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sometimes those ugly Baits will catch a lot of fish don't know if I ever told you guys about making up some jig skirts and I wanted them to be a brownish yellow I mean it was the most horrible color that I've ever seen anyway I threw them in my bag that I usually take out fishing with me and we were fishing in a slew and we were using green and white plastic was not doing anything and I decided to take out that horrible looking brown and yellow well admittedly restarted catching fish don't know what the difference was between the action was about the same the only thing I could think of was that yellow brownish color seem to do the trick so sometimes something ugly works out terrific. just make sure when you are buying colors that they are bleed proof I do use from quite a few different manufacturers all the ones that you guys have mentioned on here I have used basic lay all the manufacturers or companies by either die or pigments and mix them up yourself you can buy pigment from quite a few different companies and mix up your own if you like the pigments that I have bought in the past or 100% pure so a little bit when a long ways basically they take warm oil and mix in the pigments they also do with this with the dye so why not have gone and try some year own mixtures like to see what some of you guys can come up with.Originally Posted by arkansasbowhunter
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I sent dr. Nip some baits once and he said man they were the best looking tail he had seen and wanted to know how I did them. I told him but he said didn't make sense. He snapped a pic and sent to me and low and behold the baits bled into the tails lol. I still prefer non bleed Colorants but have some of the bleeders.
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Lol JW yeah those tails were something else. The body bled into the tail perfectly. I'll have to dig up a pic of it. Needless to say I have found that both orange and pink in X2 colorants bleed or at least orange bleeds into yellow and chartreuse and pink bleeds into white. Also found some chartreuse will bleed into pearl if left long enough.
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Okay here is what I'm talking about.
1st pic up is what JW was talking about. No it isn't Cajun Cricket as it says. I just threw the bait on something I was working on tonight. When I received this bait last year it was spectacular! The pumpkin seed went from chartreuse to orangish yellow flawlessly. Later came out to find the chartreuse tail had an orange touching it. Now over the however many months it has been sitting in my garage it has change more and doesn't look as magnificent as it did when I received it.
2nd pic up is a pink/white I poured. Now before you think I just dumped too much pink into this and that's why it bled this was only 6 drops of pink. I used 10 drops now a days along with blue hi-lite and doesn't bleed unless it's teamed up with white. It takes months to bleed. The pic is somewhere around 8-10 months.
3rd pic up is a white tail, and I've had clear and pearl tails thrown in a bin with chartreuse. The tails the chartreuse were touching bled greenish. This pic clearly shows the right side greenish compared to the white left side.
In closing learn your colorants. Some bleed and some don't Use this to your advantage.
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Spot on bro nip. Gotta be careful when storing out hard work
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I've seen plenty of cross coloring over the years. I keep all of one color scheme or pattern together in a single cell in a plano or a zip lock bag now. Over time I have figured out which non-bleed colors either will bleed a little or will inherit color from another bait color. These are generally made in limited numbers so I don't have to fret over wrecking a pile of nice baits. All of this comes with time and observation.
I believe the OP mentioned wanting changeable colors. Many of these will be bleeders so they won't work well as split colors and should be kept in packages of the same color.
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