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    A month or so ago I had an order for some baits blood red with a chartreuse sparkle tail. They looked great until the red began to bleed. After some searching I found a red colorant that's colorfast and re-shot the order. After clearing the work bench i bagged up the bleeders and set them aside being curious what they would end up like. Here is the end result of blood read and chartreuse sparkle....



    LOL. I have a spot on the Mississippi River that has great mid-summer crappie fishing right out along the main channel and plastics of pink/orange are often pretty decent baits. I tossed these in the tackle pail I use on the big river and plan to see how they produce. I have this wonderful color in both the shads shown and in a nice 1.75" stinger bait and ironically both of these bait styles are the hot ones at this area when the crappie bite is on.

    I don't know if I can even duplicate the tail color here. In the sunshine this color combo is just flat out something else. Maybe I can quit being peeved about having a color bleed on me, eh?

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    Woah man them look great!



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    We tye a crappie jig just for fall fishing1/48 oz chart minnow head with silver body and red tail great color.Maybe on to something.
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    Looks great to me. Pink with a orange tail is a awesome bait.

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    Interesting. The Crappie will tell you if you are on to something. Then you will have to duplicate the color scheme. Should work.
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    That is one of the more natural coloration creations, accidental or not, I have seen in plastics. Nice transition of color and nothing too bold. Should work really well for spooky lunkers. Looks like an old faded bait I had as a kid that the panfish wouldn't leave alone.
    I love taking my kids fishing, now if I could just manage to fish at the same time.

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    looks great!

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    pink and orange is kind of offbeat but it is very interesting I have never thought about taking colors that had nothing to do with one another as you would take a purple and green or something like that so this is pretty fascinating hope to see more of this.

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