The small Thump-It is my most requested bait. Unfortunately for me the chartreuse tail on other colors reigns supreme. Its just easier when I haven't got anything to do to shoot a couple cups of plastic for tail stock. I cut the bodies off between the button and sprue runner for space savings during storage, then trim each piece just before putting them back in the mold for adding the second color. The stored pieces will exude oil and is why I re-trim them, it leaves a clean butt end to weld to without having that oil to weaken the joint. I can squeak about 120 baits from a cup of plastic with enough left over to add to the remnants of a couple other cups to get another 40-50 baits. All of the remaining chartreuse trim from the baits gets bagged and re-melted somewhere down the road, I use a lot of chartreuse as accent coloring, but seldom do I make anything that is stand alone chartreuse...I just never fish a solid bait in that color.
