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It's the Terrible at Fishing radio show on Gold

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Country Radio. Here's your fishing expert and

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host, Michael Ruffino. Welcome back to Terrible

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at Fishing everybody. I thought this week we'd

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go over not just a little bit about the fishing

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report, but how to make baits and how I do it

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and some of the techniques that I use. But to

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start us off, we're going to talk a little bit

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about fishing reports. So lakes are becoming

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unsteady, so I would not go out and step on those

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lakes. Although we are having sort of a fluctuation

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of different weathers lately, the ice is getting

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layered and thin. Hit some rivers. River's going

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to be doing really well. You know, the Lost River

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is doing really well. You know, over in Bonanza,

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I think I've told you all that. And look for

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some open water. So the other river is going

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to be opening pretty soon. Give it a few more

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weeks. Klamath River and after Memorial Day we'll

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have the Williamson's and the Wood Rivers open.

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So, but if you're indigenous, have at it. That's

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good stuff. Me, I have to move to Italy to be

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indigenous. So, baits, baits, baits, baits. I

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will tell you that some of my more popular videos

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on terrible at fishing online is on bait making.

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Now I'm a hard bait type of guy. I love fishing

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with hard baits, you know crank baits jerk baits

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things like that and I just get a lot of hits

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off of them and somebody asked me this week when

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I was at a meet -and -greet and What makes my

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baits better than other people's baits? Well,

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because I know my water So my lakes my rivers

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things like that. I know what those fish like

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You know, from one lake to another lake, one

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body of water to another water, you get different

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preferences of fish. Some of them will hit red,

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chartreuse, green, black and blue, things like

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that. And then there's some things they have

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in common. So, you know, how do you kind of start

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out, you know, painting your own baits? And I

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airbrush my baits. So, you know, buying an airbrush

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from Amazon. Yeah, it's not even gonna cost you

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a hundred bucks, you know, for a setup. Although

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a good airbrush, which you would graduate to

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fairly quickly, runs about a hundred bucks. I

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have a Pache and the Pache or even an Iwata.

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Those are really good brands and you really can't

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go wrong. I kind of went with Pache because,

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I don't know, I had a Pache 40 years ago and

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loved it. I always like the brand. And then you're

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going to need acrylic paint. Yeah, water -based

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paint. You're going to think, Mike, you're throwing

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it in the water. How long is that paint going

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to last? It will last. I'll tell you in a sec.

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The acrylic set, if you know how to mix your

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colors, just get the primaries. And just get

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a color wheel, print one off of the internet,

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and you can make any color you want. I like to

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go into the pearls. Pearls refract light a little

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bit better and they look prettier. But the pearl

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essence have a pigmentation in it and that actually

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or even metallics in order to get the light to

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flash off of those baits better. And that's really,

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you know, I mean I kind of like staying within

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those realms. I'm not much for fluorescence.

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So I don't usually do fluorescents. I do have

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a couple that are fluorescent like chartreuse

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which is a sort of a yellowish green tinge to

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it and the and maybe red, you know, there's a

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scarlet red that I use that works really really

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well but You know, I kind of stay within the

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metallics and pearls because as light hits it,

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it reflects better off of it. And then, there

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are some tricks to painting a bait. Some baits,

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we're putting stripes on it. Just vertical stripes.

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They don't have to look purdy. Just vertical

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stripes. gives the bait some flash as it's pulled

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through the water. Sometimes a striped bait works

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better for me than other baits. Putting patterns

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on it, you know, dots or something like that,

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helps it look more like a real critter to the

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fish. Lake of the Woods is where I fish most

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of the time and there are certain colors that

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work really well. Lavender or purple. Purple

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or lavender works really well in Lake of the

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Woods. Also browns or golds. Browns and golds

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work very well. And then probably my favorite

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that nobody else practically fishes with. Black.

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I know, you're thinking black. I go, yeah, black.

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One of my favorite baits from a company called

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Sixth Sense online is one called the Black Magic

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Design. Very hard to paint, by the way. So I

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always go to the clearance section and check

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them out. And my favorite bait from them is called

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a Swink. It's got sort of an L -bill on it. It

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goes down and then jets out. The Swank Black

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Magix, good as gold. Now I do paint that design

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something similar, not as, you know, exactly

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like theirs, but black with blue spots with a

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yellow belly. Probably one of my best baits.

