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Anyone pour their own soft plastics?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dyno6942" data-source="post: 328531" data-attributes="member: 12045"><p>I used to do alot of bluefish and striper fishing, casting 4" sassy shads on 1/2 oz heads. We would go thru 50 - 100 bodies a trip. I got tired of paying 40 cents a piece for Shad bodies, so I bought a bunch of stuff from LureCraft. Large melting pot, thermometer, stir sticks, measuring spoons and cups, colorant and a gallon of plastic, and 7 double molds. Total was about $200. Out of that one gallon of plastic, I made 600 shad bodies, which would have cost me $240 at the store. With 14 molds to fill, by the time you pour the last one, the first mold had cooled enough to pull the bodies out. I ordered medium strength plastic, and the shad bodies that I made had way more action than the store type. You can save old soft plastics, and remelt them, but you have to rinse and dry them first. It's a great rainy day or winter project.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dyno6942, post: 328531, member: 12045"] I used to do alot of bluefish and striper fishing, casting 4" sassy shads on 1/2 oz heads. We would go thru 50 - 100 bodies a trip. I got tired of paying 40 cents a piece for Shad bodies, so I bought a bunch of stuff from LureCraft. Large melting pot, thermometer, stir sticks, measuring spoons and cups, colorant and a gallon of plastic, and 7 double molds. Total was about $200. Out of that one gallon of plastic, I made 600 shad bodies, which would have cost me $240 at the store. With 14 molds to fill, by the time you pour the last one, the first mold had cooled enough to pull the bodies out. I ordered medium strength plastic, and the shad bodies that I made had way more action than the store type. You can save old soft plastics, and remelt them, but you have to rinse and dry them first. It's a great rainy day or winter project. [/QUOTE]
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