Number Of Senkos Per Gallon

[mainbutter]

I know this comes up every now and then so I just wanted to post my own personal results.

Pouring lure craft's aluminum hand pour 2 piece 5'' senko mold, I'm consistently getting 37 per batch using del's formula from his website, which is basically:

1 cup plastic

1/4 cup softener

1/2 cup salt

If it matters, I'm just heating up in a pyrex measuring cup in the microwave, using lurecraft's plastic and softener, and bear's salt.

I have very little extra plastic left in my pyrex at the end of a batch, maybe enough left for 1 worm but it cools too fast to pour out of the pyrex. It's going in the scrap pile for future use.

This means I'm not even breaking the 300 mark per gallon.

I'm making a lot fewer per volume of plastic than I thought I was going to make after reading previous similar posts regarding this topic.

[baileybassman]

are you getting 37 per cup of plastic because if so there is 16 cups per gallon 16X37=592 using my formula of 8oz plastic 2oz ounces softner and 2oz salt i get 20 per cup of mix which gives me about 320 per gallon give or take a few

[Bass-Boys]

my count on that mix is 592 also ...

how are you counting 300 pc.. ??

maybe w/ just the plastic and no aditives you would get 300.

also a lot of the gallon worm counts I read are for 6" worms,, not Senko style,, 5 1/4" senko style worm needs more plastic than a

6" reg. worm. ( much thinner bait )

[BBK]

I get 42 out of that same mold... that mold is from K-molds, its not a lurecraft mold. LC just sells them.

Are you counting your sprews (sp?) too? I cut the sprews off them and get a few more baits.

[mainbutter]

I get 42 out of that same mold... that mold is from K-molds, its not a lurecraft mold. LC just sells them.

Are you counting your sprews (sp?) too? I cut the sprews off them and get a few more baits.

Doh nevermind.

Yeah coming out close to 600.