Les Young

Tiderunner, believe me when i say there sure ain't no shortage of colorant here either.

I keep all left over colors separated by color in left over folgers cans under my bench. If colorant is needed i can add it to lighten or darken the basic colors with. There are some off the wall colors & colors i personally don't use much that i let a buddys son use to get whatever colors he wants if different than the usual. I will add small amounts in sometimes if the flake in the leftover won't effect the color i'm making to start with. I have thrown a bunch of left over that was from the bottom of the pyrex cups away a few times. Don't think i will again though.

Yep Mike i'd already planned on adding them to my ned rig baits. Thanks

Was thinking & wondered how many different lures you guys attach skirts to? I'm sure i'll be trying them on beavers, small worms, craws etc. The grub part of the mold will definitely get a lot of use, but i'm pretty sure the skirt mold will get a lot more use this summer with the experimenting i'll be doing. Them old smallmouth won't know what hit them or i mean they've hit until it's to late.

Looks like this sickness has hit me again. I justordered the angling ai 4" heart throb grub mold & the 3.5 skirt mold. Looks like the smallmouth will be eating hula grubs & anythoing else i can attach the skirt to this summer at night.

Pm sent Like i said it is cheap.

That's what's so great about tackleunderground. Somebody always has the answer. That's a good idea Anglingarcher.

You could just do a single dip for thickness, but if you had a dual injector you could laminate them to get the results like in the picture. I have a 4 ounce ukranian dual injector i don't use since i bought my basstackle twinjector i'd sale you cheap or trade for other molds etc. to be able to do the laminates with.

I definitely understand the financial part as most of us do because we've sunk a lot of money into this hobby. The shoot & slice tube mold Bob has at cnc molds & stuff is $99.00 & the angling ai molds aren't much higher. Depending on outer wall size wanted you can round off the ends on some 1/4, 5/16 or 3/8" bolts & dip them. Bohon who use to be a member here, but sadly passed away was a tube dipping wizard & made L brackets out of coat hanger wire for his dipping rods & dipped them horizontally instead of vertically to keep from having to use so much plastic. If you know someone that if you yourself don't you could have them drill out the ends of your bolts & insert & braze the coat hanger wires inside the holes to be able to do the same thing. You would be extremely cheap at making them like Bohon was too.

You can hand dip pretty easy or inject the angling a I tube molds & cut tails by hand. I made a beefed up press sort of like lurecraft sales & attached the deluxe tail splitter to it & cut my tails. CMC molds & things also makes a very affordable tube mold, but you have to hand cut them too. I have the angling a I 4” double dipper tube mold & it’s top notch. If I buy another it will either be from angling a I or from Bob at cnc molds & things.

I just spray the baits pretty heavy after bagging with bang crawfish spray. If it's suppose to be a cover scent to hide human smell then it should be the thing because it's some stout stinking stuff.

I've ordered from them a bunch of times. You will not have a problem getting what you ordered. Great company to do business with.

Man Curt i'm glad you got it back. That would be pretty bad if it was lost because i don't think we'd ever get all the recipies back there are here. . Thanks

Yep AnglingAI molds are great. Check out Enforcer bait molds & baitjunkys too. They make top shelf molds too.

I usually clamp on all 4 corners. I’ve got some molds that seem easier to get flashing on than others so I clamp all 4 corners & then put one on each side of the injection port. I use the plastic spring clamps from Walmart so it only takes a few seconds to apply them anyway so no big deal.

Mark i've been looking for info on the medium/hard. How do you like it? I'd be using it for most everything & hadn't found anybody that was using it. Thanks

Man sorry to hear that, but the way people are ignoring our governors executive order to not gather into groups they probably will here too before it's over. Idiots are holding some pretty good sized tournaments even though the governor has specifically said no tournaments.

Yep me too Mark.

I don't have my recipie in front of me, but the ruby red i make has red, yellow & a very small amount of white colorant in it with a some medium red flake & it's very close to zooms. I make 4 ounce batches of it. On the white i'm talking about the very tip of a metal skewer so that it doesn't bleach it out to much. I'll try to remember to get it out of the garage tomorrow if needed. What colors do you have to try to make it with? I use my ruby red jig trailers on a black& red hair jig to catch smallmouth at night & they like it. Especially in the moonlight. I looked on landbigfish & see a couple different chameleon colors. One is a brownish pumpkin looking one & one is a reddish one. Which one are you interested in?

Possibly even use a very minute drop of black like a pin head or so worth to give it a tad of a smoke look & with the blue colorant & load it up with small blue flake/

I’d try just a little pthalo blue colorant & load it up with flake. I believe that will get you extremely close of it looks like it does on my phone screen.

I agree on the 706 craw & Curt at enforcer molds has some very good quality & affordable craw molds too.

There's a thread i started called ukranian injector problem 4 threads down where i tell what authentic handmade said the o ring sizes for the 120 ml/ 4 ouncer takes.