redneckninji20 Posted August 16, 2016 Report Share Posted August 16, 2016 Well I posted a little under a year ago that I was new here and ordered some items to start making my own plastics. Today I finally dove in and gave it a shot. I can't even remember what type of MF I bought, but the only mold I bought was the 6" BT stick. Also got a 6oz injector and a few colors and glitters. I started with something simple, watermelon seed. How can you screw that up. Lol! The color is ok a little dark but all in all decent bait. I'm not using a thermometer so temp is unknown and I think that may be my issue. I know I did start out with too little of plastic but really getting a lot of bubbles. I got 6 unsalted sticks before I went crazy and added salt. That was a mistake as like I said I got a little crazy with salt. Not paying attention I got a little too much in there. Long story short of my watermelon seed pulled 2 salted sticks and ended up burning the plastic. After letting the previous batch cool enough to pull out of my Pyrex and scrap I decided to go with a new color. After reading a few recipes on here i decided to create a version of junebug. For some reason I like red flake in most of my baits so I added red flake in as well. I did my first injection of my junebug and actually got all 4 in one shot. But the color was a little transparent but I will still use them. Added more color and tried again. The second injection didn't go as well. Bubbles on bubbles. The bottom bait turned out but the other three looked like I was making 6" tubes. All in all it was interesting, still learning and had a little fun. Happy with what I did end up producing and will hopefully catch a fish or two on em. Oh I did end up pulling a small scale out and doing what I could to weigh them. I weighed a slightly used senko and got .535oz. The two I had salted weighed in at .547oz and no salt .447oz. Not bad id say but time and fish will tell how good they are Once I figure out how to get some pics here I'll post em up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark poulson Posted August 17, 2016 Report Share Posted August 17, 2016 I use a 2/1 plastic to salt and/or glass bead media to get really close to the original senko. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redneckninji20 Posted August 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 I tried with salt and that just didn't work out at all. All the salt settled. I'm thinking maybe the salt is fine enough and I'm way too lazy to do anything to make it into a powder 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark poulson Posted August 19, 2016 Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 Powdering salt will make your color murky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redneckninji20 Posted August 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 (edited) I just realized somehow this posted twice. I'm going to delete this one if I can or a mod can. Updates are on the other post. I haven't been able to test the baits yet on the lake but if they work good and catch fish without salt I probably won't ever worry about salt Edited August 19, 2016 by redneckninji20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
