Thumpity Thump Thump

[grayth]

Hey well I just had to have the Thump Grub..and so just tried it out today with my version of Purple Smoky Haze



4oz Plastic
1 drop X2 Black
1/8 teaspoon purple flake .15
1/8 silver holo flake .15

touch of violet hi lite
Troy

[jmatheny9]

Beautiful. I really like the tump grub


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[BareKnuckleJigs]

Gray, I heard some Thumpin' so I had to look out the window!  I saw a Candy Purple Cadillac!  KoowEE! 

[grayth]

Lol - ya I'm really liking this bait. Shoots amazingly easy

I'm guessing walleye are gonna love it - come on springtime


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[BareKnuckleJigs]

Yeeaa, and I truly dig that mold.  Every time someone posts pics or touches on a thread about it, I gotta fight it that much harder.  Specks and Flounder wouldn't know how to act!  I'm Watermelon with Envy, Sir.

[Yves]

nice bait, I also like this, it would like to purchase for walleye fishing

[Slow Burn]

Very Nice

[ctom]

Dandy mold. great color....

[grayth]

Thanks - I was actually trying to make it more transparent to use as a belly color too but even though I used just a smidge of the hi lite it's too dark for a belly but works great as a single color - I love it as a single so in my attempt to make a belly color I found my purple haze lol

The action on this is very cool - rigging makes me think plain jig head, shaky head it's pretty darn cool


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[ctom]

I used just a smidge of the hi lite it's too dark for a belly but works great as a single color

I'd worry more about the purple glitter bleeding if you re-heat/re-melt the plastic than I would the hi lite. Add some raw plastic and a shot of stabilizer to a cup and tear up the remainder of the hard plastic to add to it and heat it up in 20 second increments. That helps to lighten it up a little but you'll get a "shadow color", a bluish stain, other than from the black regardless. That comes from the purple glitter.

[grayth]

Thanks I think next time I try this for a belly ill just leave out the hi lite - the 1 drop of black made a hell of a sweet smoke

But since I only have single molds and the 4oz injector reheating lots for sure as is... Now I just squirt in the heat stabilizer rather then count drops lol


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[ctom]

...."Now I just squirt in the heat stabilizer rather then count drops lol"....

Now you have the hang of it.

[Bugpac]

If you squirt in heat stabilizer, how much are you guessing you use per gallon of plastic?

[grayth]

Couldn't say a quick shot is all I do so far and the bottle is still quite full


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[ctom]

Bugpac.....I wouldn't treat a gallon of plastic with stabilizer. Mostly using stabilizer is trial and error and ends up a balancing act between cooking time, volume of plastic, heat range of the cooking unit. I'd guess that most hobby guys aren't adding stabilizer to more than a cup of plastic at a time. Long-term heating or re-heat/re-melt offers some challenges too. Stabilizer is in all plastic out of the jug or box but the initial cooking cooks it out. Stabilizer is a constantly needed addition, not a one time thing. Clear or transparent colors call for more stabilizer use than solids or opaque colors.

Hobby injectors use it more often than commercial or production injectors.