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Soft Plastic Bait Making => Color Cook Book => Topic started by: olsarge on 12/14/17 12:15 UTC

Title: Recipes
Post by: olsarge on 12/14/17 12:15 UTC
Okay, I know that lots of folks on this forum make baits commercially and are very protective of their recipes and I don't blame them.  However, with the number of newbies we have recently added to the fold I thought it might be a nice gesture if we each gave 1 recipe and the bait we like to use it on.  I really like to use the 2.25 inch small fry for crappie fishing (especially under a slip bobber in the winter, or vertical jigging).  My most successful color has been a laminate

TOP

4 Ounces plastisol
4 Drops of X2 Blue

BOTTOM

4 Ounces plastisol
30 drops heat stabilizer
1/16 tsp pearl powder
1/4 tsp holo silver glitter (.15)

This has been a great color for me.  How about yours?
Title: Re: Recipes
Post by: ctom on 12/14/17 12:32 UTC
My Bluegill....used in 1.5" Thump-Its

Clear plastic,

equal parts of green, blue, purple and copper glitter, .015 size..... as much as you like in the clear.

a small dab of uv enhancer powder.

I shoot up a pile of solid chartreuse, lop off the tails and use the tails behind the bluegill. Killer color on crappies.
Title: Re: Recipes
Post by: CNickerson78 on 12/14/17 14:02 UTC
Both colors look good for bass fishing as well. I want to try my hand at crappie this year
Title: Re: Recipes
Post by: Muskygary on 12/14/17 14:08 UTC
From fishingskirts.com.   Powder paint B800 Magic Craw.   Be sure and mix in cold plastic before you warm it up. I use about 1 teaspoon per 4 ounces of plastic. Use this in all my crawfish molds. Makes a very good bait! Also use this to make jig trailers.
Title: Re: Recipes
Post by: Muskygary on 12/14/17 14:13 UTC
Got that color number wrong. Correct number is B880. Boss Powder paint under lure making
Title: Re: Recipes
Post by: DF on 12/14/17 14:44 UTC
Here is one I posted a couple years ago  http://custombaits.com/index.php?topic=7350.0   (http://custombaits.com/index.php?topic=7350.0)  it's my favorite for senkos and flukes.
Title: Re: Recipes
Post by: CNickerson78 on 12/14/17 14:49 UTC
Quote from: DF on 12/14/17 14:44 UTC
Here is one I posted a couple years ago  http://custombaits.com/index.php?topic=7350.0   (http://custombaits.com/index.php?topic=7350.0)  it's my favorite for senkos and flukes.
Nice baby bass color. I'll have to try all these colors
Title: Re: Recipes
Post by: TTDuckman on 12/14/17 19:10 UTC
Gary,
Magic craw is one of my favorites. Would happen to have a pic of a a bait using the powder paint as colorant?  Thank you
Title: Re: Recipes
Post by: WALLEYE WACKER on 12/14/17 23:49 UTC
DF THAT IS A BASS KILLER COLOR. Use that color all year.
Title: Re: Recipes
Post by: Muskygary on 12/15/17 05:43 UTC
TTDuckman , I can't post pictures. Sorry, Just never figured it out.
Title: Re: Recipes
Post by: alfredo7zavala on 12/15/17 09:25 UTC
Anyone have a good basic GP receipe using M-F colorants?
Title: Re: Recipes
Post by: TTDuckman on 12/15/17 11:25 UTC
MF has a lot of great colors, but their gp is one that I never really cared for.  I mix equal parts of the 2 spike it Gp s. 
Title: Re: Recipes
Post by: alfredo7zavala on 12/15/17 13:16 UTC
Yeah i was messing around with m-f GP green all morning, can't get it to the shade I like unless I add Black, I'll post a pic soon would like some feedback