Belly Recipes

[grayth]

Hi,

Ok I'm getting ready to start trying pouring out a few hand bellies/laminates on some of my baits namely the 5" Wutz -it and have been reading but can't really find decent recipes for the bellies?

Ideas?

My guess would be 4Oz of Plastic with a drop or 2 of white then a 1/8 tsp of Pearl?

But wanted to hear and gather up some different Belly Recipes..
Thanks
Troy

[jmatheny9]

This is just me but to your belly, depending on what you're trying to imitate, I would try to give it a ever so slight tint. Like my local minnows don't have a perfect white belly, it has a sort of greenish brown tint.

Sorry it's not a recipe, I haven't tried making it yet



                   -Jeremiah

[Yves]

found 4 recipes for belly baitfish

5 pearlescent (M-F),
1 white (LC),
5 smoke pearl blue (M-F),
smidge med and small silver holo flake
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4 drops CCM conventional white
4 drops CCM white pearl
a dab of black and blue medium CCM glitters
blue hi lite to taste
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4oz   
1 White,
10 iradescent pearl (M-F),
3 silver pearl (M-F)
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4oz
Pearl to taste


hi lites are great in belly


Here you go

[ctom]

This will get to be an interesting topic since like something else, everyone has an opinion on belly color. lol

On minnow-type baits I really like using a belly color that is closer to transparent than slightly transparent. In my four ounce batches everything added to the clear plastic except stabilizer [lots] and uv enhancer is done with a toothpick or a skewer dipped in the colorant bottle. I won't add white until I know what the color looks like without it. Lots of people like pearl, I like silver pearl [MF product] at about 2 drops/4 ounces to start. If I add glitter to this, its the fire opal Do-It sells in the powder paint section. It comes in 1 ounce bottle but the stuff is potent and a little really does a lot. I place a small amount in a belly cavity of the mold I want to use it in as a test run and then put a drop of whatever color is going to go on top of the belly. When its cool enough to handle I pull that sample and see if anything else needs to go in it. This is when I might make a white adjustment.

Often times the minnows around our area will take on a very subtle yellowish tinge and that is an easy fix with just plain yellow, very, very little of it. It amazing what just a smidge of yellow will do for a belly color.

If you want to opaque the color then of course you can add the color you want the gut to be and then put in a drop of white. In some colors, even a tiny bit of black can bring a whole world of positive change to an almost clear color.

Unless I am stuck on very clear, my next direction in belly color is a thin, semi-transparent  pearl-white.   

[Botanophilia]

I'll use solid white only occasionally for a strong look, usually with a strong color as the back; fluoro orange, blue, black, etc.

If you're going for minnows, silver or silver with a tint is your best bet.  Pearls and hilites are your friend here.  For baby bass, silver tinted green or yellow is probably ideal. 

Frogs, pearl with a yellow tint is my match around here.  Add to that a light amount of smoke scrap or some .040 black flake.

Fry tend to be pretty clear, so bellies should be too, clear with a touch of hilite and some .015 holo silver or some of the micro glitter Tom is fond of.

[MonteSS]

For shiners, shad, and Minnows I prefer clear with heavy .015 Holo silver flake.

For baby bass, trout, etc I will go to just pearl powder in clear plastic.

[grayth]

Thanks guys - I'm going to try that out today and see how it goes