In another thread and at other times I have mentioned the color chameleon. Its the colorant that has the name. Its also known as brown-grape. The color itself is a nice one in the hand, and when its in the water it moves from the pinkish-purple color to a transparent brownish color fairly fast as it drops in the column. This batch was 4 ounces of Essential with 25 drops of the M-F brown-grape added. Spike-It also has the same colorant. The color is listed as a bleeder in the M-F chart but I have never had an issue with it bleeding either from a tail color or into other baits.
I like it best cooked up with some blue and purple glitters, equal parts and I also add uv enhancer to it. In this picture the final color has an incredible amount of surface reflection and as long as the water I am fishing has a reasonable degree of clarity this is a great color. Its not too hot in heavily silted or dirty water. The color shown here was hot yesterday for a while when some breaks in the clouds let the sun shine for a few minutes. When the clouds covered the sun the color cooled off.
The tail color is done in Do-It's Chartreuse X2 colorant. I add enough colorant to the volume of plastic I am batching until I get a strong color. Then I add a couple drops X2 fluorescent green to that along with uv enhancer and a ball of BLUE hi lite powder. This picture was taken this morning with fairly thick cloud cover but you can just see the blue hi lite coming out in the plastic of the two center baits with the tails laying flat. In more direct sunlight the blue can rocket out of the chartreuse color. Of note, I don't make any rendition of fluorescent pink without adding blue or violet hi lite.
