I've been making some walleye baits of late and got to a point where I needed to make an oystershell, a pro blue and couple using chartreuse tail sections. The chartreuse was a no brainer with the X2.
The oystershell seen here is batched at 6 ounces of plastic and uses:
15 drops of stabilizer
4 drops CCM conventional white
4 drops CCM white pearl
a dab of black and blue medium CCM glitters
blue hi lite to taste
The pro blue seen here is also batched at 6 ounces of plastic and uses:
10 drops of stabilizer
10 drops of CCM blue pearl smoke
blue medium CCM glitter
a big wad of blue hi lite
First I ran a dozen shots of chartreuse to trim tail sections from. Then I re-set the tail section in the mold and shot the oystershell. As I shot the oystershell onto the chartreuse I laid the baits out to cool making certain that the bodies stayed straight.
While these were cooling I mixed and shot a few strings of solid pro blue. I made enough of this color to re-heat to continue later.
Next I sliced the oystershell bodies from just ahead of the ttop front of the tail to half way thru the body at the front. I did remove the first body bead fron these so as to assure a good flow when the top color went in. The trimmed sections with the tails went back in the mold, the pro blue was heated to 360-365 and shot in sloooowly, holding a steady pressure on the injector when it stopped for a ten count and then topping the sprue. The result was incredible with absolutely no signs of delamination and the color seperation was very clean, eventhough the pic make not show it.
Now my walleye box is starting to take shape again. The bait is a Jacobs design, but the colors are CCM all the way and as far as I am concerned the other companies just can't hold a candle to quality the CCM offers with their components. Here are the baits....
