Floating plastic

[squigster]

I recently bought a few new molds for 4" straight tail worms and poured a bunch this weekend. The idea was to create them for dropshotting and shakey head fishing. I have read alot here, and the majority of people are saying that most of the manufacturers plastic floats if you do not put salt in it. I am using Calhoun plastic and I used super soft with no salt and very little flake and my baits sink without a hook. Is this what you guys see with Calhoun plastic? Do other manufacturers plastic float? Do I have to add micro bubbles to get a worm to stand straight up? Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks

[rxfish]

I can only speak for Mf's super soft plastic. All my worms float without adding anything to the plastic. But the size of the hook you use is going to determine how much less the worm is going to float. They make some dart heads that will stand the worm up. You might look into that as well.

[Delw]

calhoun soft plastic it neutral buoyant, meaning its the same weight to just under the weight of water.

Supersoft plastic is more buoyant

med and hard plastic are heavier.

Plastic comes in a liquid form basically as 2 parts a plastisizer and a softener(dinp)

the softener is lighter than water so its buoyant, the plastisizer (aka Hardener) is heavier than water so it sinks.

depending on what mix they are mixed at will mean how the are buoyant.

Calhoun soft does float. I havent seen a dropshot worm sink unesing calhoun soft plastic, or even medium plastic, heavy plastit it sinks.

other things that come into play are the size and shapes of the worms/ surface area.

adding glitter or anything else will make plastic sink.

if you want to add the 3m glass bubbles it only takes a very few, I mean very few. just a 1/4 teaspoon will make it very buoyant in a cup of plastic.