Tiderunner Posted May 16 Report Share Posted May 16 Don't know if anyone here watches the " Baitchuckin" videos, but I started making a laminate that he makes, and it actually catches fish. It's called " Moon Juice". One side being a pumpkin watermelon blend, and the other half being clear with blue highlight. I was getting ready to make some more tonight by remelting the leftover pucks which I stored together, and make fresh baits ( 5" stickbaits ). When I took the pucks out, the clear pucked looked burnt, but I hadn't burned it. And I realized the watermelon color had bleed into the clear puck. Being the genius that I am, I checked the last run of stick baits and sure enough they were now totally watermelon color. In all my years of doing this I have had only one other color combo bleed and that was Firetiger. The colorants used were MF, The plastic used was MF. The blue highlight was LureCraft. I may have added some softener. Any idea what would have made the watermelon side bleed into the clear blue highlight side? I have some laminates I made 3 or more years ago that have never bled, yet this combo did. I like this moon juice color, but if the colors run, I'm not gonna make 8 baits just to take with me on an outing. I need to get out to the garage and see if I have some moonjuice left over from last season and see if those bled as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiderunner Posted May 16 Author Report Share Posted May 16 Not a great pic, but this is close to what I was going for except the watermelon bled into the blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McLuvin175 Posted May 16 Report Share Posted May 16 That particular Watermelon from MF must be made with a bleeding pigment or dye. MF usually notes which colors are non-bleed so you might check that color number to verify. My biased recommendation would be Watermelon 101 from LureWorks, beautiful non-bleed watermelon color. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiderunner Posted May 17 Author Report Share Posted May 17 I'll be darned! I will say, after going over all my bottle of watermelon variants and I have a lot, only one had the NB on it. I guess I never noticed because i usually only make all watermelon colored baits. so even if they bled I wouldn't notice. That lureworks 101 may work out for me. I really don't need anything else though, and I hate to order only one thing. I am going to be needing plastic soon, so maybe I'll order the watermelon, and a gallon of their medium soft. I'd still prefer MF, but if I can't get it I have to look at options. MF also has a non bleed watermelon. But again, I don't want to order just one item. The shipping will cost more that the item. Thanks for opening my eyes! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
