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Soft Plastic Bait Making => Color Cook Book => Topic started by: Billmo on 05/25/12 19:31 UTC

Title: Natural Cricket
Post by: Billmo on 05/25/12 19:31 UTC

Natural Cricket

(http://www.caneycreekmolds.net/gallery/thumb_445-250512183136.jpeg)

http://www.caneycreekmolds.net/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1208

ok so alot of my buddies fish for panfish and use mini jigs tipped with crickets.. So i created a small fry in my own cricket color with natural cricket scent.. The scent used is freeze dried crickets ground into a powder...  I will try them out tomorrow and see if anything wants a cricket snack..   sorry for the crappy pic :-[

40z super soft plastic
15 drops trasparent brown (MF color)
2 drops brown/grape (MF color)
4 drops motor oil (MF color)
1/2 tablespoon cricket powder..

Title: Re: Natural Cricket
Post by: mrex on 05/25/12 19:41 UTC

Looks great! The black specks are the ground up crickets?

Title: Re: Natural Cricket
Post by: Billmo on 05/25/12 19:43 UTC

yes... some of the legs sine they were already flat didnt grind up very well... 

Title: Re: Natural Cricket
Post by: pjmcla on 05/25/12 20:03 UTC

Good looking baits.  Freeze dried Crickets?  From a pet store?  Is there any cricket smell to the baits?  Neat Idea.

Title: Re: Natural Cricket
Post by: ctom on 05/25/12 21:53 UTC

Ground up freeze-dried cricket meal + 340 degree plastic....an olfactory delight I'm sure. lol

I'm hoping you made this concoction outside on a picnic table with a stiff breeze.  I'm still having a hard time imagining what that smelled like, but the idea is a great one.

Title: Re: Natural Cricket
Post by: Billmo on 05/26/12 00:12 UTC

smelled like roasted nuts..  kinda wierd.. smelled good,,, lol      :o :o :o :o :o

Title: Re: Natural Cricket
Post by: mrex on 05/26/12 08:48 UTC

(LOL) How do they taste?