Making your own baits!?

[goherd1111]

Hey folks, I was just wondering if anyone makes their own baits or has ever attempted to make their own baits. I have just recently began messing around with pouring my own plastics. I haven't yet bought any plastic in bulk I have just been doing repours (melting down old or used plastics). So far it has been alot of fun. I have purchased a mold and made a few of my own out of Plaster of paris. I went out to our farm pond this weekend and ended up catching a few bass on the frogs that I made. I haven't yet fished with the dragonfly, I am looking forward to trying it out. Here is a picture of some of my pours so far.

[KonaBoy]

I did once. I melted old baits in the backyard, and that was the end of that chapter Neighbours complained for a "few" days about our house stinking like burnt rubber. And they didn't turn out well.

[childers]

pretty cool. but the dragonflies need to be really light weight to work other than that nice. bw awesome lizard/worm

[m.t.hands]

i mainly make jigs, spinnerbaits, and buzzbaits

i have made plastics in the past and will be starting back up soon (i think), also have been thinking about making some crankbaits, if you ever do them and use cedar, which i have a good source of here, when sanding them wear a mask, cedar dust is very toxic[X(]

and i would like to start back building some rods

BTW, nice job on the baits

[childers]

why not just use balsa?

[m.t.hands]

balsa is fine, i was just making a reference to the fact that cedar dust is toxic, the advantages of cedar or basswood, from what i have seen, they are less boyant than balsa, any of the three will work fine

[childers]

just checking

[KonaBoy]

I've also made my own basic looking stick baits. (Bad pictures, but you get the idea )

[JoshKeller]

i once melted down a plastic worm to fix a crack on my old canoe that was taking on about 200 gallons of water a minute.[8D]

aside from wrapping my own rods, and pouring a few giant worms out of torn plastics, I usually just break donw and buy plastics.

[mallard stalker]

How do you melt and pour the plastics? Kona why haven't you shown the spinner?