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And you're wondering, you know, typically what

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you would do is throw dark baits inside dark

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water, stained water, very little clarity in

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the water, but the nice thing about black baits,

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they always work. Black baits always work. Adding

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the blue on there, which Bass Sea is a different

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color than blue, but it's very attractive to

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them. And then adding that yellow belly to it,

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just a stripe right down the middle center line

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on the belly. And then I put iridescent eyes

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on it. Probably one of the best combinations

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I've ever done. I've always caught personal bests

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off of my black baits. I'll even do black baits

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in soft plastic. Ask a lot of fishermen, ask

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them about black and blue. Black and blue is

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a very, very, very popular combination for soft

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baits and jigs. They just don't translate it

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over to hard baits. Why? I have no idea. It works

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with worms and jigs. Why don't they translate

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it over to hard baits? I hardly ever see anybody

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fish a black and blue in a hard bait. I think

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I'm the only one. I got a lot of them, too. I

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mean, my walls got a bunch because I had a clearance

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sale over at Sixth Sense and I kind of went nuts.

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Two bucks each? You can't go wrong. I don't know

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if the sale's going on still, but worthy of a

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check. Always go to the clearance section. uh

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it's 244 each um that is just a pretty good deal

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i just had to do it so but black and blue is

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one of those things that'll work in any body

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of water now you're probably wondering why does

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black work so good because it presents a clear

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distinguishable profile the water even in dark

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stained water where you got six inches of visibility

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it actually has a really good profile and the

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fish see the profile if you had let's say a white

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bait it just blends right in they don't see the

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profile it disappears it's like it's invisible

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it's cloaked black baits work good Now, this

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year I will be painting quite a few black and

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blues, and you'll be able to buy them over at

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the marina at Lake of the Woods. Those were,

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those actually, if I was to tell you to buy one

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of my baits, I'd get the black and blues. You'd

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be shocked. You really would be shocked. They

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have a really loud rattle, so they're like a

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castanet. good good sound coming from them in

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a in a deeper tunnel too the bigger ones too

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and I do have a four and a half inch and throwing

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a big bait gets you a bigger fish you know I

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put one odd hooks on there which is a big hook

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and you know just make sure you don't hook yourself

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now this year I'm going to I think we're going

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to package it in a very unique way so But when

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you when you paint your baits, so after you let's

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say you get your hairbrush You get your paints.

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Now, where do you get the blanks? now There's

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lots of places on online that you can get blanks.

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My favorite one is lure build L -U -R -E build

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calm lure build James gonna actually owns that

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company is a really nice guy. He's always done

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me right So LureBuild actually is my favorite

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place to buy baits. And so now you got, you know,

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there's lots of places, there's Barlows and other

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companies, and you can buy these baits and you're

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going to need split rings and really good hooks.

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I'm a big Gamakatsu fan, so Gamakatsu hooks are...

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best hook I've ever found, although they don't

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make all sizes, unfortunately. So with my Finesse

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or very light tackle baits, I can't go with Kamikatsu.

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Sometimes I go with the VMC, depending on the

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VMC, because VMC can make some pretty yucky baits

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or hooks, but they can make a really good one

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too. So it just depends. And so now you've got

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your your blanks, but you're gonna need one more

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thing and that's gonna be a clear coat and There's

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lots of different epoxy clear coats out there

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some are softer some are harder Lurebill pretty

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much has everything that you need. He's got a

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two -part epoxy that works very very well so

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you can mix that up into 50 -50 and just paint

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it onto your baits. In a couple days it dries

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hard as a rock and that paint and that bait will

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just be able to endure through lots of days of

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fishing. So that's really how it takes a little

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bit of practice. takes a little bit you could

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use almost anything for a um a pattern you know

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um luffa sponges you know the luffa sponge i

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just cut those up and i use those as a pattern

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for scales i know and it's cheap you can get

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them over at you know uh a store and they're

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dirt cheap and there's a lot of lot of netting

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in there for you to go ahead and use and sometimes

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i just cut my own you know just buy some sheets

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of plastic from amazon and then you just cut

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it out and just make stripes or something like

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that my wife did scrapbooking she doesn't do

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it anymore but she had all sorts of neat little

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scrapbooking scissors and stuff like that that

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i use in order to make these really cool um stencils

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when I when I go ahead and do it. Nowadays I've

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got you know a laser machine CNC machine things

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like that and I'm able to do lots of different

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things with my machines but still simple works

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you know just simple works. You don't have to

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get fancy and you don't have to create a you

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know a real live looking you know trout. you

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know, but I think as you get into it you'll get

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better at it and you will find certain color

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combinations work better for you and your style

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of fishing. And I love topwater fishing in the

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summer. We probably have the best topwater fishing

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here in Klamath Falls in the summer. I mean 78

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degree water at Lake of the Woods surface temp.

