Bassinfool

Can't recall if I have posted this before or not, but this is my version of Dirty Sanchez or Bull Frog if I were to use it for a frog.

Here are some pictures for you. The top one is watermelon slick willy's, no red flake but you can see how nice of a watermelon color it is. I used these pics because my watermelon red is a little hard to see because it was cloudy outside when I took it. Seedless Watermelon red hand pours Watermelon Red

I use one drop of black with green pumpkin just to get a darker effect without having to go super heavy with the colorant and refer to it as smokey green pumpkin haha.

Here is my recipe for watermelon red which I've had several people say they prefer over zoom and other brands. 1/2 cup of plastic 3 drops Green Pumpkin 1 drop Watermelon 1 drop Natural 4 drops Lime Green .035 black flake .015 red flake All colors are from lurecraft, I have watermelon 101 from lure works but I like this recipe better than the one I came up with using 101 even though it is a good colorant. If you would like that recipe as well let me know and I can go digging for it.

There is a post not to many spots down from yours on the first page titled "Starting Out" with a lot of good advice in it from some of the more experienced guys for someone who is also getting into the hobby. Give that thread a read and do a search through the forum for other threads about getting started as well as reading anything else that peaks your interest. When you're just starting out the best advice I can give you is to just be a sponge and soak up as much knowledge as possible. With this hobby, part of the joy is making your own colors and designs. You'll mess up plenty but the beauty of it is that sometimes those mistakes turn out better than what you were aiming for in the first place. If you can give the people here a budget and an idea of what you're looking to get out of it they can help you out even more.

I forgot to add in green flake in my recipe but oh well. It seems like the bream in my lake have a lot of green in them so it always adds a nice little touch.

It's why we're all here, hope you can come up with a recipe of your own that you like.

Any time, hope they come out well on your end!

Your plastic isn't the only one having the micro bubble issue right now, Junky. The last order of medium/soft pourasol I ordered from Lureworks has a micro bubble issue but doing what you described above more or less fixes it and if I'm making the lures for my own personal use I don't mind if there is a bubble or two here or there as long as it doesn't look like the lure has pot marks all over it I'll fish it! Otherwise, you can always remelt and try again. I'll look into your plastic soon, Junky, but with me back in school and working at the hospital as well my fishing time not to mention my lure making time is looking like it may be pretty limited this year unfortunately.

Most everyone here buys products from a bunch of different suppliers based on what they like or what they're looking for. I have molds, colorants and flakes from several different companies and I have been pretty satisfied with nearly all of them. You can also look in the classifieds section of the forum as members here are constantly buying and selling stuff they no longer use. Welcome to the forum by the way, we're glad to have you and happy to help!

Black Grape 1/2 c. plastic 28 drops Black Grape (LC) 6 drops Purple (LC) 1 drop Black (LC)

Hope these pics show up well, it was hard to get a good picture outside today with the cloud cover using only my cell phone. Anyways, here they are.

Alright, back from the trip and found my exact black grape recipe is 1/2 cup plastic with 28 drops of black grape, 6 drops purple and 1 drop black all those colors are from lure craft. I took some pictures but they're hard to see but I will post them later.

I have two different blue gill colors I make, one light and one dark, the dark being mostly used for swim baits. The light color is 1/2 cup plastic with 1 or 2 drops black and 2 drops of green pumpkin to give it a greenish hue and then you load it up with whatever flake you like. I usually use a lot of .035 and .008 blue flake, a dash of black flake, a dash of orange and a dash of chartreuse. The dark color I use for swim baits is a laminate that I pour which is a dark green pumpkin on top or the back of the swim bait that is loaded with .015 black flake and .008 blue flake with a fair amount of .035 blue flake added in as well. The bottom is a lighter shade of green pumpkin with orange, gold, and a little chartreuse flake but I go pretty light with the flake on the bottom or it gets too overpowering. I've even poured the bottom color just at the throat of the bait and then injected the rest but that is a little bit more tedious and time consuming so I tend to just inject the entire thing.

Just how it is sometimes, but that's part of the fun of this hobby is being able to experiment with your own recipe and create something specifically to your liking.

I'm on vacation so I can't give you the exact recipe but if I remember correctly it is somewhere in the ball park of 30 drops per 1/2 cup of plastic. Don't hold me to that though, I can give you a better answer when I get home in a week!

The lure craft black grape is what I use and if it isn't spot on its really really really close.

Got this new mold in the mail today from a user on the forum and made up a few baits to test it out. These are two of them.

I'm sure there is an overly technical explanation about whether or not the crystaline structure of the salt is able to loosely bond with the chemical structure of the scent and whatever other chemicals are in the salt, but this is a bait making forum afterall and I don't think I will be the one to delve that deep into the mystery! I'm sure someone here has done some experimenting with scenting their salt or who may be inspired to do so based on these comments.

Salt possibly acts as a carrier for the scent inside the bait as opposed to scent just being added to raw plastic. I don't know if there is any science to back that theory up just something I hypothesized as being in the realm of possibility.

Just leave them laying on a table, tray, whatever you have available that is nice and flat and out of the way for several days for them to cure up then you should be able to throw them in a bag no problem.

I would suggest hanging them so the tails stay nice and straight. I made a little rack using some cheap ply wood and wooden dowels. Just drill two holes for the dowel rods far enough apart that you can hang the sprue between the two rods so the bait hangs nice and vertical, put the rods in and keep them there with some wood glue and wa-la, bait hanging rack.

If no one here has a recipe for you then your best option is to go it alone and try each recipe on your own. That is the route I would go anyways so you can get the color exactly how you want it. Most color recipes will follow a linear pattern meaning if you use 4 drops of a color in 1/4 cup of plastic you will use 8 drops of said color in a 1/2 cup. Knowing this I would suggest starting out with 1/4 cup of plastic and counting each and every drop you put in and progressing forward one drop at a time. Catalog everything you do from drops of each colorant, size, shape and color of flake and how much if it you put in until you make a color you like that way you can make that color repeatedly and successfully. I haven't used bass tackle colorants before so I can't help you out with a recipe unfortunately but I do know that my junebug with bears and lure craft colorants requires a lot of colorant to get that deep rich junebug color then you just go crazy with the green flake (I use .015 and .040 green) and a touch of green hi lite to give it a nice shimmer in the water. Good luck! Let us see some results after you try out those colorants, I'm interested to see the results!

Depends on what kind of bait it is. Some I let cure on a table for several days others I hang on a rack and let cure.

Ever heard the old adage "a drop will do ya"? Well in the case of smelly jelly it is especially true. It is by FAR the strongest scent I have ever used. I've never used the paste/jelly only the liquid but, I can tell you it is incredibly strong and because of that strength of smell a small bottle will last you a very, very long time. Whatever you do, don't spill it onto your boat carpet or really any carpet. My friend found that out the hard way with his old skeeter haha.