Bassinfool
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I don't know of a similar aluminum mold but you could always make a mold of that lure using POP or silicone.
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More than happy to help. Here is a picture of my Dirty Sanchez for reference. Don't have a picture of the Houdini to show you, may have one later tonight though if I have time to pour some stuff up after work.
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Mike, I will get you a recipe for Dirty Sanchez and Houdini possibly later tonight. If not by tonight, I will get them to you tomorrow. I don't have a recipe for bad shad green unfortunately, but the other two I can help you with no problem. If you would like to try for yourself, I will tell you that Dirty Sanchez is a brown green pumpkin and chartreuse/lime green laminate both with black flake. The houdini I make is a brownish watermelon red laminate with a white pearl belly with .040 black flake, .015 gold flake and .015 copper flake. If you look in the thread "Watermelon red flake again" you can find my recipe for watermelon red and go from there.
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I'm not in the shop so I can't give you an exact drop amount but if I remember I use 1/2 cup plastic, 24 drops tomato seed with .040 black square flake. I like to use a little .015 green flake in mine too just to give it a little something extra. I have a customer who likes me to make his tomato seed a lighter shade with the black and green flakes as well as .008 copper flake, he says that is a hell of good color for drop shot in his area but I haven't tried it myself to verify that haha.
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Those look great! I've gotten my sticks to weigh nearly identical to a Gammy but because I use powdered salt they're not nearly as translucent as his are. The bass don't seem to mind though so it works for me haha.
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Some bluegill slick willys I made
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I upload my pics to photobucket, copy them to my clipboard using the IMG tag and then paste them here if that helps you basscandy. The LC watermelon is an awful looking green but when I was first starting out the recipe I posted earlier in the thread is what I came up with to get a watermelon myself and others liked. It only used one drop of that LC watermelon colorant haha. Now I use that as my base recipe and add in a few drops of the LW watermelon 101 and I'm really happy with it. Actually, I've been really happy with all of my LW colorants so far and would highly recommend them to anyone who is curious about trying them out. Plus, Bruce is just a great guy to do business with.
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A laminate I did today with some leftovers. Watermelon red and june bug lizards.
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You can't post something like that without pictures! Get it together mad man! Congrats on the success!
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It's a bass tackle mold, I believe it is the 302.
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Looking good, brother! I have that same mold, it looks amazing in the water. Wait until you start catching fish on them, you'll be even more hooked.
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I use lime green in mine which works out nicely, I also use chartreuse for watermelon chartreuse which is just a brighter watermelon for me.
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I can't get my watermelon red stick baits to be that clear with the amount of salt required to match the fall rate of the senko sadly. I made up some watermelon red for some lizards today though and took some good pictures of it to show.
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It's not the 702 craw.
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The 702 can be tricky sometimes, it took me doing a little experimentation with temp of the plastic, how fast I inject and how long I hold pressure before I figured out how to get a good consistent bait each time.
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The chigger craw and the one from bass tackle differ in the action of the claws. Because of the claw design on the 702 you get a lot of action and it produces a nice little thump thump thump as it comes through the water. The actual Berkley chigger craw doesn't have this same design and is just a flat claw and is more subtle with a thicker, square body. I personally don't see a reason to have both as the 702 is such a fantastic mold but if it is something you would like then by all means purchase it.
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That 720 looks like a chigger craw body with the 702 flappers. I don't have that mold but I do have the 702 and I really like it.
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Bass tackle 702
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I've never seen one with a belly so lightly colored that's pretty neat.
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You're a good man to provide such a thing to all of us, thanks Mantase!
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One drop will do ya with that LC watermelon haha. The Lureworks watermelon 101 I have produces a really nice watermelon bait as well.
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This is a watermelon blue I made in a little better lighting which shows it is more green than brown. Again, just my personal preference and it is a pretty close match to the watermelon Zoom makes.
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See that is just too green for my tastes hah. To each his own though. I have a jalapeno color that is that shade of green that has red and copper flake in it.
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I didn't even think about the amount being added that could be the problem. That is very true, too much red would definitely throw off the color making it appear a darker brown than normal.
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Lure craft flake is really good quality. I haven't had any problems with folding or bleeding from any of the flakes I have ordered from them and I add all of my flake after heating.
