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Soft Plastic Bait Making => New Releases => Topic started by: Jerry V on 12/18/13 15:52 UTC

Title: Couple of New Molds
Post by: Jerry V on 12/18/13 15:52 UTC
We have a bunch of new designs that we have been and are currently working on.  We've reached that point where we have enough "ponies in the stable" that we feel we can begin to cut a pony or two loose on a regular basis.  This particular release is to satisfy something that has been frequently requested.  I would like to introduce to you the 2.5" and 3" K-Chub molds.

TAKE A LOOK


Item # 95260
2.5" K-Chub Mold
6 cavity
$69.50

(http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll161/YankeesWineight/25Kmold.jpg)

(http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll161/YankeesWineight/25KCHUB.jpg)


Item # 95261
3" K-Chub Mold
4 cavity
$59.50

(http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll161/YankeesWineight/3kmold.jpg)

(http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll161/YankeesWineight/3KCHUB.jpg)

If anyone out there is interested in one or more of these molds shoot me a PM, email or phone me 319-984-6055 and we'll get you fixed up.
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: andrewlamberson on 12/18/13 16:01 UTC
Is the dimension as it swims or in the mold?

That 2.5" will be a smallmouth killer!
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: Jerry V on 12/18/13 16:05 UTC
Not unlike the 3.5 that is more of an "as it swims" type measurement.  The baits as they lay in the mold are closer to 2" and 2.5".  They're cute little buggers.
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: ctom on 12/18/13 16:38 UTC
Those smell like walleye. K Grubs are a popular bait up this way during the late fall and again in the spring.
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: Blackhawk19 on 12/18/13 17:33 UTC
2.5 should work work great on crappie
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: Billmo on 12/18/13 18:25 UTC
oh im thinking i might need both for inshore saltwater.. the calico, sandbass, and spottied bay bass will go nuts this sping
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: Blackhawk19 on 12/18/13 18:27 UTC
I meant to ask, is there a lami plate or tail mold in the future of this bait? 
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: Jerry V on 12/18/13 18:55 UTC
Not sure a lami plate is gonna do us much good unless you want to shoot side by side colors...  but it could happen.  A tail mold too if there's enough interest.
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: Jerry V on 12/18/13 19:05 UTC
2.5 should work work great on crappie

I think they're both a good Crappie bait, and the 3" could do double duty as a Walleye or Smallmouth bait as well.  The existing 3.5 is a good Walleye and Smallmouth bait already.  I wouldn't be a bit surprised if a 4" version hatches pretty darn soon...
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: sim on 12/18/13 19:41 UTC
Nice - I just picked up the 3.5" version - so I think I see that 2.5 in the near future.

Any chance of a 5"?

Can you give us any other hints at what might be coming? like a k-tail? maybe? maybe?
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: Justin9j on 12/18/13 19:42 UTC
All these new molds coming out. Good thing I have been busy out in the wrecker making money. Sounds like I will need it.
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: Jerry V on 12/18/13 19:52 UTC
Nice - I just picked up the 3.5" version - so I think I see that 2.5 in the near future.

Any chance of a 5"?

Can you give us any other hints at what might be coming? like a k-tail? maybe? maybe?

Yep there's a "chance" at 5" and Yep there "maybe" K-tail molds in the future.  We'll have to see how it progresses.  Thanks for the input that's what we're gonna need to get it done.
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: TheDreamer on 12/18/13 20:05 UTC
Do-it should let us design a mold during the tour!

#CBBDARMY @CustomBaitsByDrew

Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: Jerry V on 12/18/13 20:09 UTC
Do-it should let us design a mold during the tour!

I'm sure there will be more than one mold designed at the Get Together in Jan..  Maybe we can narrow it down to "a mold" and call it the Custom Baits Forum mold, or "CBF" or something like that...
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: pjmcla on 12/18/13 20:11 UTC
What a great breath of fresh air to see new molds rolling out   :).  Good looking molds.  Keep 'em coming.
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: Jerry V on 12/18/13 20:16 UTC
It took a little longer than any of us expected Paul.  We've overcome a great deal in the last year and all of us at Do-It, like you, are very much looking forward to "keeping 'em coming"  Thank you all for your patience and support.

Jerry
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: Botanophilia on 12/18/13 21:46 UTC
2.5" is on the wish list now.  I was hoping we'd see a smaller k chub.  Can't wait to see what else is coming.
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: sim on 12/18/13 22:17 UTC
Yep there's a "chance" at 5" and Yep there "maybe" K-tail molds in the future.  We'll have to see how it progresses.  Thanks for the input that's what we're gonna need to get it done.

Woo hoo! I really - really - want a k-tail or three.

Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: Lamar on 12/19/13 05:49 UTC
  Nice work ! I think those would work great as trailers for spinnerbaits and buzz baits. I also like seeing that you can make more then just two at a time.
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: biglewers on 12/19/13 06:24 UTC
Awesome.  Man I cant wait for those to hit the site.
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: efishnc on 12/19/13 09:35 UTC
Yep there's a "chance" at 5" and Yep there "maybe" K-tail molds in the future.  We'll have to see how it progresses.  Thanks for the input that's what we're gonna need to get it done.

I was hoping a bigger chub grub would become available to pair with my swim jigs... that bigger body (and tail) is definitely needed for bulking up one of my big bass faves!  Until it comes to pass, I'm still planning on using the mogambo (on the DL, of course) ;)... because that seems to put a few more of the "wide-lips" in the boat for me.
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: TTDuckman on 12/19/13 19:52 UTC
Another vote for a 5" or 5.5" for swimjigs.

Tim
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: sim on 12/20/13 08:50 UTC
another one I'd love to see would be a 2" smoking shad -
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: WALLEYE WACKER on 12/21/13 07:13 UTC
Need to add both to the got to  have list. Mike 8)
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: ctom on 12/21/13 07:33 UTC
... because that seems to put a few more of the "wide-lips" in the boat for me.

Catfish on plastics....cool. :D
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: pjmcla on 12/21/13 07:58 UTC
Ctom -  The Alabama Rig has produced  a fair number of really big flatheads and blues on G'ville & Pickwick.  As has the DD-22 crankbait ( esp. flatheads on the crank ).  We are talking fish 40 lb. and up here. 
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: ctom on 12/21/13 08:12 UTC
In the fall jigging walleyes on the Mississippi we see catfish on everything we've thrown over the years. Trolling stick baits, casting cranks, jigging plastic or hair, and of course bait. Flatties seem to come from deeper runs of main channel areas while the channel cats general make themselves know closer to more turbulent water. I got a flattie six years ago in November that weighed right around 56 pounds....caught, kept for weighing and then trucked right back to the drink. We darned near flipped my Jon boat getting that pig  on a rope. This fish hit a hair jig fished tight to the bottom in 33 feet of water. I hooked up on one that was even larger in the pool above the pool where the 56 came a couple years earlier but it came un-pinned at the boat before we could get any vitals off it.
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: sim on 12/21/13 09:16 UTC
Wife caught a flathead that was 40# on a pig'n'jig - I remember it fondly - she casted out, set the hook and proclaimed -

Something's Got ME!!

Oddest catfish catch I had was a blue off of a baby brush hog - probably 10# class fish, but it was out of a middle of a stump/brush field, so it was fun to drag in.
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: Botanophilia on 12/21/13 09:46 UTC
Never caught a catfish, unless you count bullheads.  Just not many cats around here.  Blues and channels being caught on pretty much any lure doesn't surprise me, they're active predators that will chase down baitfish (or feeder fish in an aquarium).  What does a 60 pound catfish eat? Anything it wants!  So I guess the flatheads don't surprise me either. 
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: efishnc on 12/23/13 17:08 UTC
Catfish on plastics....cool. :D

"Wide-lips" is actually a slang for bass that I hijacked from my Dad, but I do get catfish ("whiskers") on plastics...


 (http://custombaits.com/gallery/906-261113191429.jpeg) 


This was the second biggest (my biggest) of 5 we boated that day while test driving the 4.75" smokin' shad and the 6.5" ringed ribbon tail (both rigged on 3/4oz lead heads), just before freeze up.  When it comes to cold water plastics, I like to go bigger than most because I think the pay off is worth it... heck, I like to go big in warm water too!

Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: ctom on 12/23/13 17:13 UTC
I don't specifically fish for any fish with wide lips. lol Ok.....I have been known to toss some poppers and frogs for a bass now and again and the bass with narrow lips that love cold water have molested some of my crappie baits.
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: efishnc on 12/24/13 09:53 UTC
I don't specifically fish for any fish with wide lips. lol Ok.....I have been known to toss some poppers and frogs for a bass now and again and the bass with narrow lips that love cold water have molested some of my crappie baits.

Smallies will always be my fish of choice with all other things being equal, but I like anything that "stretches the string".  That basically means I'll go after whatever tickles me at the given time of year... and sometimes I might have a day to day itch between having fun (action) or taking on a challenge (size).  The reason I walleyes fish so much in the winter is because I can't cast for bass.  The same mentality applies to ice fishing; I do it because I like to fish, and any fishing is better than no fishing. 
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: Denny Welch on 12/24/13 10:36 UTC
  I do it because I like to fish, and any fishing is better than no fishing.


Ditto
Title: Re: Couple of New Molds
Post by: swbbaits on 12/26/13 20:07 UTC
please please please make a 5 inch k grub :P