Fish_N_Fool

Hey Guys, I need some help. I'm trying to reinvent a floating mouse topwater bait that I make. I currently make them out of a wine bottle cork shaped down to a mouse like body and I add a weedless hook and some lead to it and I cover all that with soft plastic. Although they are a fish catching machine, they are pretty time consuming to make and the life expectancy is poor at best, as the fish can pretty much destroy one in a few hours of fishing when the bite is on. I want to try to remake this lure using a soft durable foam, but I can find one that the bait wont fill with water and sink after finding for 15 minutes or so. I tried ( Smooth On ) soft foam and not only was it a total failure, plus their customer support was rude and didn't even try to help me. They blamed me for not knowing their product even though you cant find that info anywhere on their site. Plus he said their product are not designed for fishing lures even though they have watched tutorials that they made on how to make fishing lures with their foam products. I will never buy another product from them and I would suggest you shouldn't either. Anyway does anybody know of a pourable soft foam that is closed cell and will not sink?

Does anybody know where to get a good stencil kit at a reasonable price. All I can find they want 10 to 15 bucks per stencil.

Does anyone know of a good way to clean off the sticky residue that builds up on aluminum molds over time without damaging the mold? I have tried soap and water with a steel wool pad or a scotchbright pad, alcohol with a paper towel, gas on a paper towel, scraping with a credit card and gas, and dry steel wool pad. All work to some degree, None of these work without a lot of elbow grease. Dry steel wool pad seems best so far.

I'm looking for 168MM S-Waver blanks. The only place I knew to get them was Avid tackle (who was a flake) and seems to have gone out of business now.

Yes it has poor action when twitched, good quality glide baits work even on a slow steady retrieve.

This is my first ever attempt at making a wood lure. I'm looking for advise on what to do to this bait to get it to work better. It is suppose to be a suspending glide bait. It sinks a little to fast and it has no side to side action when reeled slow. I'm thinking moving the line tie lower on the bait will help. I also plan to remove a little lead from the front of the bait as it pauses head down and sinks a little to fast. The front of the bait currently has a flat front like a lipless crank, would rounding this over and taking the lip off help or hurt it. I used the basic shape of a Salmo slider for a pattern although I have never seen one just a picture of one. I found a drawing of what I think is a Salmo slider pattern, but mine does not have this profile looking at it from the top down. It is shaped more like this as I didn't find this pattern till after I had this made. You guys that have made glide baits before what can I do??? other then pitch it in the trash and start over.

If LFG can make it through a brain tumor lets hope Bear can to.

I found out today he has a brain tumor, and most likely will not be back in business.

We need a list of all companies that sell soft bait making materials other then molds. Like plastisol , glitters, colors, bags, salt all in one place , with ratings so you know who to buy from.

I tried to log into Bearsbaits website to order more plastic last nite and the website was shut down, so I waited to call today to find out the phone # has been disconnected. Did they go out of business????? Does anyone know of another source of Calhoun soft Plastic? I need some ASAP