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You're just popping, you're just getting topwater

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explosions all day long. Square bills work really,

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really well, always. Always have a bunch of square

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bills with you because square bills just always

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work. Definitely the most popular bait people

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have in their tackle boxes. So, sort of take

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that into consideration when you're buying your

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baits. I hope this little bit of helps. We're

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going to go into soft baits, how to make them,

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locally and beyond. Welcome back to Terrible

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at Fishing. We are talking how to make baits

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today. Now, you know, we just talked about hard

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baits. That's near and dear to my heart. But

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this last year, I wanted to start making soft

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baits and spinners. Now, spinners are probably

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the most effective bait there is in your tackle

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box. And yet we pay four, five, six dollars for

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a spinner. And that gets expensive because you

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lose spinners a lot. You just do. You lose them.

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So, I saw this, you know, they're called wire

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benders. Wire benders can be very expensive,

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you know, a hundred bucks for a good wire wire

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bender. But I saw this one Video and it was like

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the only video. It just popped on one day. I

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don't know on YouTube and it's called tackle

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tool and The tackle tool I do have a video on

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my YouTube channel on on this tool as well as

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how to use it The tackle tool is and a very very

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affordable wire bender to make Spinners as well

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as many other different types of baits comes

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with a nice little book But for 40 bucks think

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about this for a second 40 bucks When it'll cost

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you about 80 cents then to make a spinner one

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that you like 80 cents Now you're gonna go to

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a store and spend five bucks on a spinner pretty

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easily That's eight spinners Eight we all have

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eight spinners in our tackle boxes So this one

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tool, eight spinners. Now you can make any spinner

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you want. You can make it heavy, make it light,

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make it small, make it big. You can make any

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color that you want. Because, you know, beads

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are very, very cheap. And then the weight, you

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know, the weight that we put on it is very, very

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cheap. And blades are very, very cheap. I mean,

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just go on to Amazon and check it out. It's just

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crazy. um how affordable that is that little

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wire ton i mean pennies you know so now the tackle

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tool and i have a really good video because i

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made a couple videos and it wasn't very good

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somebody says mike you got to do a better job

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at making this video so just recently i put the

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camera right on it and hopefully you know i did

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a good job on demonstrating the tackle tool.

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I think it's from Jans Craft or something like

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that. Anyway, it's in my video. But this tool

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will make spinners for you easily. I mean, just

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so easy in the color combinations that you want.

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So there are certain... I remember when Topsy

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was a big deal. Now it's gone because, you know,

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they took the dam out. But over there, red worked

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really, really well. No, chartreuse worked really,

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really well at Topsy. And then red worked really,

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really well at Lake of the Woods. So I would

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never, you know, you just didn't cross it. But

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when you fish certain water bodies, they like

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certain colors and color combinations. You know,

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they might want a gold blade. They might want

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a silver blade. They might want, you know, a

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blade that you painted. And you can just take

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waterproof markers, and you don't have to be

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fancy about this, but you can put patterns, dots,

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black dots on it, or yellow stripes, whatever

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you want onto the blade with just waterproof

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markers. I mean, it's just very, very simple.

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And then you get to choose your hook quality

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too, which is always my favorite thing. is choosing

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my hook quality. Now typically with, you know,

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spinners, we're dealing with, you know, size

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10 or size 12 hooks. Really tiny, small hooks.

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But let's say you want to fish the Williamson's.

