Custom Baits - Forum
Soft Plastic Bait Making => Soft Plastic and Plastic Baits - How To??? => Topic started by: ctom on 01/06/13 19:43 UTC
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Here's another bait, a minnow, done in the re-melt that was shown in the fry's the other day.
(http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss184/crappietomtackle/IMG_0889-1.jpg)
This mold doesn't have the top and belly halves. I have to shoot the belly colors as a whole bait, then slice the belly section off and slip it back in the mold and shoot the top color. If you look closely you can see the seperation between the two colors in a couple of these. Its there in all of them but artificial light sucks for pics sometimes.
These minnows look like they are almost real.
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That's a sweet combo Tom, what mold is that?
Drew
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I think its called a twitchy minnow. I got it a year ago from another source. Its 1.75". Without the eye dip the bait has a rather pointed nose end. I was just playing tonight and made these. The split belly colors are hard to make and when I have some time I'll squirt a few for my box. This is one of the most versatile baits I make and when these things have fish coming to them they really produce. Last spring when I was fishing nothing more than a big hole in the lake ice I used these and hammered some sumo crappies. One of my last boat trip last fall saw these as the killer bait when the water was really cold. My fall dock fishing sees these in use too probably a third of the time.