mark poulson
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I guess maybe I have good luck with Solarez because I'm building with Azek PVC trimboard, and it's a hard material to begin with. But I try not to hit docks, rocks, and concrete retaining walls. Hahaha
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When/if I get bit, I'll report back. I'm already looking at 6/0 frog hooks, but I have to figure out how to bend then. Those hooks are stout! -
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I tied a knot in the middle, pulled it into the bait, and that gave it enough resistance so it doesn't slip. I'll check out your bait and let you know.
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Nate, I already know it works mechanically. Now, I need to see if the hooks deploy enough to actually hook a fish.
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Thanks. I will feel better about it when I catch something on it.
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A non-pourer question. If slag from dirty wheel weights causes a problem, does it pay to have a separate pot just to melt down and flux your lead, so you keep the dross away from your pouring pots?
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I just posted the frog that I painted and top coated with Solarez today. Three minutes in the nail box, and it's hard as nails (no pun intended). I'm going to throw it Sat. in 54 degree water with no grass at all. I don't care.
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I just posted a frog that I painted and top coated with Solarez today. Three minutes in the nail box, and it's hard as nails (no pun intended).
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I painted this today with Createx, Folk Art, and Wildlife paints, and top coated with Solarez. I settled on a green bullfrog scheme. I can't wait to fish it over some grass!!! It weighed 14.7 grams unpainted, and 15.1 grams with paint and one dipped top coat.
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I painted this today with Createx, Folk Art, and Wildlife paints, and top coated with Solarez. I settled on a green bullfrog scheme. I can't wait to fish it over some grass!!! It weighed 14.7 grams unpainted, and 15.1 grams with paint and one dipped top coat. -
All I can recommend it a quick dip in clean acetone for just the bill. That will remove the outermost layer of plastic. Any longer that a quick dip, and you might weaken or dissolve too much of the bill. Acetone is the only solvent I fool with for plastics, because it evaporates so fast I can control how much it removes. There may be other solvents that work as well or better, but I haven't tried anything else.
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Here's what I use. I use a nail light box, rotate the lure 180 degrees every 30 seconds, for three minutes, and it comes out hard and ready for fish. http://www.solarez.com/productsnew/gloss.html
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If the yellowing is in the plastic itself, and not just on the surface, you can't remove it.
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Will do.
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Some top coats react with lacquer paint, so do some testing first.
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Keep the ballast in the front section as much as possible, and you'll get a livelier action. Never in the tail if you can help it. That way it will swim level at lower speeds.
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It probably adds transfats!
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I just posted a hard frog bait in the Hard Baits gallery, along with an explanation of how I made it.
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Nathan, I just put in up in the hard baits. You can move it if you want to, but it is definitely a hard bait.
