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Anyone pouring their own soft plastics?
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<blockquote data-quote="onthewater102" data-source="post: 468405" data-attributes="member: 13702"><p>I'm trying to find a plastic formula that's more durable. The chatter trailers are fantastic for generating hits, but the plastic I have is lousy at surviving them. I know I need to add a hardener to it, and the sections are actually quite hefty (not like the swimbait boot tails) so I think once I figure out how to toughen it up I should be set.</p><p></p><p>That's sort of why I got into it in the first place. Fishing in the winter with Keitechs you end up with a bag full of tailless plastics courtesy of the yellow perch, having the ability to melt them down and reform 6 useless bodies into 3 or 4 useful baits rather than pay $1 +/- ea per bait in a new package just made sense. I'll never recover my cost on molds at this point, but as you said, I don't have to worry about running low on a favorite color or size and not being able to source them without paying 3x the cost of the baits in shipping or spending hundreds at a time buying in bulk.</p><p></p><p>No matter how bad an attempt at creating a color pattern ends up enough black dye and blue flake turns any disaster into something useful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="onthewater102, post: 468405, member: 13702"] I'm trying to find a plastic formula that's more durable. The chatter trailers are fantastic for generating hits, but the plastic I have is lousy at surviving them. I know I need to add a hardener to it, and the sections are actually quite hefty (not like the swimbait boot tails) so I think once I figure out how to toughen it up I should be set. That's sort of why I got into it in the first place. Fishing in the winter with Keitechs you end up with a bag full of tailless plastics courtesy of the yellow perch, having the ability to melt them down and reform 6 useless bodies into 3 or 4 useful baits rather than pay $1 +/- ea per bait in a new package just made sense. I'll never recover my cost on molds at this point, but as you said, I don't have to worry about running low on a favorite color or size and not being able to source them without paying 3x the cost of the baits in shipping or spending hundreds at a time buying in bulk. No matter how bad an attempt at creating a color pattern ends up enough black dye and blue flake turns any disaster into something useful. [/QUOTE]
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