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The last but not least is the alloy purity. While we know that everything that's not lead will float that's not 100% accurate. Because of that I never flux in the bottom pour melter. I make sure the fluxing and mixing and such is done before pouring the ingots. The only ingots that will go into my bottom pour are impeccable cleanliness wise. Another thing I do to prevent any temperature reading errors by the rheostat is having the bottom pour plugged to an external PID and the PID probe dipped into the pot. The pot is crancked up to the max and the PID doing the math. Since I started using the PID never had any issue.

I use MF soft sinking, then add softener to the plastisol. With stick baits I prefer them the softer the better. Never had a bait tear when demolding. I get more than one fish from each bait. I can't say I use old baits for the same reasons as yours, but I will keep making them in colors that have been discontinued and have worked for me. I have all types of bait up the wazoo, but I still need to buy one or two that I haven't or can't perfectly duplicate. I agree. I have never seen a flat worm in nature, and I try to make all baits appear as natural as they can be. I like wiggle. I like softness when wacky rigging, as though its something dead or dying. I like the quiver of a stick bait as it sinks. So other than the cost of the mold, is there an advantage in a flat bottom bait over a full round? The only hand pour I still use is an old silicone paddle tail worm that I make to float high in the water. To slip over lilypads and weedtops. The fish never see the flat side. These were deadly! Especially on a cloudy day. I started making these over 30 years ago when Berkley discontinued their floating worm. It was still called a floating worm, but in really was a suspending bait. Then BassPro made something similar,floating lizards too, and there was another bait called a French fry. But none of any of these baits had a flat bottom.