Fishing Plastic: How to Make Plastic Fishing Baits
How to make plastic fishing baits is one of the easier tasks when it comes to fishing tackle making. It doesn't require a lot of tool, and the items required in order to make them are comparatively affordable such as liquid plastic. Once these items are acquired you can make soft fishing plastic worms and other fishing plastic lures for pennies a piece.
The most costly part about how to make fishing plastic lures is getting a mold. Molds are used to speed the complete process up and they make a more uniformed fishing plastic worm. You merely pour the melted plastic inside holding the mold at an angle to insure the mold occupies from bottom to top that way you do not get any air bubbles inside your fishing plastic worms. Then you let the mold sit to cool so that the plastic congeals, then taking out the fishing plastic worm cautiously place them inside a small container of water to complete cooling down and curing. Adding things like glitter etc are ways you can jazz up your own home-brewed fishing lures.
But what if you don't want to bother with purchasing a fishing plastic worm mold? Can you still make soft fishing plastic lures? How to make fishing plastic fishing' 'angling lures without a commercialised mold is not that difficult to do. Here's how I approach constructing a mold from basic Plaster of Paris. The first step is to simply create the two halves of the mold. You can use anything you like to hold the plaster, aluminum foil, small cardboard boxes, pie plates etc. The trick is to let the 2 halves partially set before actually producing your mold. I like to let my molds set for about 30 minutes to an hour depending on the thickness of the plaster.
The following step in how to make fishing plastic fishing lures is to use a master copy worm. Now a master copy worm can be anything really, the easiest is to use a fishing plastic worm from your tackle box or make one from modelling clay, either way works. If you do choose to use a fishing plastic worm from your tackle box make sure as you set the fishing plastic worm into half of the mold to align the seam on the fishing plastic worm with the top of the plaster otherwise you'll finish up with 2 seams in your new fishing plastic fishing lure. One from the master and one from your newly made mold.
Ok before setting the master fishing plastic worm inside one half of the mold it is important to coat the fishing plastic worm in either some Vaseline or vegetable oil. The purpose here is so that the fishing plastic worm doesn't bind plaster once it is fully set. Now cautiously set the fishing plastic worm into the mold halfway. Once again with attention to any seams that may exist on your fishing plastic worm.
Next we need to make adjustment pins in the mold so that it will line up the way we want when it comes time to pour in our melted fishing plastic. The most simplified way here is to use some finishing nails I like to use about 3 and set them into the semi set mold. Then put the other half of the mold on top, clamp it together and let it set overnight to insure the plaster fully sets.
All is not done yet, there are still a couple steps yet to do in how to make fishing plastic fishing lures. Now after we have got rid of the master fishing plastic worm and the plaster is fully set you need to cut a sprue channel so that you have somewhere to pour in the melted plastic. Finally we need to seal the mold. Plaster is porous and even if it's fully set you will have all kinds of little leaks inside the mold if you do not take the precaution to seal your mold. Any kind of epoxy or mod podge will work. Don't get carried away just a light coat will do. Now our mold is finished.
As you can see how to make fishing plastic lures isn't that hard and there are imaginative ways we can get around the more expensive parts to making fishing plastic worms by making our own molds. There are a few other pointer to make acknowledgment and you should be able to pour out your fishing plastic worms without any trouble, and that is prior to pouring the melted plastic into the mold, coat the insides lightly with some vegetable oil or Vaseline just so its easier to remove the finished product.
