X2 Emerald Green

[ctom]

I got some of this color a while ago and have been toying with it a little. I had some time this morning and seceded to add to the walleye pile with it and in the Super Fry mold.



The belly is just a thinned out bluegill clear color with some blue, green, purple and copper glitter. I added a small chunk of a pearl too. I added these colors to a small bowl of new plastic with stabilizer and when it hit 350 I spoon fed it into the belly section of the mold.

After adding the lam plate and mixing up a so-so strong midnightblue [also X2] with some green and darker blue glitter in 4 ounces of plastic, the mold was re-shot. When opened, I trimmed off the tail sections of the baits and nipped the gate clean. The final color was shot slowly over the belly section.

I made 4 ounces of the Emerald Green adding some stabilizer, light blue glitter and a darker green glitter along with a touch of turquoise hi lites. I warmed this to 360 and shot it.

To see how the bait color appears with different colors of eyes I did three each in green, red, and yellow.

With the big river running relatively clean right now I am thinking that this bait color will contrast beautifully with the water color. Should be a good piece of walleye food.

[DF]

  Very nice! I noticed you often say you added a "chunk" of a color in your recipes, do you mix colors just for that purpose or do you use left over plastic? How do you keep track of the amount you add? Do you write small chunk, large chunk, ect. in your notes, or is the effect subtle enough that it doesn't need to be exact?

[ctom]

While I keep a recipe book for favorite colors using specific amounts of colorant, I also like the mess with colors already cooked but not ready for the scrap heap. When I get a whim to shoot, as in this morning, I'm not looking for specific or exacting colors. Many times I just begin thinking about how colors might turn out if another color is added to it. If I have a partial bowl of a color that was cooked for another use handy I might nip off a piece, or chunk if you will, and add it to another color just to see what the outcome will be. If I use all previously cooked plastics on this discovery mission I don't feel as though I am wasting anything should things take an ill turn. And I don't need to be exact to have something trip my trigger. If I am making plastics to order, I follow a recipe and I don't add anything by the chunk or random piece to twist the color I am making. For me? The sky's the limit and I'm in chunk country.

The pearl that was added and referred to as a "chunk" was about the size of a large marble. I wanted to get just a bit of density to the mostly clear belly plastic, something that light would bounce off of, without making the belly color a real pearl. While the picture shows the belly as being almost translucent, it really is quite transparent and that's what I wanted to hold onto....the transparency. I love for light to move thru all of the colors in a bait and play one against the other. In the hand, this bait's color scheme is a prime example of that.

[Muskygary]

I bet that emerald green would look good over a transparent chartruse belly also!

[ctom]

Oh, yes. How'd you know that that was next on the list?

[Shane70]

you never stop amazing me with your baits. Very nice looking