sykofish

I pour my own as a hobby. Its great making your own baits and experimenting with colors and styles. I fish a lot of clear water here in the N.W. Hand pours seem to make a difference on tough days.

I have hand poured thousands of worms over the years. But I am not sure why you are getting air bubbles, I have never seen that before. I have purposly agitated the plastic as much as I can to try and get bubbles in the plastic so that they would float. When your pouring two colored baits, are the two layers coming apart? Is that the problem your having?

I dont want to advertise, but there are a bunch of companies that offer everything you need. M-F manufacturing Lure- Craft Those are 2. If you want more info, send me a private message. I have been pouring my own PLASTIC baits for several years. FYI- There is no such thing as a rubber worm! They are made from a type of plastic.

[quote author=mac7373 I saw from your profile you live in Warren, that's Derek Anderson country (Scappoose), you must be a Beaver?

mac7373, sounds like you used to fish Hagg lake. That place is a zoo most times. I always try to encourage everyone to practice! Never get in someones face at the ramp, try walking over and offering to help. Offer suggestions and try and be patient. Not everyone wants to listen or be helped, but most times it will hurry them along anyway. jagrrich, your half way there. Keep practicing and you will get the hang of it. Sometimes the best thing you can do is go to a busy ramp and watch others. Try going to a tournament and watch others load there boats at the end of the day. It has always amazed me here in the N.W. how 50 bass boats can be launched and loaded in the same time it takes 100 salmon boats to simply launch. >

I have been making my own hand poured worms for about 5 years now. I currently have over 100 different colors, and 12 different molds that I use. I will admit to only using about 10 diferent colors in 4 or 5 different styles, but it's a lot of fun constantly experimenting.

N.W. Oregon. I grew up fishing for salmon and steelhead on the Oregon coast, even guided for them in Alaska and Oregon full time for 10 years. But now 90% of my fishing is for smallies on the Columbia and Willamette rivers. I still love to salmon fish, but bass fishing has got in to my blood to the point I sold my salmon boat and bought a bass boat several years ago. I dont regret it one bit.