How many of you guys our steelmaking plastics I don't see too many guys on here anymore .
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How many of you guys our steelmaking plastics I don't see too many guys on here anymore .
I've got so many that I don't shoot them much anymore but still do a few favorites when I get low on themAttachment 465885Attachment 465888
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Yeah I imagine it doesn’t take to terribly long before you have way more than you could possibly ever fish.
You would be surprised at the scratch that we throw away in the garbage .Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperDave336
Might could sell cheaply. Or could even donate to organizations or kids.
Dave, if you have organizations or kid groups or other club events or even tournaments that you know you would like a donation please let me knowQuote:
Originally Posted by SuperDave336
Bob, find a Cast for Kids event near you. They would love to have them. Homepage | CAST for Kids Foundation
I own around 30 molds and pour for myself. A gallon of plastisol makes 3k 2inch baits. I still pour but I am busting at the seams with baits. Having said this I poured some 1.5 inch baits on yesterday.
I am thinking about pouring my own but with some great folks on here that pour I can’t see it being financially advantageous. JM2c
Bob i still pour my own but have got a huge stockpile of both crappie & bass baits. You wouldn't believe what i took out of the main storage yesterday to take my boat to my mechanic. I sat it on the shelf & the walls in my garage are still hanging full. :Rofl I will however keep making some big 11" ribbon tail worms that i use all summer for bass at night.
I used to pour plastics 10 years ago, i stopped because there was so many good people who could do it for a reasonable price. 100 crappie plastics of one color will last me a couple years at least, no sense in owning $1500 worth of equipment to sit and collect dust while i use $50 worth of plastics a year. Now i just pick a guy that does good work and place an order for what i need, haven't been disappointed yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie
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I down sized house back in 2017 and in doing so went from 4 bed with study and 3 car to just 3 bed and 2 car. In doing so I really don’t have anywhere to pour anymore. I’ve tried but really hard to as I don’t have the space. I mostly just make jigheads and hand ties now but even at that it is hard to with space I have. I’ll get back into it one day just not now. I do know a lot of people have migrated to Facebook groups and do less forums.
Where I live now I didn’t have any space to do my plastics the garage whisker full of power tools, and other stuff that we have to have to do work around the place so I went out and bought a shed for about 10,000 may be a little bit more than that and then I had to wire it and I put a ceiling with overhead space in it also and then a sheet rocked it myself so I got done with the building I probably had about another 4 to 5000 into it I’m not saying that everybody can do that I’m just saying that if you need space you can go get all those little buildings.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrNip
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Originally Posted by snake River
I have 12x16 woodworking shop in the backyard (another one of many hobbies). It is chalked full of tools and it's been around 3 years since I have built anything. I have thought about carving out a little space for my bait making adventures but since I do not sell them I have no idea how often I would use it.
My building is a 12 x 8 not nearly enough room it’s pretty jampacked as you could see in the pictures but we seem to manage to get by and I really enjoy it. It’s a place to go and relax. I even put a TV in mine and I get Roker.
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That’s awesome Bob. Wish I had a man cave…lol. I can’t do another building without having trees cut and they want an arm and leg to cut them.
Oh, I know all about the trees. We cut down four trees cost us 1500 and I still like to cut down a lot more but can’t afford it.Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperDave336
I forgot to mention I downsized yards from 1.25 acres to can mow my new yard in 30 minutes. Lol. Seriously my backyard is so small you couldn’t fit a shed in it without it touching the fence and house. I hate my backyard. Looking at getting some property one day and build a shop to store boat and make bait. Then eventually build a house on it. Somewhere close to a lake with great crappie fishing.
Hey Doc, move down to Hemphill Texas Toledo band is waiting for you I would’ve loved to had a shop building 20 x 20 or 40 x 40 so I can fill that up.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrNip
Still pouring for myself but family and work obligations have really diminished my time to log in to forums like I used to. Have not purchased any bait making supplies this year so just not cranking them out like i used to.
I hand pour everything... Small 2 inch baits are hard to pour, but it works for my needs.Not the prettiest but they work and cost is low.Attachment 466545
AS long as they work that's all that matters. Don't have to be perfect. Heck zoom has a lot of flashing on their baits & they work fine.
Like Bob, I also have far too many molds and gallons of plastic sitting around not to mention hundreds of soft plastic lures in plastic bags hanging on hooks. When it comes to lures, my thing is making new shapes and actions using any lures that have parts I can connect with a candle flame and soldering iron to smooth the seam. example:
Sassy Shad body/ claw tail has caught everything! In the second photo a stick tail was added to a grub body.
I just love what you do with the different stuff that you have. It’s interesting to see what you come up with. Yes we have a few thousand of them hanging around and adding to my collection because I making up different color combinations to post on my website, but they go out the door pretty fast, especially my new one cold Hinkle bug Which we will be coming out with the inch and a half soon the 2 inches doing really goodQuote:
Originally Posted by Spoonminnow
Bob. after looking at all the lures you sell on your site, I can think of 50 new hybrids I could make from the excellent shape (action) and color selection! Any one of those lures would be all I'd need to catch fish - and I'm not just talk'n pan fish!
The thing about lure craft is that fish respond to many designs but ignore many others. I would be bored catching fish on just a few shapes/actions and like to believe the one I just caught fish with was a great choice even though many others would have caught that fish. Some lures, like on your site, IMO do better when the bite is tough, iwth others not as good and it's because on one reason: the best finesse action at the absolute slowest presentation.
Perfect example: Yesterday the bite was tough! The water level had risen due to a recent torential rain and fish weren't in the same areas than the last time I fished. A bright post-front sunny sky added to fish inactivity.
Curl tails didn't cut it so I went to various straight tails and caught 18 fish: bass, crappies, yellow and white perch and a sunfish. A 1/24 oz jig did bettter than a 1/16 oz. whcih gives you an idea of the slower retrieve it allowed, plus a chance to hook a fish on the second cast after missing it on the first.
Presentation matters as much as the lures cast on some days!!! Tail action and lure size can make all the difference.
Probably, you would have a heart attack if you seen what I threw in the garbage not to mention the scrap plastic I threw away. I figured we throwaway just in plastic about 15 to 20 gallons every year . you were correct on the tail action in sizeQuote:
Originally Posted by Spoonminnow
Make em everyday. It’s an addiction
Anyone have any crappie molds they want to trade or sell?
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just got inside from throwing a bunch of these together for a buddy actually
You know you have it bad when you can look at a crappie mold and know he made it 95% of time.
New soft plastic shapes & actions are my goal. I have many al. molds but use very few lures poured from them. As I've posted before, hybrid/modified lures that catch fish is an exciting obsession and a never ending search for lures that make fish respond. Even shortening a lure can make all the difference between catching a few fish to hooking a bunch.
The spike tails shown are a combination of injection poured tails melted on to grub bodies with curl tails removed. The spike tail lures shown below work great when the bite is easy but not so much when fish only go after something smaller.
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Recently, small shallow fish have been nipping the tails all the way back to the boat, not commiting to getting the lure in deep enough. So, I shortened the tail by 1/4" and caught yellow and white perch that were nipping the tail as well as crappie, small bass and sunfish.
Other mods worked good that day and the day before totaling over 100 fish. Of course finding fish is #1 - casting lures they will strike #2. Light jigs are my usual weights to get lures down to fish; working those lures right, #3.