were does everyone get there die or color for doing
baits. ? please need help looking for a lot of colors. thanks for any help doing crappie jigs.
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were does everyone get there die or color for doing
baits. ? please need help looking for a lot of colors. thanks for any help doing crappie jigs.
Do-it Molds - Fishing lure and jig molds has some outstanding colors. www.pouryourownbaits.com has MF colorants. Spike-It™ :: LureWorks™ has multiple colors to choose from. Try these to start.
I only use Do-it X2 colorants. Keep telling myself I need to expand outside X2 but haven't found the need.
Ctom hit them all
Really minnow that X2 product of Do-It is a sure thing for everyday use. MF has a few colors that fit in if you want a changeable color, the brown/grape comes to mind. I call it chameleon. None of the changeable colors can be mixed though so if you want to make those you'll have to order them from pouryourown.
Economy-wise, nothing will be the X2 colorants.
The lureworks colorant is pretty darn potent for economy. Its funny you say that about X2 colorant, I know 3 company's right now buying all the same raw material to bottle (same Manufacturer, Same containers it comes in). I am one of them.
You can push your product, I'll simply recommend the one I have my most experience with. Nobody is breaking arms to get this guy to buy one or the other.
2 reply's to One original poster seems like your the one pushing to me. If I was gonna push a value product, hands down like you say, Its hard to beat Lurecrafts price and quality. Im just defining what your calling hands down..
"Do-it Molds - Fishing lure and jig molds has some outstanding colors. www.pouryourownbaits.com has MF colorants. Spike-It™ :: LureWorks™ has multiple colors to choose from. Try these to start. ".....my first reply to this thread. Where am I showing favorites? This reply was made to "minnow", not to you to get your water warm BJ.
It's not that serious guys.
I use spike it, do it and mf in some colors. They all make good stuff. Haven't tried bj colors yet.
thank you all for the help. I use 2x now but I am or was looking for changing colors.. but thank u all.
Seriously look at Spike-It's site. Chameleon, Mint Brown, Motor oil, Pumpkin Watermelon, and Zombie Blood are all changeable.
M-F also has several unique changeable colours.
My personal preference is honestly for the Lureworks (Spike-It) line, they are quite strong and their parent company is a very large manufacturer/supplier to the Soft Bait industry (not just the hand pour market) So you know the products are solid and consistent.
Anglers do those colors bleed. I have the mint brown and like it but had issue with motor oil bleeding. Love the zombie blood too no bleeding there
Dyes bleed, pigments don't. Spike-It (unlike most) labels all their dyes as such (motor oil std dye, cherry red dye, chartreuse dye etc) If they don't call a colour a dye it won't bleed.
I fail to see the problem with dyes that bleed, they make some of the most vibrant colours out there.
Man my motor bleed into the chartreuse and made one ugly bait lol. I personally stay away from the dyes once I found they bleed. Nothing like having a compartment full of baits that look nice and two weeks later they are all bleed out onto one another. Just my preference.
Its not a problem if the baits are done a single color and are kept in bags separate from the other tackle when stored or in the tackle box. As Arkansas has mentioned, things can go bad in a hurry other-wise.Quote:
Originally Posted by Angler's Choice
Your best bet is to try a few different venders and see what works for you I order from jacobs baits if I need it in a hurry they have fast shipping and then I go threw mf manufacturing for a bigger variety just have to try what works for you
You would figure that once you learn which colours are dye based and that they bleed into other colours that this would be painfully obvious, but hey, what do I know?Quote:
Originally Posted by CTom
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Both of these baits were pulled from inventory meaning they've been sitting packaged, 10 to a retail bag. Both colours use a dye based colour. Top bait uses Spike-It's Chartreuse Dye 107 to make the Chartreuse colour which is a notorious bleeder with a dark purple, the bottom bait uses Cherry Red Dye 120 which is another notorious bleeder with a very dark smoke. The top bait has been in inventory for almost a year (very seasonal bait/colour) and the bottom almost 3 months. They both seem to work well together to me.
All you need to do guys is learn to use these colours and they can be incredible assets to your arsenal of colours.
***note, I do know there are ways to make similar chartreuse colours without a dye, I have several other chartreuse pigments that don't bleed, this is the only way i could get the colour needed to look the way it needed to ;) ***
This right here!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by cutbait
sometimes those ugly Baits will catch a lot of fish don't know if I ever told you guys about making up some jig skirts and I wanted them to be a brownish yellow I mean it was the most horrible color that I've ever seen anyway I threw them in my bag that I usually take out fishing with me and we were fishing in a slew and we were using green and white plastic was not doing anything and I decided to take out that horrible looking brown and yellow well admittedly restarted catching fish don't know what the difference was between the action was about the same the only thing I could think of was that yellow brownish color seem to do the trick so sometimes something ugly works out terrific. just make sure when you are buying colors that they are bleed proof I do use from quite a few different manufacturers all the ones that you guys have mentioned on here I have used basic lay all the manufacturers or companies by either die or pigments and mix them up yourself you can buy pigment from quite a few different companies and mix up your own if you like the pigments that I have bought in the past or 100% pure so a little bit when a long ways basically they take warm oil and mix in the pigments they also do with this with the dye so why not have gone and try some year own mixtures like to see what some of you guys can come up with.Quote:
Originally Posted by arkansasbowhunter
I sent dr. Nip some baits once and he said man they were the best looking tail he had seen and wanted to know how I did them. I told him but he said didn't make sense. He snapped a pic and sent to me and low and behold the baits bled into the tails lol. I still prefer non bleed Colorants but have some of the bleeders.
Lol JW yeah those tails were something else. The body bled into the tail perfectly. I'll have to dig up a pic of it. Needless to say I have found that both orange and pink in X2 colorants bleed or at least orange bleeds into yellow and chartreuse and pink bleeds into white. Also found some chartreuse will bleed into pearl if left long enough.
Okay here is what I'm talking about.
1st pic up is what JW was talking about. No it isn't Cajun Cricket as it says. I just threw the bait on something I was working on tonight. When I received this bait last year it was spectacular! The pumpkin seed went from chartreuse to orangish yellow flawlessly. Later came out to find the chartreuse tail had an orange touching it. Now over the however many months it has been sitting in my garage it has change more and doesn't look as magnificent as it did when I received it.
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2nd pic up is a pink/white I poured. Now before you think I just dumped too much pink into this and that's why it bled this was only 6 drops of pink. I used 10 drops now a days along with blue hi-lite and doesn't bleed unless it's teamed up with white. It takes months to bleed. The pic is somewhere around 8-10 months.
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3rd pic up is a white tail, and I've had clear and pearl tails thrown in a bin with chartreuse. The tails the chartreuse were touching bled greenish. This pic clearly shows the right side greenish compared to the white left side.
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In closing learn your colorants. Some bleed and some don't Use this to your advantage.
Spot on bro nip. Gotta be careful when storing out hard work
I've seen plenty of cross coloring over the years. I keep all of one color scheme or pattern together in a single cell in a plano or a zip lock bag now. Over time I have figured out which non-bleed colors either will bleed a little or will inherit color from another bait color. These are generally made in limited numbers so I don't have to fret over wrecking a pile of nice baits. All of this comes with time and observation.
I believe the OP mentioned wanting changeable colors. Many of these will be bleeders so they won't work well as split colors and should be kept in packages of the same color.