stein3411 Posted April 6, 2020 Report Share Posted April 6, 2020 Does anybody have a recipe for the Gene Larew electric blue color they would be willing to share? I'm looking for the electric blue color they discontinued, years ago this thing was completely loaded with flake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Young Posted April 6, 2020 Report Share Posted April 6, 2020 (edited) I’d try just a little pthalo blue colorant & load it up with flake. I believe that will get you extremely close of it looks like it does on my phone screen. Edited April 6, 2020 by Les Young 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Young Posted April 7, 2020 Report Share Posted April 7, 2020 Possibly even use a very minute drop of black like a pin head or so worth to give it a tad of a smoke look & with the blue colorant & load it up with small blue flake/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein3411 Posted April 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2020 Thanks Les, I'll give it a try this weekend. I've got lots of time to kill lately with all this craziness. Our state (Washington) has closed all fishing through May 4th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsworms Posted April 7, 2020 Report Share Posted April 7, 2020 14 hours ago, Les Young said: Possibly even use a very minute drop of black like a pin head or so worth to give it a tad of a smoke look & with the blue colorant & load it up with small blue flake/ +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apdriver Posted April 7, 2020 Report Share Posted April 7, 2020 2 hours ago, stein3411 said: Thanks Les, I'll give it a try this weekend. I've got lots of time to kill lately with all this craziness. Our state (Washington) has closed all fishing through May 4th. Well that’s just unamerican! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Young Posted April 8, 2020 Report Share Posted April 8, 2020 11 hours ago, stein3411 said: Thanks Les, I'll give it a try this weekend. I've got lots of time to kill lately with all this craziness. Our state (Washington) has closed all fishing through May 4th. Man sorry to hear that, but the way people are ignoring our governors executive order to not gather into groups they probably will here too before it's over. Idiots are holding some pretty good sized tournaments even though the governor has specifically said no tournaments. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark poulson Posted April 8, 2020 Report Share Posted April 8, 2020 It only takes a few selfish idiots to ruin things for everyone else. In this case, it might also get a lot of people sick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rixon529 Posted April 9, 2020 Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 It's a damn shame, but Covidiots are everywhere... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonteSS Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 Lurecraft Electric blue. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein3411 Posted April 20, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2020 Thanks MonteSS, appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dink Master Posted May 7, 2020 Report Share Posted May 7, 2020 (edited) In the late 70's Electric Blue was a lite purple with a lot of small blue flake Ditto Gator Tail Worm Mann's Augertail Worm Edited May 7, 2020 by Dink Master Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McLuvin175 Posted May 7, 2020 Report Share Posted May 7, 2020 Traditional Electric Blue is Purple loaded with 0.015" Blue Glitter. You'll probably not find that exact shade of purple because it doesn't exist anymore. If you happen to have any of the discontinued Purple 123 from LureWorks thats the color you want. In the alternative if you use 5 drops of Morning Dawn 160 to 4 drops of Violet 193 you will come pretty close. Just keep that 5:4 ratio. Otherwise you'll have to use the purple you have in your inventory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Young Posted May 8, 2020 Report Share Posted May 8, 2020 no doubt the original electric blue has a purple base & loaded up with blue glitter it doesn't look anything like the color the op asked about. I like the older version better myself so thanks for the info Josh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein3411 Posted May 12, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2020 Thanks for the information gentlemen. Yes, the color is purple with small blue flake. Gene Larew's version just had more flake in it than Ditto. I still have some of the Ditto Gator Tail's in that color. I'm guessing that they are about 25+ years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Young Posted May 13, 2020 Report Share Posted May 13, 2020 lol The pic you posted doesn't look anything like purple with blue flake on my monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein3411 Posted May 13, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2020 Sorry, I searched that pic off the net. Thanks for all of your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein3411 Posted May 13, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2020 Washington finally opened fishing on May 5th. I traveled to my lake house and fished 6 days straight. My life is whole again 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Young Posted May 13, 2020 Report Share Posted May 13, 2020 Congratulations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
