Thumper fry line color

**CTom** · 08-08-2016, 04:31 PM

I make quite a few of the thumper fry baits for a few locals who love them and swear its the only bait they use for the crappies around here. The baits they want are done with a black or purple hand poured belly section that gets dotted with raw colorant and then finished with a fairly clear super sparkle top plastic. Today I had an order filled leaving half of the mold not needed. I didn't want to fill that side with super sparkle so I hand poured both sides for those cavities leaving them a little short on fill. I dotted the color as I normally would and then shot the clear to finish. This made 5 baits with a black top and bottom and the clear running right up the center and pulling a hot pink line to the paddle in the tail's end.

I love how making this bait in this fashion leaves the tail. Solid colors or half solid and half clear it shows how there are a lot of options with this bait and coloring technique.

**jaxsprat** · 08-08-2016, 04:38 PM

Can I buy all your trials & scraps please? tanks jax

**DrNip** · 08-08-2016, 05:06 PM

Dang nice looking baits. Y'all must have some sophisticated crappies up north. Ours done here in the south don't need nothing that flashy to bite, lol.

**CTom** · 08-08-2016, 06:11 PM

Trust me Doc....the fancy is for the anglers' $$.

**DrNip** · 08-08-2016, 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by CTom

Trust me Doc....the fancy is for the anglers' $$.

Right, right!!! lol

**RetiredRR** · 08-08-2016, 09:19 PM

Sometimes I think the crappies around my location have seen just about everything everybody is throwing at them. Our crappies have rather sophisticated tastes I think.
I second the idea on them scraps your throwing together. If you'd flavor 'em with a little mint, I might try one too. I tried a few pink things you have put together CTom and
for the first time in my life I'm catchin' crappies on pink. I just never could bring myself to puttin' anything pink on my jig heads. LOL

**CTom** · 08-09-2016, 09:04 AM

Pink and I are not good company either RR. Lots of people do well with pink combinations. I can sit at the motor and catch crappies until my arm hurts with a purple/chartreuse bait while my buddy is doing the same with pink/white. I can put the exact same rig as what he is using on my line and not get so much as a hit.

**CTom** · 08-09-2016, 10:52 AM

So while I had the mold out.....

**cutbait** · 08-09-2016, 01:34 PM

Nice work

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**SeaRay** · 08-09-2016, 01:45 PM

I don't remember ever seeing a crappie jig body like those with the eye poured into it. I don't pour any, but wondered how you get the eyes in the pour, or are the stuck on afterwards?

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