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mark poulson

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  1. The lexan shims made the difference! It glides just line the R2S bait. Now all I need to do is put it in front of some hungry fish!
  2. If you want to use hardener, add it to the plastic before it's heated, and stir it well. If you add it to hot plastic, it won't mix and you'll get lumps. When I want to add hardener to some already cooked, but cold, plastic, I mix the hardener with new plastic in a separate bowl, until it's completely mixed, and then add it to the cold plastic and heat them both together, stirring as soon as the old stuff is soft.
  3. Be sure to add some heat stabilizer when you cook your plastic, so it doesn't yellow when you reheat it. I add 1 tsp for a cup of plastic.
  4. Thanks Barry. I'm just looking for things to do when I can't fish.
  5. Neither am I, but I still catch fish! Hahaha Thanks for the reply, and the photo.
  6. Forgive what might be a dumb question, but can't you use something like high temp silicone to repair an over-ground mold to make it usable again. Or that welding epoxy?
  7. I've found that the Lurepartsonline spinnerbaits with a 5/0 hook are great, and don't roll, even with a Colorado/Indiana blade combination. https://www.lurepartsonline.com/King-Spin-Heads Barlow's also has a good spinnerbait with a 5/0 hook. https://barlowstackle.com/Fish-Shaped-Spinner-Bait-Head--P1506/ I fish 50# braid with a 20# fluoro leader, so setting the hook with a 5/0 isn't a problem.
  8. Two squarebills I repainted. I wanted something for dirtier water. Pearl violet back, flourescent yellow sides, orange belly, black bars over mesh netting. Irridescent turquois face markings. All Createx paints. Rustoleum Gloss 2X Acrylic clear, two coats.
  9. Since Baitjunkys stopped selling plastic, I've been using Bait Plastics PM262-000 Medium/Hard, and have not had any problems with either bubbles or durability.
  10. It sounds like you have to weight a sinking one piece glide bait just like a top water glide bait. The more level it falls, but with the tail slightly lower, the wider the S glide. For my bigger surface gliders, I want the back 2/3s of the bait to be just underwater. Smaller baits, like a Sammy, can hand down more, because they are typically walked instead of gliding.
  11. I wanted this 4" bluegill swimbait to glide, instead of flap, so I super glued a piece of 1/16" lexan to the place in the joint where the two pieces meet, and this is what it looks like. The joint moves just like the R2S glidebait above it. I will take it out for a test swim on Monday, if I don't melt first.
  12. Not so far, but I've only fished it a little. I need to alter the joint gap to get the glide I want. It's 8:30 pm here and it's still 91 degrees. Tomorrow is another day, especially early in the morning when it's only 75! I'm headed for bed. Talk to you tomorrow.
  13. It is slow sink with #4 short shank EWG triple grip hooks, faster sink with #2s. I wanted it to be a glide bait, but it has a much shorter swim cycle, not a big, slow S like I was hoping for. I'll play around with the joint opening to see if I can get the action I want.
  14. Thanks Barry. They are fish catchers.
  15. Dave, It holds up fine on hard baits, as long as you don't leave it in contact with a soft plastic bait for more than 5 minutes. The softener in the plastic will melt the Rustoleum. When I make a bait like a rat that needs a soft plastic tail, I'll coat the area around the hitchhiker attachment with clear nail polish, and it's fine. I make sure the tail doesn't lie next to the bait on the deck,and I remove the tail when I put the bait away. But I have baits that I coated with it that are several years old, and are still fine. I caught a dozen crankbait fish today on a bluegill crank I painted and coated with the Rustoleum. They also make a matte that I use as a final coat when I want less gloss. Two coats of the gloss, five minutes apart, for strength, and then one coat of the matte, to knock down the gloss. For me, it's a cheap, easy topcoat that only needs a day to cure before I fish it. Plus, since I can make it work, it must be idiot proof! Hahaha P.S. Spray it outside and stand up wind. It has some fumes.
  16. I will, but with a fishing line attached. Hahaha Thanks. I painted it so long ago I forget how it swims, and it's sink rate, so I'll be water testing it today.
  17. Since the unmixed stuff seems to be super soft, I'm guessing it's the hardener that settles out of suspension. I am careful to swirl my gallon of med. every time I think of it, even if I'm not pouring. Once it packs at the bottom, it takes serious mixing, like with a drill and mixing tool, to get it back up into suspension.
  18. mark poulson

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    Beautiful! You are an artist.
  19. 12 oz or 16 oz? Does it matter? Hahaha
  20. No clue about how to do it, but that guy's baits are amazing!
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