My new lure mold and some Martha Stewart lures

I got my new lure mold the other day and finally got to try it out.  It pours a 4" swimbait, similar to a basstrix.  It is not a hollow bait but has a hook slot, or can be poured as a solid bait.  I tried a few in holographic shad and a silver shad with a green painted back.  The plastic paint works well.  I did these with a paintbrush but will use my airbrush when I get enough of them poured.  I used some homemade eyes and a few store bought eyes.  I like them both, the homemade eyes are large and really give it a scared look.  I am going to pour a few of these in white and chartreuse as well and see how they work.  They look good behind my 2oz heads, and on a hook as a rock cod fly.  The 4oz head is a bit large but would work.  They should also make a good trailer on my bucktails.  I may try them on a two hook 'umbrella' rig and see what happens.  I bet they will work well, and should be decent on the halibut too.

I may play around with some color laminates and maybe dipping the hook slot in a red to have an internal color.







I was at Michaels and found an interesting product.  It was Martha Stewart eye lash yarn.  It is glittery and makes a nice bucktail and fly.  It is polyester so does float, but really gives the lure a nice action when jigged (I tried it my in daughter fish tank, don't tell  ).  Who knew Martha was into fishing.  I will try a few and see how they hold up.



I also got some craft fur and tied some new rock cod flies.  Now if this wind would just stop!

Those are all excellent and the glittery ones sure is purdy. No doubt the fish will be impressed.

Nice.  The red and white jigs with the silver tail would qualify for Holiday tournament.   

Thanks guys.  A little Christmas Jig for sure 

I may try some of the alumi-dust for the plastics.  I could paint it in the mold and get the two tone color on the fish.  I may order some to give it a try.  The paint I am using is pretty potent/toxic, which allows it to chemically adhere to the plastic.  I use a small booth I made up to blow the fumes outside.  I have also use dry erase markers and melted them into the plastic in the past.

I tried a few different colors today.  I really like the silver minnow and the white.  I painted a few with the watermelon backs, but really the silver and white look great on their own.  I really like my large eyes on the lures, I need to get better at painting the pupil though.  The eyes I purchased do make the baits look store bought, but the big eyes yell eat me.



I played around with dipping some tubes with my left over plastic.  I get a good tube body but cutting the tails is sloppy.  I made a razor blade jig to slide them evenly, but find it does not work that well. I will try it again, but really see the advantage of the injected skirts.  My wife would kill me if I bought another mold so soon though  ;D

Those look awesome man.   You'll be pumping out your own line of swimbaits in no time!