I managed to get my hands wrapped around one of these molds and got around to shooting it today and I couldn't be happier with the outcome.
I used all re-melts for this but you can get the gist of it. The blue on the far left decided to roll for me right as I took the picture and at 0 degrees I wasn't going linger long enough to take another after re-formatting. There is a chartreuse pepper under the blue as a split color. Split color and tail color shots are nothing more then simple with the mold. I shot the chartreuse for the tail color with the mold ice cold and the tails filled, every one of them. On Twister design molds its always the tails filling that is the biggest issue, but not there.
All I have done to these baits shown is having trimmed them from the sprue. They were laid out on the mold for this picture, set in the sun, shot the picture and that's it. As you can see, there is a lot of shine on the baits. I suspect that the comments recently about the Essential molds producing dull baits originated indoors and they baits maybe hadn't even seen real daylight. These shine just fine.
I was tempted to walk one of these guys hung on a jig down to the river behind our place but canned that idea after sticking more than my neck outside. I'd imagine they look pretty much like a twister on a jig.
The finished product from this mold will fish very well for walleyes and bass, probably for pike too. While the mold falls in line with the others in the Essential series as an entry level mold, there is no shortage of professional on the baits that come from it. Good job Do-It.
