Ice heads

[ctom]

Mike, here's one of these hung on a single of a demon jigging spoon, or maybe its a Lindy Frosty, whatever. I set my box of diamond jigs down and can't remember where. This is the smallest size in this type of jigging spoon so you should get a representative idea of how they look size-wise.

These are done in glow red and glow green bodies with a green chartreuse tail. Its my thinking that fish hit at the glowing portion of a bait so why not put the glow at the hook end of the bait so lips end up there. If you look closely you can see the separation in the green between the glow and green chartreuse.



Here's the same bunch in a semi-dark room with just whatever natural light came from taking the first picture outside on the porch but we are real cloudy so no direct sun at all.



The glow plastic and green chartreuse are all re-melts using the Essential plastic, X2 colorant and of course the Do-It Super glow pigments. Everything Do-It makes this small bait a certain winner. Making the tiny, two color glow baits isn't hardly practical in numbers for retail, but as a hobby and for personal use this is doable. Of course for those who want the tails to shine in the dark, a person can flip-flop this idea. I will note here that you do need to leave a small nub of body plastic at the front end of the tail to assure a solid weld. It doesn't have to be much and if you toss a couple extra degrees to the second injection things bind up real nice.

This might be the best less-than-$60.00 mold a person who ice fishes can buy.

[Mike J]

I like it Tom I fish these kind of baits on spoons as well. I always hook mine so the plastic sticks straight out horizontally from the hook I seem to have a harder time getting bluegills to bite with the plastic vertical like that.

[2XL]

COOL !  Thanks for posting those pics. So when will this mold be available for us mortals ? LOL

[ctom]

I think it will get posted yet this week 2X. When I handle this mold I just shake my head thinking I could make about 1/2 ounce of plastic to get a full shot. I don't really even feel the rod drop and I'm done.

If you look at the red glow corner of the picture you can see the body shape and how I have described it as 4 hot dogs stacked two on two. Unique body design.

[2XL]

I have a "similar" mold which also fills in half a heartbeat. I just wish it had a little bigger head. The Ice Head molds seems to have that.

Is the glow red a true glow red or does glow as a plain glow color ... if you know what I mean.  Hard to tell from your pic.

[ctom]

The red glows red. In this picture it had a very minimal amount of light exposure so the glow is faint yet. Hit that color with a camera flash and it looks red hot and like it could burn you. The color is a pinkish color in the hand with nothing but the pigment in the plastic as you can see. There is nothing on earth that will compare to the brightness of that green glow so seeing a red next to it really isn't playing fair for the red to see how well it glows.

I had a chance to sit and watch sunfish work plastics under the ice and when a glow color was dropped down to them they seemed to focus on the glow big time. If the tail was glow to the end, that's where they would nip and grab at. By reversing the usual order and having a glow body it is my hope that those nips will be up closer to there the point of the hook actually is. Gotta wait and see how things test out in the field.