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Location: Madison Wi. Chain | I have heard that sharpies can be used to colorize soft plastics or create stripes on hair. Anybody use sharpies to doctor baits and what are some of the pros and cons? Thanks BG |
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| Hi,
I use sharpies to color bucktails but have never tryed it on plastics. The sharpie coloring will fade after awhile but it can be easily redone. |
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Location: oswego, il | I have used them to put bars on crankbaits. Been ok for that. |
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Location: Stevens Point | There is a video out where the gensons use it to color a spring dawg, make a white bait crappie colored. They had some success with it too. But I'm sure it fades with time. |
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| Sharpies work great, but do fade no matter what you put them on.
You can use them to doctor lures, but I spray some E-Tex over them to make them last longer.
You can check www.dickblick.com and take a look at the oil-based paint sharpies and other ultra fine paint points.
They don't work on hair, but they are great for doctoring or nursing lures.
Beav |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | I've used them to put stripes & spots on Aliens. But like other soft plastics it bleeds into the material after some time. Now I have a couple of odd looking Aliens. But that's OK, they kinda match my style of fishin' too.
"I've never seen anyone work a bait like that!" Todd Forcier (While fishing on the back of Todd's Petenwell Ice Breaker-Nov. 31st 2004)
I use a red sharpie to touch up my blood red hooks.
have fun!
Al |
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| Like Al, I use a sharpie to paint the bare metal of freshly sharpened hooks.
I use nail polish to paint up cranks and such. Tough stuff and there's no end to the colors that are available. I bet I have the largest nail polish selection of any hetero dude in SW Michigan. |
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Location: Lafayette, IN | I've used Sharpies several times on bass and musky tackle. Great for adding a few details to a bait when you know what the forage is looking like. Add contrast 'or' similarities. I keep red, black, and green in the boat all the time. |
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| First I thought the post was about "Harpies", the little winged devils that kept stealing the blind dudes snackage in the movie "Jason and the Argonauts". (cool movie, gotta DVD of it on the cheap rack at Wally Weird while back) Never realized their potential as a bait tool; here in the mid atlantic regions, most peeps use 'em to leave a message on a friends windshield at the grocery store, the message board at the Civic Center, add feathering to concrete lawn chickens, etc. The past few years the Sharpies have become extremely popular w/ the women folk here as make up and lip stick; evidently the stuff lasts a lot longer, and to be honest, sure does make 'em look better! The versatile pens have also become useful to cover up bruises/whelps from domestic altercations and used in conjunction w/ buckwheat flour, can disguise neck suckage on a teenagers' first date. Hard to believe something so simple can be so useful! |
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Location: Valentine, NE USA | nice to see you back Sir Sponge! |
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| Dude! Glad yer still around...once I can get back to work, this nonsense will hopefully cease.  May get Spongette to pick me up a 12 pak of Sharpies to hasten me temporary rehab...
Sharpies and Poster Board, part of the plan? |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | Perhaps a poster board and a handful of Sharpies should be incorporated into the plan. An extensive hand drawn plan geneology using the different colors to illustrate its evolution could be helpful. I have recently found myself wondering where exactly I am within maze that is the plan. It moves forward, sideways, up, down, but never backward. The plan does not retreat. It may need some pruning and shaping at this point as it spreads across the landscape.
The selection of colors certainly is broad for these markers. I assume college boys at universities across the nation are using them to to decorate their bretheren in a rainbow of colors as they pass out from over consumption.
Kevin
A mid-stream reorganization of the plan may be in order before the ice melts.
Edited by MuskyHopeful 2/28/2006 12:25 PM
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