Personally I use very few baits with Hot Pink as a part of their make-up except on a white bait as a tail color. I have had limited success even then with the color combo largely in part due to the color appearing so thin when used on smaller or thinner bait. Last fall I fund and ordered some Methiolate colorant just to see if it held any promise. Used alone I can take it or leave it, HOWEVER, when mixed into some fairly strong X2 Hot ink colorant and a drop of white added along with a liber dose of blue hi lite it makes a really nice tail color that doesn't come off as thin.
In the bottle the Methiolate is more red. When looked at closely in the bottle one can see a pinkish sheen to it and that's what caught me eye. The cup shown here has 4 ounces of plastic with 15 drops of X2 Hot Pink colorant added plus 10 drops of the Methiolate and one of regular Caney Creek white and the hi lite. The less intense white helps just a bit to make this very transparent color to opaque ever so slightly. Seen on the 2" white baits with tail color one can see how the color stands up to the task in spite of the tail parts being super thin. Still transparent, but far from thin. I'm happy. Customer is happy. The Merthiolate really adds depth to the Hot Pink while maintaining the transparency. The we bit of white I'm sure helps somewhat but may be more of a imagined thing. I use it and simply think that as others have done by adding white to opaque a color it helps. The blue hi lite makes a huge difference in the appearance of the hot pink. You can see the blue in every part of the plastic in the cup...the blue brings out the power of the fluorescence in the pink big time. I never make hot pink, or any pink for that matter, without the blue hi lite.
