Incheon Basser

Work on your designs and outsource. More expensive in the short term (small scale) way cheaper in the long term. You got to separate what you like from what sells. Full size tool cost 7-10k per shape/size MOQ is going to be as many pieces as the factory can make in an 8 hour shift per color. equals to about 12k for 8 colors per shape. Website cost, and branding about 5k Tradeshows, about 10k a year. Social Media about 1k in pay per click. Expect 10k a year in sales per shape for the first couple years. It's hard to make money just selling soft plastic.

Good plastics just had bad luck with their jigs. The mamba too

I have used them before. Had a few where the hooks just snapped off or the heads broke.

Stren,Berkley and Spiderwire Monofilament line comes off the same machine. Packed in the same machine and is developed by the same Product Inivation team. Who's email Address are all @purefishing.com. No one works for Stren. Stren is a brand nothing more. It's a fact. I do know 100% of what I am talking about. What's on the labels is marketing. Each Brand has a Brand Manager, But it is one company. I do not understand why you think you know more about it than a guy who worked there for 4 years. But hey I did what I could to educate.

I use silicon skirted micro jigs all year for bass. It's my Senko b

No one licenses anything to anyone. The Company is Pure Fishing. Pure Fishing's Brands are Berkley, Fenwick, Abu, Stren, and so on and so on. Pure Fishing is split into two sections. Consumables. Baits, Line, Terminal Tackle, 90% made at Spirit Lake Iowa. 10% made in China Durables. Rods, Reels. 100% made overseas. 30% made in the Pure Fishing owned and operated factory in southern China, Shakespeare and Pfluegar mostly. The rest outsourced. Office in Columbia 100% of the products are designed and developed by Pure Fishing Product Development Managers. Outsourcing of manufacturing is the number one most common business practice in the world. Show me a company who says the produce 100% in house and I'll show you a lying company. How do I know all this? I was a PF PDM from 2011 to 2015

Here are my hand tied jigs.

I really enjoy using smaller hook jigs. Fished on the right rod with the right line you never need to worry about straightening the hooks. And I don't use a weed guard. Use a 1/8 gammy round 25 with a 1/0. Tried the Keitech Mono guard too. But I miss the fina jigs I used in Asia.

Straight up Japanese style there. Definitely need a light action spinning rod for that.

What weight you throwing? I primarily use 1/8 ounce with a 3.2" trailer that weighs about 5 grams. I usually just pitch or underhand cast them so really only trying to throw them 40 to 50ft. I use a ML casting rod and seem to do all right. I love them for bass, specially fishing the edges of mats. I use a 3.2" trailer.

Obviously they come out of different molds and have different product managers. But QC is going to be pretty much the same. Doyo is a great factory. The owner is a control freak! Lol

How often do you fish them and what jigs do you use? Tuff to find a good brand stateside these days. Find I'm having to tie my own.

2/0 hook or smaller 3/16 oz or less.

How many of you guys fish Micro Jigs and what trailers do you use?

Hi Bob. Both good brands not tearing anyone down. Been to the factory several times. Not a big factory. Only one production line. Most components are Doyo IP for both brands. Cheers

Hi Zachary, Social Media presence. All that maters. How well you fish not important. Only contact companies you like to use. Buy their stuff promote the crap out of it and build your brand which is you and brands will come to you. Get noticed.

You know they are made in the same factory in Korea and quality control is therefore the same right?

It would take me years! Got garbage bags full.

What do you mean Pure Fishing doesn't manufacture their own baits? They have a factory in Spirit Lake Iowa and 90% of PowerBait and Havoc is made there. 100% of Gulp and all fishing line. Stren, Trilene FireLine and Spiderwire. All of their products are designed in house by their product managers and some products are made in sub factories which is normal. News flash 80% of fishing tackle manufacturing is outsourced. Correct! Only the one part needs to be made there. 99% of Made in Japan tackle is actually produced in China.

Trigger x has been discontinued. Rap aka is no longer perusing it.

In Japan they use baitcasting equipment for all finesse presentations. They call it "Bait Finesse" for example throw a 1/32oz small rubber jig with a 3" trailer on a 6'3" Light power Bait casting rod with 7lb line on a shallow spool Revo LTX (Japan version of the MGX but with magnetic brake) The key to this is the light power bait casting rod and the magnetic brake system on the reel. can throw just as far as a spinning reel but twice as accurate. Same goes for drop shots and neiko rigs.

Jewel jigs and Berkley Havoc bottom crawlers

No they have had test models out for months now. I think the first production models rolled out last month.

I think everyone goes through fazes don't they? I know in the two years I have been posting here there are big gaps in my attendance. I think it really has to do with content. I come and view the forums but don't see anything I feel like posting on. I think a lot of folks are like that. I would be willing to say that 60% of the active posters from when I first joined are no longer as active as they were back in 09.

I just got 3, 300 yard spools in 6, 8 and 10 pound test I'll let you all now if it's any good here in a week or so.