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How to Pour Two Color Soft Plastic Baits

If you want to learn How to Pour Two Color Soft Plastic Baits, you’ve found the right place! A lot of anglers have learned how to make their own soft plastic baits, but without some experienced guidance it’s not always easy to learn How to Pour Two Color Soft Plastic Baits.

At the end of this article is a great video that will walk you through the steps. In the meantime, here is some info to lead into that video and get you prepared to pour your own two color soft plastics baits.

The Advantages of Making Your Own Lures

One of the great things about pouring your own soft plastic baits is that you can make the custom colors that you know will work for you. This also allows you to experiment with new colors and test them on your local lake.

You can do an endless amount of testing and tweaking in order to figure out what works best for you under any conditions you encounter.

Pouring Two Colors Can Be Intimidating at First

For many, using a two color bait is critical to getting bites. Pouring a single color is super easy. But learning How to Pour Two Color Soft Plastic Baits can be a bit intimidating.

By the time you finish this article and the video below, you’ll no longer be intimidated, and you’ll know what it takes to know How to Pour Two Color Soft Plastic Baits.

The secret to making it as easy as possible is in using the dual injector. This tool will make creating two-color baits incredibly easy and painless. The dual injector is used with a blending block that allows two colors of soft plastic to be injected into your mold at the same time. This saves a ton of work and makes the process very easy!

The hardest part, which isn’t very hard at all, will be choosing the two colors that you want to work with! And as we mentioned above, you can experiment and tweak to your heart’s content until you get the colors just right.

And, please be sure to use all of the necessary protective equipment to prevent burns and inhaling fumes from the hot plastic. Your hands and lungs will thank you 🙂

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How to Make Soft Plastic Swimbaits

If you fish with swimbaits, you should learn how to make soft plastic swimbaits yourself.

As with making any kind of lure yourself, if you learn how to make your own soft plastic swimbaits, it will save you money and give you the opportunity to make baits that are exactly what you want. You will no longer be limited to what’s available from retailers.

Additionally, you will be able to custom create colors that you can’t buy. This comes in handy when you want to “match the hatch” on a specific lake and, and duplicate the look of a certain type of baitfish. Many times this will trigger bites that you would not otherwise be able to get.

Many people begin pouring their own soft plastic lures as a hobby, but it quickly becomes an obsession! It can be addictive once you get started 🙂

For today, we’re going to focus on how to make soft plastic swimbaits, so let’s get back to that topic!

The video below is a great tutorial, showing just about everything you’ll need to know to make these baits successfully.

The video creator is using the 3.5 inch Ripper swimbait mold, which is part of the Do-It Essentials Mold series. This is a great mold. It’s high quality, and it just plain works!

When you click that link above, scroll down to find the 3.5 inch Ripper swimbait (Model 014). It’s an awesome swimbait that flat out catches fish.

Unlike the mold used by the video creator, the mold we linked to above is a 3-cavity mold, which will speed things up considerably when it comes to pouring larger numbers of swimbaits in a short time.

Also, below the video we have listed all of the items you’ll need to pour your own soft plastics, including some of the basic equipment and safety equipment as well.

As with anything, be sure to wear the necessary safety gear, to prevent getting burned or breathing in large amounts of fumes when pouring soft plastic baits. Safety always comes first!

So, now that we’ve got all of that out of the way, give the video below a watch and be sure to take note for later. We promise that you will want to do this after watching!

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