Les Young

I ujst got the 2" ba series stinger tail shad mold a couple weeks ago & then also bought a 60 cavity tail mold. Both are outstanding molds & haven't had any problem whatsoever.

You'll definitely like that mold. Josh makes some outstanding molds. His tube molds are great too & everything else i've had from him have been the same way.

I'll have to see if i still have any in the boat & if i do i sure will.

Lurecraft has a 5" curl tail grub that has to be stretched very tight to be a 5 incher that is a great grub. Also do-its 3" essential grub is another great grub thta's very affordable. I use it in sapphire blue on jigs for smallmouth in bright moonlight & they crush it. Very good sturdy bait that holds up well too.

Yep Curt makes good stuff.

check out the 4" MC worm mold from angfling ai. It will probably suit you & one thing about it is it will be a top notch mold for sure like all of the rest of his molds. He also has a 4' paddle tail worm mold too.

Al there are some nice colors in there.

Yes it was.

No doubt Bob will try to do you right.

I would just do a 4 ounce batch & see how many you get out of that & multiply it by 32. If selling baits i personally wouldn't figure remelting the sprue into it because that will be pure profit. Say you get 5 stick baits for every 4 oz. batch X 32 would be 160 baits divided into the cost of a gallon of plastic at 50.00 which is pretty high because it can be bought cheaper. That would be a little over 31 cents a piece plus cost of glitter softener etc. would get you around 40 cents per bait. This is just a rough estimate, but anyway you get the idea. Then the remelted sprue can be used to reduce your cost for those 160 baits you just made by seeing how many you can make out of it which in turn means more profit. You're probably going to get at a minimium another 40 out of the sprue which is atleast 200 baits per gallon & that drops the cost to 25 cents a piece leaving you at $6..25 per 25 pack.

Yes they do. I traded a 4" heart throb hula grub mold for some crappie molds about a month ago only because i wasn't using it. It was like every other mold i have from Josh & it was outstanding. Ain't going wrong with angling ai for sure.

I have a 5" single tale from Lurecraft & it shoots good & makes a grub with quite a bit of action too.

Lurecrafts black grape is a nice color. I started making some big 11” junebug ribbon tail worms with it & they really look nice. Just use it & figure out how many drops per ounce it takes to suit you.

I have a pint bottle with worm oil in it that i oil my injector with. I just remove tip & put a little in & replace tip then pull plunger back & stick tip into pint bottle & squirt back into it. Does a great job of lubricating. You can also take injector apart & put some on rag & drag through tube to clean. I also use the same oil in the pint bottle to add a few drops when bagging baits to lubricate them. After awhile there will be some pieces of different colored plastisol in it from lubricating after evacuating after leftover plastic after injecting & when i get a bunch in it i use all i can of it & then dump the rest in the trash. I buy worm oil by the gallon so a pint isn't much & i've used the same pint for a long time.

Sorry i meant i used it for making skirts that i wanted to flare out when at rest which it did & had great movement.

I've used the floatant material from baitplastics at a 25% ratio for skirts that i wanted to faler out when at rest & it worked great. I also used them in stick worms & they worked great. I did have to add more colorant because it bleaches out the color but that's easy enough to do.

The green based one is 109 & it's a nice color too. Sometimes i add quite a bit of yellow to it & it works real good on a local lake i fish sometimes. Makes an almost glowing color.

Is it not the 733 HD craw from basstacklke? Never mind i see that you found that it is.

I made a bunch of 3/4 ounce night time spinnerbaits with the lurecraft heavy duty frames & put extra number 6 deep cup colorado blades on them & they worked great. Done good slow rolling & worked real good yoyoing them. The smallmouth eventually tore them up too buit it was fun while they were & caught some pigs on them too.

I have a d i y heavy duty press fashioned after the lurecraft press & put a piece of 2x6 under it but think i'll give Leonards idea a try the next time i'm at walmart.

Yep that was pretty slick.

Yep there's not a thing wrong with Ozark Trail baits. Just like any other brand of baits they all have some good ones & they all have some that may not be as good as the next but all brands have some that will catch fish. We use to use a bait that actually got us made fun of by some guys saying we were crappie fishing. Well guess what after winning 1st & big fish the next 6 times straight they didn't make so much fun of us again. I really enjoyed when they asked what we caught them on & laughing when telling them & they thought i was lying to them. A shame it wasn't a big name brand or color anybody thought would catch fish.