Hi. This may be a dumb question, but could anyone give me any insight on if it would be possible to use both hard and soft plastisol in one bait? I was looking to pour a fluke with a hard hose and a soft body to make nose hooking more durable. I know it might be easily done in an open pour mold, but can it be done in an injection mold? Has anyone done this? Thanks

I’m sure it can be done.  If you have a multi cavity mold it may be difficult.  You might practice by using two different colors so you can get a quick idea of how it works.  I just use medium plastisol and haven’t had any problems with nose hooking.

I did it years ago in an open pour.  I used a super soft belly and a medium top.  It poured fine and held together but it stiffened up the baits.  Manns made a bait years ago called the hard nose which was exactly what you are trying to do. 

I went as far as a senko formula belly and regular top for weight.  It worked good too.

Why not make the entire bait hard? A fluke really doesn’t have much action other than gliding. I don’t think it’s going to make any difference. Salt water flukes are hard and they catch fish. YMMV

I have some Mann's Rhino hard head frogs. Hard noses and soft bodies

 

You can try pouring the bait and then dip the head in harder plastic? 

 

Allen

Yeah, people mix colors all of the time.  Mixing hardness would be the same principle.  You can either use injection molds or open pour, you just have to have a plan for how much to pour of each.