Made my first Roadkill camo baits, need help to lighten

[smallie_seeker]

Well I have been playing around for the past week remelting some old scraps I had to get the process down till I felt comfortable mixing up some new stuff.

So I made some green pumpkin and they came out great.

Then I decided to try my favorite river color, Roadkill camo.

I used the recipe found here on the site.

2 Oz 536

5 drops Green Pumpkin

1 drop watermelon

4 drops black

matchhead worth of copper highlite

It came out pretty close to Mizmo's road kill, but a few shades to dark. I was going to post a picture, but my camera died and I left the charger at work. I tried to add some more watemelon to get some black out and it did not look right. Then I re mixed and tried to add more plastic to lighten and it just got more translucent.

I am trying to get it to look more brown and less black. Can anyone give me a hint on what to try to accomplic what I am going for?

P.S. I wil try to post pictures of them once I get to work tomorrow.

TIA,

smallie

[Delw]

add white to make it more opaque and to less plastic

[GB GONE]

Get rid of the black all together or just ad one drop.

Add a drop or 2 of pumpkinseed to get that brownish color you are looking for.

Jim

[alsworms]

I'm with Jim. No black at all. I use green pumpkin, yellow, and pearl copper.

[mbreuning]

The roadkill i use is 10 drops LC grrenpumkin,5 drops LC watermelon and small amount of copper powder.Add black flake amd done.Best color ever made for smallmouths.Hope this helps

[bassn1]

I used the black to get it to the shade of R I's color. I had to use 4 drops of Dels because it's not as strong as some others. I also used gold hilite.