I got to thinking last night while I was dinking with some once-used plastic on 1.75" small fry's that nobody has done any three or split color shots using the thumper mold. At least not that I can recall. SOOOooooooo. After hand pouring the small fry bellies I slipped my thin lam plate in to shoot the black split color. This resulted in my having a stringer of top sections which looked really good for a fit in the belly bottom of the thumper fry. One thought led to another and eventually ended up with me fitting a few black sf tops into those belly cavities on the thumper mold. I actually ended up with the best, tightest fit laying the top sections in the thumper belly section with the tail-end of the top piece forward in the other mold.
This morning a slipped the thin plate back in the sf mold and shot a thin pearl/glitter belly color. I trimmed off the resulting top halves and slipped them into the thumper mold as described previously, added a thin plate to the thumper mold and shot the black. When cooled enough to open I pulled the entire stringer from the mold and re-trimmed the new two-color belly pieces of the stringer itself and the tail sections. Each piece went back in the mold as it came out, the mold was then finished with the purple/blue top color. 3 mm eyes are on both baits and a full body cover dip of clear with uv enhancer.
I did the small fry's last night using this same color scheme and both baits are shown here. The purple/blue is a hybrid color crossed between Florida Grape and Blue added to a clear thin pearl that has a bit of blue/purple and green .015 glitters and a pinch each of purple and blue hi lites. Basically every color in these baits are re-melts.
Now that I know these tops fit the bellies of the thumper mold I'll be playing with some more colors, more vivid colors, and try to get a bunch more contrast in this thumper. Its one of my best summer/late fall baits.
