Here’s a cutey…

  • Tom Sawvell
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    January 20, 2012 at 4:41 pm #1311960

    Snow day today…bored. So I got into the plastic and colorants again. This is a 1.75″ shad bait

    jerrj01
    Hudson, WI
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    January 20, 2012 at 5:04 pm #1030533

    You’re killing us. Since I’ve never done this kind of work I’m extremely interested on how you do this. Real cool. They must work great, but they do look like something from my high school Sex Ed class.

    DrewH
    s/w WI.
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    January 20, 2012 at 5:08 pm #1030538

    Quote:

    You’re killing us. Since I’ve never done this kind of work I’m extremely interested on how you do this. Real cool. They must work great, but they do look like something from my high school Sex Ed class.

    . I understand the program , but I thought love was blind.

    hairjig
    Cudahy, Wis.
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    January 20, 2012 at 6:28 pm #1030578

    Tom , those are “true works of art”, now you need someone such as myself to “field test ” them for you !!!

    mbenson
    Minocqua, Wisconsin
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    January 20, 2012 at 7:05 pm #1030595

    Quote:

    Tom , those are “true works of art”, now you need someone such as myself to “field test ” them for you !!!

    I would be happy to field test for North Central Northern WI!!!

    Mark

    Tom Sawvell
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    January 20, 2012 at 7:14 pm #1030602

    lol….I’ve had plenty of offers to take these for a test drive.

    The one shown here in orange is a 1″ ice minnow bait, but it actually tapes out at about 1.3″. I fished a few of these I had ordered last fall and early winter. Crappies really like them. The ones I have done are done in a very soft plastic. Soft but relatively tough. One person fished some of these in Iowa streams for winter trout and they held up really well under those conditions.

    There are several schools as far as making these things and other plastics. Using two injectors and blending blocks is a common practice to get the two-color look, but I subscribe to the single injector and hand pour the one side of the mold to get a nice mix. Blending blocks maybe are quicker in some regards but they take away the uniquness of hand building the baits. Its a slower process but they certainly do not look commercial like blending block baits appear.

    Casting jigs is way easier to get into. Shooting plastic is very, very expensive to get set up.

    Chuck Melcher
    SE Wisconsin, Racine County
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    January 20, 2012 at 8:30 pm #1030630

    Way cool… and I also would offer to test them on crappies and gills in SE WI, or anywhere.

    scott-k
    Red Wing
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    January 20, 2012 at 9:37 pm #1030651

    Tom –

    These are getting more incredible every day! Your website has quite a collection too. Crappies are not safe!

    Tom Sawvell
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    January 21, 2012 at 5:12 pm #1030803

    I have some sun to work with today and this pic shows the real colors a bit better than the other in this thread and it shows the color combo used in two different but similar baits.

    Randy Wieland
    Lebanon. WI
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    February 17, 2012 at 1:37 pm #1040022

    Tom, sweet looking baits! My vote is for oystershell with a red fleck, smoke/w gold fleck. I have been using the FinSfish 1-3/4″ in similar colors for years with outstanding success.

    palolo
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    February 19, 2012 at 12:55 am #1040473

    website?? pricing??

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