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Location: Illinois-Indiana | Was wondering if anyone out there pours their own trailers and how expensive it would be. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I poured my own Creatures for years, and sold them wholesale too. It is inexpensive, not too difficult, alot of fun, but stinky. I will see if I can locate the package a gent sent to me a year ago with some of my old Sysyem Lures creatures in it, and upload a photo. |
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Location: NeverNever Lake | Ralph, it all kinda started in the second grade with the introduction of the Creepy Crawlers Factory. Ive been through 3 gallons of the stuff in the past few years. It's a lot of fun as Steve said and the fumes are nasty. I'm getting ready to put a Sharp Half-Pint Microwave on the boat sos I can pour out on the lake. I can cool the molds off in the livewell.....................................C'RAZE'Y 1
Edited by RAZE1 1/13/2004 11:53 PM
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Location: Lake Vermilion Tower, MN | Hi Ralph,
I don't pour my own, but I have a sponsor(Bearpaws Handpoured Baits)
that makes them for me. They are much better than any of the mass produced plastics you buy at the tackle store. 
You can add any scent you want and they hold up so much better, than any I have ever used before.
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| Any hints at how to get started, where to get the stuff ect.? On a related note, how about pouring hard plastics? I am aware that it would involve a lot more stuff but it must be do-able, 'cause there sure is a lot of different baits, with different quality levels. |
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| Stripe55, to do hard plastics you would need an injection molding machine. Also depending on what kind of plastic you will need a dryer for the resin then you would need a thermolator to cool the mold off. It can be done but the start up would be kind of expensive. I've always wanted to get a small press set up in my polebarn and do something like that if I had the money. You can buy some used stuff to get started look up plastic news they have alot of used stuff for sale.
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Location: God's Country......USA..... Western Wisconsin | For soft plastics try here:
http://www.lurecraft.com/
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Location: Padova - Italy | Hi,
I hand pour the tails of these 10'' swimming jigs. Great baits for euro Pike. Also have a 10'' soft jerkbait.
Great work RAZE with your plastics!!!
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Location: Racine, Wi | Luca, those are some sweet looking jigs. Very different. Nice work!!!
Good Lungen,
Joel |
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Location: Padova - Italy | Thanks Joel. |
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Location: NeverNever Lake | Thanks Luca, I'd like to have a couple of those jigs also. Maybe we could trade sometime in the near future. I just attempted to make my first 100% silicone mold for a 10" Senko. I didn't mix water with it, so it didn't dry.
Thought for today: you don't learn a damn thing the second time a mule kicks you in the head |
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA | I ordered a catalog from Lure craft, but was wondering if anyone knew if the molds they sell are "one-sided" or "two-sided"?
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Location: Padova - Italy | Give me your address RAZE and I will ship to you a pair of my jigs.
So I consider you my field tester on muskies.
I'm also strongly interested about 10'' senkos!
Thanks
Edited by Luca Cattin 1/16/2004 7:12 AM
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Location: Illinois-Indiana | Any of you guys pour 6" twin tail grubs?
I'm looking to get these in bulk, say 500 at a time.:)
Luc, nice jigs.
I looked at your location, great to have someone chime in from the other side of the world. |
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Location: Padova - Italy | Yes Ralph, the old world. But we think about the same things. We look constantly to musky scene dreaming about your lakes, your incredible fish and all about big esox fishing. Fortunately we have those big pike…
Thanks. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Here are some pictures of the original Creatures sold by Musky Lunger Tackle in the late 70's and early 80's. I finally found that box that someone who had a bunch of the System Lures packages sent to me.
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| The molds from lurecraft are 1 sided. |
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| tackleunderground.com has ALOT of info on making hard baits AND pouring your own plastics. Great group of regulars chime in to help the newbies. |
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Location: Rhinelander. | Ralph,
Send me an e-mail and I will reply back with a manufacturer of them. I pour my own and use to sell them but don't care to pour that amount anymore. This company has many options and colors and in that quantity you can buy from them if you have a tax number.
Don Pfeiffer
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