challenger Posted February 18, 2008 Report Share Posted February 18, 2008 I have been looking for a tequila sunrise recipe Ihave come close . do any of you have a good match to tequila sunrise. thanks:sauced: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flabasspond Posted February 18, 2008 Report Share Posted February 18, 2008 Hello...TS is sometimes a Killer here on the Kissimmee Chain of lakes (FL)...IF...you can find clear water. It is originally a two-tone pour, or inject, as the case may be. I believe this was a color first produced by Culprit about 1980. It may be the one color that looks completely different among all manufacturers...but they all seem to have one thing in common...blue highlight. Heres my "cheater" (one color) recipe....to 8 oz. plastic....25 drops Purple...6 drops bright red...6 drops black grape (indigo).. 4-6 match heads, (yes thats alot) blue highlight (plus one match head added per reheat) this makes a color that is quite chameleon-like...and will look altogether different depending on water clarity, etc. Also the addition of some fine green glitter will sometimes increase the appeal....Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsworms Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 I like the sound of flabasspond's version, but just for giggles, my "cheater" version is actually 2 pours. I used black for the back (very thin strip of black - make it about 1/3 of the cavity). Your second pour would be LC's strawberry red with blue hi-lite. Usually about 2 drops of strawberry per ounce of plastic will work. The full version would be 3 pours: black / blue neon middle / strawberry red belly. That one is time consuming, but I always thought it looked the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
challenger Posted February 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 Thanks Flabasspond I Will Give It A Try . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flabasspond Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 Al is dead-on corrrect on the 2 and 3 pour colors for what I call "California" Tequila Sunrise.LOL but I didnt see that version untill the mid-eighties. While cerain hand pourers have made laminated worms for awhile, I believe Culprit was the first to inject a laminate, and man did they catch fish! The RED SHAD color was their first big winner and I remember driving all the way to Orlando to buy them at "Tim's Tackle Box" this was early 1979. They came packaged with the sprue still attached, eight, I think for $1.59 and they were truely a whole NEW thing! If you didnt get them the day they were delivered you didnt get them. Just a couple of years later, the owner and main designing force, Rodney Dan (sp?) tragically died in a tournament on Lake Kissimmee, when a freak wave swamped his boat in cold, rough water. He never really got to see his creation get the national attention it recieved later on...the color Tequila Sunrise came later, late in 1980 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete s. Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 bass pond did you ever get in on the red shad culprit that were culls because they were too dark. they were the real killers on the kissimme chain during the spawn. point being did you ever try to duplicate in hand pours. it was like the black over powered the red. they were great baits. any ideas on a formula?(hand pour).........................thanks....pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flabasspond Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Hey Pete...yes, I did, and they were excellent! The culls either way (too dark, and too much color) were top notch. RED SHAD is a very difficult color for me to get, at least a REAL red shad color...perhaps someone else can come to our rescue...Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
