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selling sometimes is harder to do when the stores don't know what kind of sales to expect. If it's a small store you might want to make up a wholesale buying price and a slightly higher consignment price also how will you pack them? do you have printed labels? or printed sticker labels? that will add value to your product right off from the start. A lot of purchase's in the soft bait industry are based on astehtics(sp) People will pay a lot less for a product that works good compared to one that works good and looks nice. I would also suggest somewhere on the label that you add "not for human consumption", you can never be too careful in this day and age. Good luck with it

They are about 13 cents each on their site and minimum of 500 and that's for the medium ones, didn't check shipping. Your best bet is to search the web for overseas companies. You can usually find them cheaper.

First off I pour all my baits by hand no injections yet. The problem I have is if I am pouring any two piece molds and don't have multiple molds, they tend to heat up very quickly. It was frustrating and a bit painful when you have a large order to fill...so.. what to do? Oven mitt? paper towels? yeah i tried them all, then thought if there was a quicker way to loosen screws and seperate molds it would be ideal.. So here's what i did, and don't flame me for not searching if this has already been discussed. Was at the local wal-mart and was looking at bits for a dremel tool. I noticed they had the stanly heavy plastic squeeze clamps, 1.45 each. I bought three and used them to clamp together some molds. removed the screws, and nut. It works great even when they get super hot, just squeeze and clamp and your mold is together. I can also carry the molds from one part of the shop to the other using the grips. best part is I can stack all the two piece molds and it's really super quick to dump baits from the mold, clamp it together and keep pouring. Just thought I would share what I feel is a great way to pour multiple baits quickly without the hot or burn or gloves

OOOF, be careful what you choose to re-melt, some stuff out there will put off some very noxious fumes thast could probably kill small woodland creatures.. If your willing to pay for shipping I could scrounge up some scrap you could practice with, I have about 40 pounds of it :-)

Thanks everyone for the replies, i got what i needed and at a dam good price

[quote name=nova;60059 To me rolling in salt is just a selling trick because as soon as the bait hits the water' date=' the salt is gone. Well I can tell you from experience, a lot of people who hand pour and "sell" baits do it because when the buyer takes them from the bag, they feel..so so soft, but like you said once it hits the water. I know this because prior to making my own baits, i bought a bunch of hand pours from the likes of e-bay and received just that, tough baits that felt soft till they hit the water now on the other hand, if your sight fishing or bed fishing, salt on the outside of your baits is a nifty trick for fish. I have personally seen bedding bass avoid baits at all costs and then recklessly attack a bait covered in salt time and time again, why? maybe it has something to do with the salt dispersing into the water. smell? taste? who knows, either way, when I am shallow water fishing or the bite is tough and fish are locked into a small strike zone, i always have a bag of baits covered in salt

If i had to choose one, it would be a ozmo by lunker city. It's a creature bait and has had some fantastic results for me, Much as I hate to push those big name brands, you can not go wrong with it, and you can customize it to fit your needs, a very well made bait IMO

mf has a worm oil no scent and a craw garlic and anise, all are very good

LOL, I think it might have something to do we the creative side in people. I know for me my drawing skills are the same that they were in first grade, I still draw stick people and your "basic house with the triangle roof. I think it allows people like me to express some sort of creativity, There is also an extreme satisfaction in making your own baits and catching fish on them and seeing others catch fish too!! So I'll share this also, went to a small local park lake here(more of a pond) it has a fair number of 1-2 lb bass and some bigger ones. I was testing the perch swirl out and casting from the bank to the edge of weedbeds and letting it fall, I immediately picked up 2 bass and had 2 little girls around 11 years old whopping and hollering about the fish. The mom and dad came over and i showed the girls how to hold the bass, they did a fine job, I snapped a few photos and handed them some worms and hooks( they were fishing bobbers) their dad hooked them up and they proceeded to cast outside the weedline. A few casts later one of the girls hooks a small 1 lb bass. she was ecstatic as were her parents who offered to pay for the handful of worms. I handed them a card instead and told them to send me some pictures next time. Well they proceeded to fish and each girl caught a few more fish including a very big crappie, as I was leaving I handed the kids some frogs, sticks and a variety of other baits I was testing, you couldn't beat the smiles off their faces with a stick. so it's rare moments like this that sometimes make all the effort and time spent well worth it. i emailed the pic's to the parents of the kids. fantastic day fishing

HMM maybe it was 3.0 grams, now I have to go check..lol

LOL my wife says the same thing about me, I started too out of frustration with limited color selection at local stores and price, the business end came after fishing them in local and not so local tournaments. I'm not trying to get rich or anything as the market for plastics is a tough one to be in. The great part of selling though is your cost per personal baits becomes even cheaper as you use the money from sales for product. My last order yesterday paid for two new frog molds and 5 gallons of plastic. I am seriously thinking of reselling the popcorn salt to others soon. If I do, I'll send you some to try out

I am simply amazed at how many different things people do in order to make sticks. from flouring salt, mixing with drills, adding this and that. That;s fine if that's what you do and you like it. i'm not trying to put anyone down for their techniques, i just want to undrstand a little more about why they go through all that. I use MF supersoft for all my sticks, (yes tried calhouns and others). I keep 4 ounce bottles of plastic and just hand shake them a bit throw it in a cup ...add salt and color and heat. stir and heat again add flake and pour. With having 7 stick molds now. I waste very little and the baits are really consistent... The key is consistency, I weigh all my sticks to ensure they weigh around 0.03 grams per stick. this is as close in weight as you will get to GY's sticks. texture depends on salt, flake and plastic you use. Mine are as soft if not softer than GY's but have the same fall rate and bit more wiggle. Do not stick with one manufacturer for your supplies of salt, flake and color experiment and find out what suits you best, I have tried em all and have to say I have had good results with many of them and then tried a differnt manufacturer for the same color and come up with even better results. so don't settle until you find what is absoulutely the best for you

Me thinks it might be his salt too. I never have that problem. i only use supersoft, no softner, stabilizer and a great popcorn salt, my biggest problem is either adding too much flake or not enough when developing color combos, but that usually only hap[pens once

never swirled the bubblegum, but yellow is a big seller for me, anything with yellow in it seems to be a favorite with smallie fisherman.

That's my MOTO, show them something different, I have fished enough smaller lakes and places to know that if you fish the same baits over and over you will get bit less and less. I don't believe bass are smart enough to think "hey not again" but I do think they can be conditioned to avoid certain things, either a certain smell,(powerworms) movement(steadily retrieved spinnerbait, wacky rigged senko) or sound (rattles in a rattletrap)...as usual i have no reasoning that would support this besides the fact that lures that produced all the time stopped working after a while. but who knows..the fish don't seem to be reading the same books as me

Yes all hand poured, done with a microwave. Just a matter of having two very hot colors or three :-) then adding drops of one color to another and pouring really fast. It took me a long time to learn how to do this and much plastic, when i first started, i had so mnay that were really inconsistent, but after much trial and error. I have made some really nice ones. best part is fish tear em up when i nose hook them and use it like a swim bait