injection using purple as the finish color.

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The body of this bait is longer than the shad I have been using lately and the tail section is also longer and whippier.

Outstanding!!!!! They Caught Me, Couldn't Stop Looking.

Those are gorgeous--too pretty to waste on fish!

Look purdy!
Thats my favorite mold. A good tip for that mold: since the tail is so long and thin, use harder plastic than u normally would! Even with hard plastisol that tail dances and doesnt droop. I mixed my own hardness that came in a notch or two softer than a hard plastisol and to me it was perfect for these. Had a lot of reports of over 50 fish on a soft plastic bait.

Very Nice!!!!!!!!

Dig the Pink and Purple - Very Nice!!!

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Dig the Pink and Purple - Very Nice!!!

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I did some larger baits using this bright on bright over a pearl belly this morning and they came out nice too. Here are the three colors I worked with.



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I think they look horrible you should send to me to be field tested .

Nice color

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I like this a lot. Nice job:biggrin

Sweetness! What size are these in the last pic. Guessin its a wally mold. Dont think ive seen it before.

It looks very similar to one of the bass tackle molds.

No idea who made it. I got it on quite a while ago from a private party.

Also very cool. Like to try them on my local lakes in Ohio. Like the apparent flexiblity, might work even better than the garland baby shads and your colors are way better.

These are made using the same color scheme only half of them have a blue back instead of purple. That hot pink lateral line really makes the purple and blue pop when these are in the sun.

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The eye dip has Do-It's answer to uv enhancer. The product they have available for soft plastic use as the plastic cooks is a fine granulated powder that dissolves with the heat and is crystal clear in clear plastic. It makes opaque bait colors glow under a black light so the sun's uv should just about make the baits jump. I have added a very small amount to the dip used here and the product in the cup casts a blue-violet ring around the edge of the cup even when out of direct sunshine. I used less than 1/16 of a teaspoon in 4 ounces of plastic. The belly color also has this product cooked into it.

You should be able to load up on the crappies with those purple ones.

those look really nice.

Oh sooooo pretty, can I buy your scraps??

Lol, Jax.....the colors you see here are re-melts from the scrap pile.

Really nice, the blue/pink should be a catcher.

Killer

This thread is going to make me quit going else where for my soft plastics. You guys are good.