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I have the 1.75 Crappie Carrot and love it - it was THE best bait I was tossing in the fall for larger fish. Clear with silver and a little blue flake was on fire.

Check out the Pin tail Shad mold from Lurecraft - that is a catcher extraordinaire. If I only had one mold that would be the one for me. It catches fish in every month and the mold pours easy-peasy. I have the Jacobs paddle tail mold and it is another easy one to shoot and is a fish catcher.

I have used MF plastic for years and like it a lot - same as Snake River above. Lurecraft makes some good stuff too. Both offer great customer service.

My best advise is to heat your plastic moderately - scorched plastic is not what you want. Slow and steady wins the race so resist the urge to over -nuke it -- frequent stirring for me please.

Good luck!

Thank you for the info Shmang...

Originally Posted by Shmang

My best advise is to heat your plastic moderately - scorched plastic is not what you want. Slow and steady wins the race so resist the urge to over -nuke it -- frequent stirring for me please.

Good luck!

This is good advice! When I first start to heat my plastic I go 1 minute at a time, once it starts to turn I go 30 seconds at a time. I stir and check temperature and then heat as necessary based on temperature. I have never scorched plastic and from what I have read, I don't want to either. I know what burnt plastic smells like and I don't want my work area smelling like that!

I do believe that Dead On is making their own now. I have been tempted to try M-Fs Super Soft for stick baits. Soft formulas worry me though, I worry about durability.

I looked on Lurecraft website and don't see a Pin tail Shad Mold... But did see a 1 7/8" Pintail Crappie Minnow and a 3.75" Split Tail Shad. You got a picture of this Pin Tail Shad Mold?

Originally Posted by Shmang

I have the 1.75 Crappie Carrot and love it - it was THE best bait I was tossing in the fall for larger fish. Clear with silver and a little blue flake was on fire.

Check out the Pin tail Shad mold from Lurecraft - that is a catcher extraordinaire. If I only had one mold that would be the one for me. It catches fish in every month and the mold pours easy-peasy. I have the Jacobs paddle tail mold and it is another easy one to shoot and is a fish catcher.

I have used MF plastic for years and like it a lot - same as Snake River above. Lurecraft makes some good stuff too. Both offer great customer service.

My best advise is to heat your plastic moderately - scorched plastic is not what you want. Slow and steady wins the race so resist the urge to over -nuke it -- frequent stirring for me please.

Good luck!

Team: My error and apologies - it is indeed the "1 7/8 Pintail Crappie Minnow" on the Lurecraft site - sorry for the confusion.

Hey BamaMan and Jamesdean - If you care to please PM your address and I will get two baits to you for your review. I think having one in hand can help you a smidgen more than just looking at the web page. It really is a catcher for both numbers and size. I love my other molds mentioned but day in and out that Pintail rocks.

Take care,
Shmang

Originally Posted by Shmang

Team: My error and apologies - it is indeed the "1 7/8 Pintail Crappie Minnow" on the Lurecraft site - sorry for the confusion.

Hey BamaMan and Jamesdean - If you care to please PM your address and I will get two baits to you for your review. I think having one in hand can help you a smidgen more than just looking at the web page. It really is a catcher for both numbers and size. I love my other molds mentioned but day in and out that Pintail rocks.

Take care,
Shmang

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Have some time on my hands with not a lot to do, so I started looking on line for soft plastic's color recipe's so I would have a starting point as well as an idea of what colors I would need. I found some in the forum Texas Fishing Forum. Thought it would be a good Idea, as well as keeping a record of what I actually mix up. My laptop wont send any of them to my printer program so it looks like a whole lot of writing. Using college rule paper and writting on both sides I'm on page 19 using notebook paper, and only 3/4 of a page in the computer copied...AAAAAARRRGH!!!! Writes cramp....Break time....

Originally Posted by Shmang

Check out the Pin tail Shad mold from Lurecraft - that is a catcher extraordinaire. If I only had one mold that would be the one for me. It catches fish in every month and the mold pours easy-peasy.

I have used MF plastic for years and like it a lot - same as Snake River above. Lurecraft makes some good stuff too. Both offer great customer service.


Good luck!

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