Initial glitter purchase

[Haebar]

If you were a beginner and only wanted to spend around $10 on glitter, what colors and sizes would you get? I'm planning on getting it at Lure-Craft.

Thanks,

[Delw]

if you are on the west side... red is a kick butt color, of cource black is great

as far as size if your running big worms .035x.035

dropshotting and finesse .008x.008

the micro fleck is some great stuff as well...

Delw

[Haebar]

What about those micro-strips? Ever use them?

[alsworms]

If your budget is 10 bucks, add silver holograph flake also. Just a touch will give your baits a variety of different hues, depending on the liquid color. I use mostly small & medium flakes (.015 and .035). Black, green, and red are good large flake (.062) colors.

Never tried the string glitter........

Chris

[Haebar]

Chris,

Thanks for the tips! That will be about $10 or pretty close: fine and medium hologram silver flakes, and large black, green and red flakes. Perfect!

I appreciate it!

[alsworms]

I put my foot in my mouth. :oops:

What I meant was if you want large glitter, red, green, and black are good choices. If I'm paying around 10 bucks, here's what I'd get:

small and medium holograph

med. red

med. green

large black

Hope it makes sense this time. I didn't have my coffee before the last post

Chris

[Haebar]

Chris,

Would you get the silver or gold holograph or both?

Thanks,

[alsworms]

The silver is much better because it can be used in just about any color. I don't use much gold holi, but it does look good in watermelon color

[earthworm77]

You can't get it done with $10.00

You need too many colors.

Black

Purple

Red

Green

Gold

Silver

and then purple strand.........too many choices. To few will limit what you can do.

[Haebar]

You're exactly right. I realized that when I went back to the catalog. Looks more like $25-30. But that's fine because I'm cutting back on the number of colors (plastic dyes) I'm getting. Will try mixing up my own combinations with getting the three primary colors and going from there. Will also get pearl white, white, and a few other custom colors.

I'm not really clear on these "highlight" colors... The catalog says they transmit one color on transmission and a different one on refraction. I can't remember ever seeing such a color but maybe I did and didn't realize it. What do you guys think of highlights? How often do you use them?

Thanks,

[alsworms]

OHBOYOHBOYOHBOYOHBOY!!!

Man do I EVER use those hi-lites!!

They are excellent for giving an irridescent look. The possibilities are endless with hi-lites, but here's an example; Take a couple drops of black (smoke) in 4 ounces of plastic, add some black flake and just a touch of blue hi-lite (1/8 teaspoon). The end result is a worm that looks almost like a blue neon when held up to the sunlight. In muddy or stained water, the smoke will be more dominant. Take that same worm and put it in clear water and the blue really shows, giving the worm a nice shad color. Again, this is just a simple hi-lite worm, but very effective. You can have hours of fun when you get into using hi-lites. I don't know how it's done, but it's simply amazing what those hi-lites can do to the plastic.

Chris

[Haebar]

Great! What are your favorite colors for highlights? And do you like M-F or Lurecraft's better?

Thanks,

[alsworms]

I listed my favorite hi-lites in the other post.

As for MF and Lure Craft, my opinion is they are exactly the same when it comes to the hi-lite powders. I do, however, like MF's white pearl much better. Lure Craft's tends to dull with high heat.

Chris

P.S. If you want to make a nice Red Shad color with a single pour, just add red hi-lite to black. It's not as fancy, doesn't look as good, but it's just as effective.