Bluegill Color

[etterz21]

Looking for a good bluegill or bold blue color, Any sugestions?

[ctom]

For bluegill I start with 6 ounces of plastic and add like 30 drops of stabilizer and mix well. Then I add equal parts of green, copper, and blue glitter plus double the single color amount of purple. Just a smidge of blue hi lite goes in and that's it.

I reheat a lot so that's the reason for the heat stabilizer. If you're doing a single cook and shoot it you could eliminate the stabilizer IF you heat slowly and keep the temps down to 330-340....all that glitter really changes the way the plastic heats in something this clear.

I'm using Caney's soft formula plastic and adding softener. I am also shooting crappie and sunfish sized plastics.

[kipbass]

For a stick bait I use
4oz plastic
1-3 drops of black...a light to medium smoke
.035 black glitter to taste..i use 1/8 tsp
.035 blue glitter to taste....1/8 tsp
.035 gold ...less than 1/8 tsp

[Justin9j]

For a stick bait I use
4oz plastic
1-3 drops of black...a light to medium smoke
.035 black glitter to taste..i use 1/8 tsp
.035 blue glitter to taste....1/8 tsp
.035 gold ...less than 1/8 tsp

X2.

[MonteSS]

x3. That is pretty much the industry standard. Doesn look much like a blue gill to me but catches fish. I add a little orange glitter.

I also make what I call "Natural Sunfish".

1 cup
12 LC amber brown
1/4 035 brown
1/4 035 gold
1/4 035 orange
1/4 035 purple

...Bill

[Justin9j]

Bill that sounds like a great color. Think I'll pour that at lunch today.

[kipbass]

might make a toad in blue gill and fish it weighted. When its pulled fast, it swims on its side. Should look like a beam.

[firetiger]

I'd like to see some pictures of the colors if you guys pour them.

[MonteSS]

Here are a couple

Green pumpkin bluegill
Natural Sunfish


standard blugill with violet hilte (BG here have a beautiful purple sheen to them)


Standard smoke BG (no hikite)


....Bill

[bribass]

wow the second pic to the bottom is an AWESOME color bill nice job!

[firetiger]

All varieties are nice.  Great job!

[MonteSS]

wow the second pic to the bottom is an AWESOME color bill nice job!

Thanks, but I lied. That is actually blue hilite not violet.

...Bill

[ctom]

Here are a couple examples of the bluegill color I do in the Thumper Fry.



The top color has a little bit of turqoise hi lites added while the lower two are shot in clear with ever so little violet hi lites added.

I slipped out to a local flood control reservoir last night for about a half hour...all I could stand for the skeeters.....and tossed this plastic. I had to work thru some colors but ended up with a bluegill/chartreuse tail on the plain leadhead jig and took crappies, sunfish and a nice lm bass. Man, I paid in blood for those fish. lol.

[ghostbaits]

Couple of bluegill swims I did for some pros up on Champlain for this coming week....


3.5" Swim Shad


3" Paddle Tail minnow

Jim

[kipbass]

Ghost is such a show boater! LoL