I have been tying for a couple of years. I have been pouring plastics for about 3 months. I enjoy doing both but I find myself using hand ties more than plastics. I'm a single pole fisherman and I have been fishing mostly bridge pilings lately. Getting hung up is pretty rare so I lose very few jigs. I'm sure when I start fishing brush piles again I will prefer plastics due to the number of baits being lost to the pile. It hurts a lot more to lose a custom jig to a pile than a piece of plastic. I only make baits for person consumption so the amount of plastics baits have really grown. A gallon of plastisol goes along way.