Bleeding Colors

[koolwater]

I have a question about colors,  when they say a color bleeds what does that mean?  Does it bleed out of the finished baits?

thanks

[siscojj]

If another bait of a different color lays on top of the bleeding color or is you have a laminate bait it will change the color of the baits, bleeds into the opposite color

[ctom]

Basically a bleeding color should be shot as a single color in a bait and then those baits should be bagged together and kept apart from anything you don't want to ruin. I have a few changeable colors and they bleed. They are some good colors for catching fish though.

[koolwater]

Thanks guys,  just wanted to make sure before I bought some.

Does it get all over your hands when you use them to fish?

[pjmcla]

The bleeding takes place over time.  I hate bleeding colors; But there are some colors that are much better in the bleeding  versions; IE motor oil.  Just keep them completely separated and they are fine.

[ctom]

I've never seen a bleeding colored bait come off on the hands when handling them.

[bassinfool]

I've never seen a bleeding colored bait come off on the hands when handling them.

X2.  As long as you keep them seperated from other colors you'll be fine.  Some colors actually benefit from a small amount of bleeding such as red shad, but that is more of a matter of opinion 

[ctom]

"Some colors actually benefit from a small amount of bleeding...."   Bassinfool

On staff with Culprit I got my hands on some serious good drop-shot worms that walleyes really took a shine too, but they didn't come in chartreuse. I got a wild hair and put a couple transparent chartreuse Mister Twister twister tails in a package of the purple ghost color of the Culprit bait and they bled into the ghost real nice. Culprit was asked to make them in chartreuse but the requests fell on deaf ears so I ordered the ghost and added the Mister Twister number. I still have a couple packages in the tackle closet.

Back in the days of early plastics seeing drawers in tackle boxes stained a half dozen different colors was common place. I heard guys gripe about putting a light colored bunch of plastics in a drawer that was stained a darker color only to find the new plastics a different color a while later. Bleeding at those times was a fact of life and a lot of expensive plugs and other tackle was messed up all because of the plastic bait craze. Even the plastic drawers would melt from being in contact with the plastic and those early rubber skirts on Hula Poppers and bass jigs bit the dust too. I'm certainly happy they got these issues resolved.

[koolwater]

Thanks guys,  I am going to order some now,  I was under the impression my hands would be blue while I was fishing and the bag full of color.  I can live with some bleeding into other baits cause they are for my own personal use and I will probably use them up before it even happens,  hopefully

[bassinfool]

"Some colors actually benefit from a small amount of bleeding...."   Bassinfool

On staff with Culprit I got my hands on some serious good drop-shot worms that walleyes really took a shine too, but they didn't come in chartreuse. I got a wild hair and put a couple transparent chartreuse Mister Twister twister tails in a package of the purple ghost color of the Culprit bait and they bled into the ghost real nice. Culprit was asked to make them in chartreuse but the requests fell on deaf ears so I ordered the ghost and added the Mister Twister number. I still have a couple packages in the tackle closet.

Back in the days of early plastics seeing drawers in tackle boxes stained a half dozen different colors was common place. I heard guys gripe about putting a light colored bunch of plastics in a drawer that was stained a darker color only to find the new plastics a different color a while later. Bleeding at those times was a fact of life and a lot of expensive plugs and other tackle was messed up all because of the plastic bait craze. Even the plastic drawers would melt from being in contact with the plastic and those early rubber skirts on Hula Poppers and bass jigs bit the dust too. I'm certainly happy they got these issues resolved.

Still have a few of the original hula pop-r's in sealed boxes I found after my grandfather passed away.  I remember getting a bunch of old tackle from my grandad growing up and putting it in the little tackle box I started out with and some of them melting the newer plastics in the box