Ambush Craw

Just a short post this time to show the new "Ambush Craw" mold that I recently finished and poured today. This is a original design by me, with a little influence from some cool looking worms currently on the market. It is a approximately 6" in length. This sample was done is a slightly darker than normal watermelon with small and large black flake.

Current project

Currently working a new mold, this will be a flipping craw bug, approximately 5 1/2" inches long. solid body worm. We use this type of worm in the delta for fishing the weeds and toolies. This will be my 3rd working mold and I think I have a good runner and gate design that works well for this particular type of plastic.

My "Delta Hog" has seen a little success, I had customer purchase 1 worm for a trial run, and turned around
and purchased 18 more then next week. gonna be adding a counter on this page to keep track of total sales, lol, hopefully I an retire soon.

I also worked on perfecting some color recipes this week:

Red watermelon:
4oz plastic
16 drops watermelon
4 drops black melon
1/4 tsp small red flake
1/4 tsp medium black flake
1/2 tsp salt

Green Pumpkin:
4oz plastic
16 drops watermelon
32 drops pumpkin
1/4 tsp large red flake

I love the Delta

After getting skunked the week before soaking bait in the Suisun sloughs trying to catch a big striper, my father and I tried to redeem ourselves Tuesday morning in the delta.

The day started very slow, the tide was very low and still going out me we got on the water at 730am. We hit a couple of the usual spots with no success, we even tried a couple random spots, also with no luck, but I was convinced the low/slack tide was to blame for the slow fishing. We decided to return to a very familiar spot for me, a spot we call "the rock wall". It is a very long stretch of riprap bank of the deep water channel.

Soon as we got to this spot, the tide changed and was on its way in. Also the water clarity was totally different in a good way. Second cast with a 3/4 ounce "RAT-L-TRAP" produced a nice little black bass, and our spirits we instantly raised when a second black bass smashed a spinner bait in about 5 foot of water just 2 casts later. This rock wall was definitely the ticket today. We ended up catching 4 decent black bass, 1 keeper striper, and get this a very nice salmon. What an awesome day it ended up being.

I also got a little work in today and poured a bunch of delta hogs and sinkos in a new color, motor oil with red flake. I messed with the recipe a little by adding some green color to darker it a little. Below are the results.

I hope to have a new craw mold finished this week and some new worms on the market soon.

Very busy

Haven't had a lot of time to post anything the last couple of weeks, but better late than never. I made a small modification to the plunger in my hand injector and was very eager to try it out. I made a taper on the plunger to match the taper in the backside of the nozzle so that the plunger would shut off on the nozzle so that there would not be a space there for the plastic to cool and cause me to have to clear this obstruction after each shot.

I also was able to complete my design for a 3 cavity 2 piece injection mold for my "SENKO" worm. A 6" worm that we hook weedless when fishing in the delta, that the big bass love,

I decided to try a recipe called
"La craw".

8oz liquid plastic
30 drops
3 drops red
Blue, red, and copper flake to taste

I really liked they way this color turned out, and I was very happy with the outcome overall. I started with a little more plastic this time, because I wanted to practice my technique more and also wanted to produce a few more worms since I knew I was going to get a chance to fish this week. I wanted to get some on eBay also.

Went fishing with one of my oldest friends, Brian, it was good to see him out on the water both of us enjoying one of our most favorite hobbies. He has been going through some tough times lately, but he is always positive and keeps moving forward. Things can only get better for you Brian, keep our head up bud. ❤

The weather did not cooperate with us, 30-40 mph winds made it very difficult to fish. However we did catch 3 fish on spinnerbaits and 1 on a worm, overall it was a very brutal day of fishing.

Below are the pictures of the new mold , the new worm, the "Delta hog" in this new color, and in the water in the delta.