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Well, now you can't use a treble hook, so now

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you've got to use a single hook. Well, now you

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can make a whole tackle box just for the Williamson's

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River. That's the nice thing about it. You know,

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if you go into a store, try to, I mean, I think

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Blue Fox, which is my favorite store bought spinner,

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and you can buy those Sonic Bells too. So you

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can make your own Blue Fox. But Blue Fox gives

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you a single hook option, you know, so they give

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you an extra hook in there for you to switch

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out the hooks. So those are some of the things

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that making your own bait spinner allows you

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to do. You can choose different blades. You can

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make a Willow blade, a Colorado blade, or whatever

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on it. And you can just make whatever you think

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works best. If you have a favorite, let's say,

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rooster tail or something like that, you can

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do that. And you can buy hooks with feathers

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on them, or learn how to tie it. I've learned

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how to tie. So, everything I throw is something

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that You know, I got creative and I made. And

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that's, you know, people wonder why I catch so

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many fish. I know this channel is called terrible

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at fishing. But, you guys know when I started

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the channel, I was paralyzed and I could barely

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speak. And so I was terrible at fishing. So it

00:22:01.430 --> 00:22:05.569
was kind of a sarcastic joke about what, you

00:22:05.569 --> 00:22:07.710
know, when I, you know, when I started the channel,

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I could always fish. I just couldn't fish. You

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know, you couldn't hold a rod, barely talk. So

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that's, you know, the Tackle Tool by Jan's Craft

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is probably one of the most affordable ways to

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make the most common bait that you will ever

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use, which is a spinner. Worth it? Absolutely.

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Absolutely. definitely I would tell you to just

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invest 40 bucks because you put more than that

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every time you go fishing practically and now

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you can make an entire tackle box just for you

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your designs your color choices your weights

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your sizes you just can't do better than that

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and you will catch more fish now we will end

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the show talking about my my other you know,

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types of baits that I use, which is soft baits.

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Now, soft baits kind of intimidated me a little

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bit because you're dealing with hot molten plastic,

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something called plastisol. And the molds can

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be very, very costly. For a good mold, yeah,

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you're going to spend 100 bucks fairly easily,

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maybe 200 bucks for a mold. But, recently too

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that I did try a $20 mold from Amazon. It was

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20 bucks something like that. It wasn't very

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much and I wanted to try it. I mean we got to

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loose and it actually worked out very well. It's

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just a three inch paddle tail grub and I wanted

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to try this not only for the price but since

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it was long you know three inches is long. I

00:24:01.160 --> 00:24:03.900
could cut the head off an inch or whatever and

00:24:03.900 --> 00:24:07.000
make it a two -inch. And so this one little bait

00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:12.559
allowed me to, you know, have two baits. And

00:24:12.559 --> 00:24:17.339
it's a two -worm, two -grub mold. So every time

00:24:17.339 --> 00:24:21.960
you put, you know, plastic salt in it, it makes

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two. Not a bad little mold. Not a bad little

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mold. But typically, Angling AI is my preferred

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mold and those, they do get costly. I like, so

00:24:34.650 --> 00:24:36.809
there are two different types of molds. There's

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injection molding and open pore molding, all

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molds. And the open pore is exactly that. You

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don't need an injection tube. you can just pour

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it right into the mold and it sets in a few minutes

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and then you pop it out and do another one and

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another and another. Now the nice thing about

00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:03.059
an open pour mold is when you don't have to buy

00:25:03.059 --> 00:25:05.380
an injector which is going to run you quite a

00:25:05.380 --> 00:25:11.380
bit of money but you also can heat up in a microwave

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that I bought for 25 bucks over at the thrift

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store two different colors. and then just pour

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them in one after the other and then they bond

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together and this way you have more variety.

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Now, with injection molds you need to have a

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double injector which is going to run you quite

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a bit of money, you know, 180 bucks for a good

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double injector. This, you just need two, you

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know, Pyrex, you know, or Pyrex measuring cups.

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You can just pour it in there. My 6 inch open

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pour mold is by far one of my favorites. I can

00:26:02.200 --> 00:26:04.960
make anything I want. I also can paint it with

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my airbrush. I use an oil -based paint. You can

00:26:10.099 --> 00:26:12.440
paint it and the paint stays on. It does not

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come off. I don't have to clear coat it or nothing.

