fisheye56

The process is pretty simple, if you have a injection mold. shoot the top of the mold with the desired color, let set up. use some alcohol to wipe( to clean oils and insure bonding), the cooled plastisol then take straight colorant and a tiny bit of stabilizer mix the two together, then add a little dot of it (I use a tooth pick) at the desired location on the bait close the mold and shoot the bottom color. I like clear no colorant with a little pearl glitter in it. it takes practice but that is what that process will do. hope this helped. then add eyes and dip in clear plastisol . hang till set up ...24 hrs to completely cure and done.

sorry bout that wont happen again

Been playing with shooin cores with these little baits, surprised myself how they came out. Just take a lot of time and patients neither of those do I have! LOL. hope you like them

I use a paint pen I found in an art store

you need to find salt water version of strung saddle hackle they are 6"-8" long and will work for preacher jigs I also use the longest buck tail hairs I can incorporate as well as select craft hair. the flashabou is a personal preference. cabalas bass pro hair line dubbin or Wapsi

I found a new product, that I can incorporate glow powder in my soft plastic . will glow for almost 10 hours

I have become a scavenger , any road kill I have a few plastic bags for tails, fox , coyote, deer. fox is great and you can learn to dye them or not they work fine natural. need to find the jig size and hook size combo get some 210 denier flat waxed thread in black or olive . you can find lots of things at the local hobbie shops

I had a contact at a deer processing cooler and they saved me the prime tails and I hand select the sections of tails that has the longer hairs.

My masters were the shapes I had poured from the original single . They were plastic so shiny they were. I think I may have discovered the reason. The product, they offer different hardnesses in their line of RTV's . Still if I can find a product I could coat the walls I could save the mold?

Alumnite amazing rubber. The pink one

I purchased some rtv at a local hobby store mixed according to instructions and poured over master molds! After cure time and removing. My baits come out dull? Never had this problem before with rtv? A chemical reaction must be happening? Any ideas what to do? Any coatings or acetone cleaning? Am at a loss and 15.00 down the drain? Help please?

Here is my first attempt

I have the purple part down, does anyone know what the green is? Looks emerald? If it is I don't have emerald but I have chartreuse , watermelon, and green hi lites? Think I can get it close?

That is just what I was looking for, don't have the gold or copper metal flake, got to get my hands on some . Thanks....

Anyone able to match or get close to this color?

I forgot some info..the jig head weight is 5/8 of an ounce, 4/0 hook, chicken feathers, buck tail and craft hair for accent, different crystal flashes for scale patterns. I pour my own heads powder coat them add 3-d eyes. the song leader name..Im the song leader at my home church...the preacher jig was invented by a preacher here in Ga long time ago...the jig is 6" long

I did some research on this old jig after a Bass pro used a hand made jig to help him win a tournament this year on lake Chickamauga Tenn. I decided to do my own version!

thanks... will buy a presto pot soon to help the process

I starting a new adventure...will be buying molds to pour a hal fly (type) of jig it has a very small amount of plastic...like a curly tail grub maybe 1/2" long size of a pencil...if I heat my plastic in a microwave I will need to keep the temp. constant in my heat proof measuring cup while I'm injecting...is there a simple way to keep the plastic close to proper temp.?A presto pot? and then when do I add the stabilizer while its in the liquid state? To extend the life of plastic long as I can? I'll have three molds lined up to pour hoping the cooling off time to remove finished product so I can keep pouring...That's removing spru. and finished baits..cleaning injector re-filling injector. Assemble line and repeat...someone got this system down pat? Thanks for any help...

I tie a jig with UV incorperated...in the powder coating the marabou is florescent and the chenille is florescent..is that what you were asking?

Does anyone here have a company they would recomend to buy from?

I have a 2 molds 1 mold is 3" one is 2 3/4" that i use to pour a minnow shape bait...that I use on a 1/16 oz minnow head jig...the problem with the one bait that is it has a more slender shape, and when hooking the jig head on the bait it bunches up at the head...dosen't look natural or clean...I guess what I'm asking is, is it back to the drawing board? do a slightly wider body? I have a feeling that is my problem...for a nose hook on a drop shot hook works great but not on the jig head. just asking thanks for any responces...Fisheye This bait is used for spotted bass and small mouth under a cork....winter time tactic