FishinsMyLife

Looks like a Triple Trout to me. If it swims like one, it should catch fish. Those are some good lookin' baits:yay:

That's what I figured. Thanks for all the help!

I might still laugh at the Crocs.. Awesome job catching a big fish on something you made

I appreciate all the help and suggestions so far. I tested the D2T on an old crankbait and things turned out all right, so I decided to move to a section of the Tru Tungsten swimbait. I filed down the edges (as suggested) to allow for some epoxy to adhere. It looked bad until I took a black Sharpie to it, and then it looked good as new (this was before I put on the epoxy). I constantly slow rotated the section of the bait by hand until it was adequately dry, and the I hung it up. One thing I noticed was two spots that there was no epoxy on. I guessed this was because I needed a little more D2T on the bait before I got to rotating it, but I'm not sure. if you have any suggestions on how to get a perfect coat, I'd appreciate it if you shared;) One spot is in the middle of the head and the other is to the right of the left nostril. http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa108/FishinsMyLife317/clearcoat.jpg

Thanks Basseducer and Mr. Poulson. Those pictures helped. I can push the joint rods out of the Tru Tungsten swimbait, so if I can whip up a rig like the one pictured, it should work fine. It just might take longer because I have to do a coating for each section separately.

I have been looking at all of the posts on clearcoating for the past couple days, and I still don't know what to do. I am looking to clearcoat this bait Tru-Tungsten Blue Gill and Talapia Swim Baits because the paint chips off too easily. I also want to clearcoat this bait Deps Realiser to help it suspend and for durability purposes. While I'm coating these baits, I also want to clearcoat some Bagley crankbaits that are down to the wood on some parts. I've been told to use Devcon 2 Ton Epoxy. From my reading, I have determined that you have to turn or rotate (or something...) the baits after you apply the epoxy, but I don't exactly understand this....I am assuming you hang the baits, but that makes me think the epoxy would run to one end... I know not to use the 5-minute variation of the epoxy, and I don't want to buy a rotisserie chicken cooker and hang my baits on it as I don't plan on doing this regularly. If someone could just give me some basic directions on how to do this entire process, it would be greatly appreciated

Quel sort de poisson est-ce que vous attrapez a France? Excusez-moi pour mon francais, je suis americain. I think that's right...

Alright, I've watched the Intro To Pouring video a few more times. I would like to know few things. What kind of plastic should I buy and where should I buy it? How do you control how soft your baits are? What would be a general guideline of how long to heat the plastic before pouring (heat for 2 minutes, check to see if it is thin enough, reheat in smaller time amounts until it is ready, don't burn it)? In the video, he added 50 drops of color for 4 ounces of plastic. Is that a good general guideline to follow for color? Salt makes a bait sink/ weight more (I think). Should I just experiment to find the sink rate/weight that I want or is there a rule for this? Thanks for the help so far and any more help is appreciated. Thanks for the How-To Video daveh.

I know ya'll probably get questions like this a lot, so I'm apologizing now...I want to start to pour plastics. I just want to start off with something easy like a plain old Senko. I know I'll have to order a mold and plastic, but I am unsure of what else. I also don't know what kind of plastic to get. I have been reading so many old threads that I can't take anything else in. I also have a bag of old soft plastics that have been torn up from fish and are now unusable. Is it possible to melt them down and use them to make new baits, or would I be better off not even trying that? I have watched the video about pouring plastics and that helped me out some... Any help would be greatly appreciated.