This one has been added to my arsenal now as a "tweak" color and I couldn't be happier. Here you'll see the color "tweaked" into a thin smoke, with blue glitter and with the new purple hi lite from the site.
I've left some of each shot on the trimmed stringer just to show the elegance of the hi lite, which was used very sparingly. You'll note that some of these baits are three color, others two color. The blue/smoke back color is the same in both as is the thin pearl belly color, but with the blach break color in there the baits having it show an entirely different aspect of the blue smoke. Those without the black third color appear definitely lighter and certainly allow more light to move thru the baits. This is a shining example of how light manipulation can be achieved thru the use of another plastic color. In this case the black gets reflected back up thru the smoke blue and creates the illusion of a much darker plastic. From the side, baits with and without the black are nearly identical.
The vibrance of the urple hi lite is seen in this pic too. My 4 ounce batch had a mere, probably even less, match-head sized speck of the purple hi lite added, yet it just jumps out of the plastic here. I used the purple here to try and deepen the blue smoke instead of adding more blue to the whole mix. It worked beatifully.
The partial stringer on the left holds three of the baits with the black middle color while the two color stringer is on the right. Its pretty evident which looks darker.
With the new hi lite line being offered I think people will find that these colors are going to be a real nice addition to their arsenal of additives. As for the X2 Midnight Blue. In for ounces of plastic that I brought to a thin smoke first, I used two toothpick tip dips into the blue to get this color. Its awesome right along with all of the X2 colors.
