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Guys also remember that your recipes will vary in color from one manufacturers plastic to another. M&F's plastic gives an amazing shine to the bait once there cured. I haven't seen another plastic give off such a nice looking finish.

For those of you who didn't know, Bob was Tim "More Power" Taylor in a past life. Ben

Couldn't agree more! Never had anything but outstanding service from Ultra Molds.

I have a drawer full of stuff I tried as colorants when I first started pouring, like my kids' old crayons, and candle wax colors. I learned pretty quickly it's much easier and safer to just use the colorants sold by the various plastisol suppliers, because they are designed for soft plastic baits. They actually work and the results are consistent and repeatable.

I have priced what I believe to be the better plastics on the market like M & F , Lure Craft, and plastic from Do IT. These three manufactures have 55 gallon drums priced within $15 of each other. Now if you buy plastic from another manufacture at significantly cheaper rate I believe there is a difference in materials used to make it. From my experience the cheaper plastic makes a cheaper looking bait as it may be tacky, plastic may bubble etc. But if a cheaper plastic works for your individual use then that's awesome.

I think now days in new cars i've seen real motor oil for vehicles that is purple so now it could a rainbow of motor oil colors, just like watermelon green. The watermelon I or anyone eat does not look like the watermelon fished with in most cases.

Hi Cory, Welcome to TU. If you have a Hobby Lobby close to you they carry Iwata airbrushes as well as some of the more popular brands of airbrush paint. Print out their 40% off coupon and you can get a good deal on a great airbrush. Paints that are made for airbrushes have the pigment ground to a much smaller particle size than craft paints. This allows them to be shot easily through an airbrush. The search feature located at the top right corner of the page can be your best friend when your just starting out. Pretty much anything you can ask has been asked and answered numerous times and all this information is stored in the archives. If you run up on something you can't find, or don't understand, don't hesitate to ask. More than a few of us have learned everything we know about building lures right here at TU. good luck, Ben

It's from an article by Greg Vinall. "Why Fish Don't See Your Lures", is the name of the article. Very interesting stuff lots of good useful information to consider when painting a lure pattern.

This whole Brand X plastic is best etc doesn't mean anything, it's all subjective. Use what works best for you.

"Buyer Beware" Absolutely NOT!!! Ultra Molds are top notch and very innovated people. Great people, with a great product at a great price!

You can tilt the mold toward the tail. I put a small piece of wood under the head of the bait. This will cut down on the plastic running into body of the bait.

I use mojo sinkers. They are available in different weights. Here's the line-through setup from an old swimbait that the bass killed. You can see it has a thick washer attached at one end, to keep it from pulling through the bait, and an integral weight half way up the through wire connector. It was actually poured into the swimbait, if I recall.

Here we all use plasticine, it is easy and it does not react with RTV 2 components silicone. The grey paste is plasticine. Bye. Cami

If you go to my site you can print a PDF with 184 recipes. You will need to experiment some to get the colors you want but that should be a good starting point. Good luck

Yes hello,And yes im a newbie,but i have been reading your site and was wondering if anyone has recipe for this tube ,its call peanutbutter&jelly,but not the sandwich i know how to make them.Question 2.what kind of mold. #3 wheres the best site for eveything you need for plastic making?ThankS everybody any help on start making plastic would be helpful?

Couple colors I made up today. The craws are actually based on the color of some crawfish I caught at the boat ramp last weekend. Hopefully the fish like the plastic version as much as the real thing!

That's a lot of different soft plastic colors to select from.... Good job!

Alright everyone, here are my two recipes that are nearly identical matches to Zoom's Scuppernong and Watermelon red. Scuppernong 1 cup of plastic 30 drops scuppernong (Lureworks) 4 drops cherry red (Lureworks) 4 drops black (Lurecraft) Those aren't bubbles in the plastic they're actually rain drops haha. Watermelon 1/2 cup plastic 3 drops Green Pumpkin (Lurecraft) 1 drop watermelon (Lurecraft) 1 drop Natural (Lurecraft) 4 drops Lime green (Lurecraft) Sorry for the poor quality of the pictures, only camera I have right now is my phone but the colors look great. The amounts are also linear, so for instance the scuppernong recipe for a 1/2 cup would be 15 drops, 2 drops, 2 drops.

Thanks Smallie, based on that we could put a guide at either the beginning or end of the cookbook to help those who are new to the hobby and don't know how much plastic to use. 8 fl oz= 1 cup and so on and so forth and possibly even people's use of dash and pinch to include teaspoon and tablespoon conversion. It was just a thought I was having after reading some of the cookbook last night and noticing we had multiple forms of measurement instead of one unanimous form of measurement for the recipes. I've got two spot on recipes to post later once I have my written recipes in hand for zoom scuppernong and zoom watermelon red.