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Soft Plastic Bait Making => Soft Plastic and Plastic Baits - How To??? => Topic started by: MO QWACK on 01/22/13 21:50 UTC
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For the life of me I can't find a hot pink recipe, I mean a metal melting sizzles water when you fish it hot pink. I tried 50 drop of fluorescent pink lure craft with 2 drops of MF red in one cup but it just isn't hot enough. I'm are wits end and at this point just wasting plastic grrrrr. Can anyone help ???? :D
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You need to get the X2 color. The fluorescent hot pink is a demon color. In 4 ounces of plastic you only need about 8 drops to open your eyes wide. If you head back to the general discussion board here and look in the "nice find yesterday" thread you'll see some pics of a skillet. Inside that skillet are two hot colors, the pink and orange. Both are X2.
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Im with Tom on this one.. I also have the X2 fluoro pink and alittle goes along way..
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I use the "standard" non-X2 Colorants (I do have X2 Motor Oil), and as Mr. PJM has said in the past, count the Fluorescents in 10's, not 1's. I use the Fluorescent Chartreuse in a color I call "Fawnky Chicken" (12 oz.s plastic with 1 Pinch of Red Pearl Powder) that uses 120 drops of non-X2 Fl. Chartreuse. X2 Colorant definitely seems to excel here. Try going to 80 drops, or 100 or 120 drops, and see if that doesn't melt Your monofilament.
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Mo, double your recipe!
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Awesome tips, I think I'm on the right track . Y'all ain't kidding you gotta pour the color to it! I think a 50/50 fl.pink to plastic is about right lol
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I hear you. I just made some pink Wutzits with MF's fluorescent pink, and after probably 20 drops, it definitely isn't retina searing intense. It did make a nice pink, kind of like a pink Rapala X Rap though, so that should get the smallmouths attention.
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two drops of the X2 colorant per ounce will certainly open your eyes with the brighter colors. Add a little more if you would like. Something sort of cool is to shine a black light on some of those fluorescent X2 colors (especially chartreuse) it's kinda like magic... made me rub my eyes and look again.
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I use 160 drops LC hot pink per 8 oz
...Bill
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I use 160 drops LC hot pink per 8 oz
...Bill
Dang thats even more than i use LOL!