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The beautiful thing about soft baits, too, is

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there's a lot more action. It's affordable, relatively

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speaking. I get Dead On Plastic is where I get

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my Plastisol and my colors. I know how to mix

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color, too. I didn't there are some excuse me

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color shifting ones that are very good so the

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dead on plastic has a great great great um selection

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and you can just buy a gallon of that and you

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heat it up at three up to 350 degrees and you

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can mix in your colors and little flakes and

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pour it into your molds it works very well or

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You could just buy a white or something like

00:27:19.480 --> 00:27:22.779
that, create a base and you can paint it. And

00:27:22.779 --> 00:27:25.460
it's kind of fun because painting, I could do

00:27:25.460 --> 00:27:29.480
a lot with my airbrush and I can create patterns

00:27:29.480 --> 00:27:32.279
on the soft bait. I can create three or four

00:27:32.279 --> 00:27:34.299
different colors on it. I can make the head a

00:27:34.299 --> 00:27:37.079
different color than the tail. I could do so

00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:40.839
much with it and that's what's so much fun. The

00:27:40.839 --> 00:27:44.269
creativity that you get out of making baits is

00:27:44.269 --> 00:27:47.670
just a lot more fun. I mean, you could just take

00:27:47.670 --> 00:27:50.769
a grub and dip it, you know, the head of it or

00:27:50.769 --> 00:27:53.630
the tail of it. Just dip it in some chartreuse

00:27:53.630 --> 00:27:57.109
dye, and you've done it. I mean, there you go.

00:27:57.250 --> 00:28:01.309
You got a chartreuse tail. And just dip them,

00:28:01.349 --> 00:28:07.990
dip, dip, and off you go. It is that easy. I

00:28:07.990 --> 00:28:13.109
know it kind of looks intimidating, but Making

00:28:13.109 --> 00:28:15.789
you know you can get that $25 or whatever it

00:28:15.789 --> 00:28:22.750
was mold that grub on the internet and then You

00:28:22.750 --> 00:28:28.089
know you buy some plastisol and some some colorant

00:28:28.089 --> 00:28:31.710
You'll need a Temperature, you know thermometer

00:28:31.710 --> 00:28:35.950
make sure everything's at 350 degrees and then

00:28:35.950 --> 00:28:42.779
just go to the go to the thrift store and Buy

00:28:42.779 --> 00:28:49.440
what you need. Buy some Pyrex class things and

00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:54.380
some stirs and whatnot. It really doesn't require

00:28:54.380 --> 00:28:58.799
a whole lot. It just takes a little bit of patience

00:28:58.799 --> 00:29:02.700
and you can always re -melt it. Even if you mess

00:29:02.700 --> 00:29:07.799
it up, you can just re -melt it. In fact, you

00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:11.319
probably have a lot of plastic baits on your

00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:14.680
wall that you don't use, and you can remelt and

00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:17.400
make something else out of it. And that's another

00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:22.160
neat thing about plastic. You can reuse it. But

00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:26.400
that's about... I mean, the advantage of making

00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:30.319
your own bait is that you will catch more because

00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:35.079
you know what works best for you. and in the

00:29:35.079 --> 00:29:40.279
waters that you go ahead and fish in. So try

00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:45.099
it this year. Make your own spinners for 40 bucks.

00:29:46.259 --> 00:29:49.619
You can go nuts. Make some for your friends,

00:29:49.740 --> 00:29:54.539
your kids. Give some out to children like I do

00:29:54.539 --> 00:30:00.380
at the lake. It's cheap. It's only pennies to

00:30:00.380 --> 00:30:03.720
make your own spinner. So, you know, get that

00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:06.920
tackle tool. It's a great little item. I mean,

00:30:07.039 --> 00:30:10.380
I like making my own baits. I'm learning how

00:30:10.380 --> 00:30:14.819
to tie flies and stuff like that. I think I'll

00:30:14.819 --> 00:30:17.180
learn how to fly fish. That's this year. So anyway,

00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:20.660
I hope you enjoyed this week's show. Thank you

00:30:20.660 --> 00:30:25.660
for tuning in and support Community Radio. Anyway,

00:30:25.740 --> 00:30:28.059
this is Mike Raffino from Terrible at Fishing.

00:30:28.410 --> 00:30:31.089
Tight lines and see me on my YouTube channel.

00:30:31.210 --> 00:30:35.990
Take care everybody That was terrible at fishing

00:30:35.990 --> 00:30:40.410
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00:30:40.410 --> 00:30:43.750
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00:30:43.750 --> 00:30:46.630
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