Meet and greet date changed

It looks like we are in for really bad weather this weekend, so we are postponing this Saturdays meet and greet. I am not sure what day we will choose just yet but it wont be too far away, probably within the next couple of weeks. Please check back here for the latest updates.

In need of an owner....

These brown baits are up for sale, they have no name other than brown bait. It's a small lot of 10 slim slugs and 5 calikillers that will be sold together. Price is $12 cash pick up, or $14.50 including shipping. If you are interested, please email me at tclures@hotmail.com and title subject "brown baits".

For local San Diegans....

For those of you who have made orders and followed through on your end, and showed up with your payment and to collect your order, thank you! Your honesty and commitment is appreciated.

Unfortunately, not everyone thinks that me making a ton of baits and driving around all over the place to meet them is a big deal. I have given the local people a chance to make orders without paying a dime until their order was ready. This is no longer the case. I recently made a post stating that I would honor cash/bait exchanges as long as the customer follows through with their end. Since that post it has happened 4 more times. I will no longer make baits on anyones word that they will show up at this place and this time. From now on all orders will be paid through paypal or payment can be made by cash/check/money order through the mail. The only other way I will meet up with locals is during our meet and greets which will be happening once every 4-6 weeks, or if they decide to travel to me wherever I am at to pay for their order upfront. All orders that are being picked up will take place either at Harbor Island in San Diego Bay, or at South Shores in Mission Bay. The only exception for baits being picked up is if the customer wants to travel wherever I am at, if I am available.

This might sound like a hassle, but I ask you to put yourself in my shoes and please understand how frustrating it is for me to spend hours making baits for a single sizable order, and then get the run around or no response again from that person, or to show up at agreed meeting location and wait forever and they never show up. It's plain rude and I am done with it.

I apologize to those who this may inconvenience. Please email me with any questions you may have about this issue at tclures@hotmail.com

THE NEXT MEET AND GREET

Saturday, February 26th between 9am-11am
Harbor Island in parking lot across from the Hilton Hotel

I will not have too many baits on hand for sale, whatever I do have will be sold at regular prices. Those who make pre-paid orders(cash only) will pay $1 less for each pack of baits. The meet and greets are mainly for people to come out and meet us, and to see what our products look like, and maybe get a little fishing in :) I hope to see you there!

A seperate contest in March!

For the month of March only, I will be rewarding one dozen swimgrubs to everyone who catches a legal halibut with swimgrubs.
Pictures must include a tape measurement and the bait visible to qualify, and pictures have to be emailed to me at tclures@hotmail.com, or uploaded on our facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/SwimGrub

The grunion are coming and the halibut will be all over the place, I am looking forward to seeing some good photos!

January 2011 Winner!

This nice calico bass was caught by Christopher Caaway using the razor clam swimgrub. This makes the third consecutive month the photo contests were won while using the razor clam swimgrub.

January's photo contest winner was a tough one to pick. There were a ton of nice looking bass caught and several of them were in the same size range. The only thing that really stood out was the fact that you dont catch too many legalish calicos from the shore, espescially quality ones such as the one pictured here.

Thank you to everyone who sent in photos, keep them coming! Just a reminder, though measuring your fish isnt required, if you can it would help me make my decision for a winner a little easier when there are so many to choose from.

Big spotties on the chew!

I am sure most of you are aware about the bigger spotties being caught lately in Mission Bay, and if you werent aware of it, now you know :) Every one of these grumps was caught with the black widow swimgrub, and for the last week every single night session has rewarded several people with quality bass like the ones pictured here. Now is the time so get out there and get some!

Other heads:

I haven't decided exactly what to call these yet... they don't precisely look like a football so I might call them barrel heads or egg heads but I plan on selling these 3/8 oz heads as a companion to the 1/4 oz fish heads. The nice thing about this style head is it will prevent the plastic from laying on it's side when you drag it on the bottom and unlike a conventional football head you get big eyes.

These heads are also much simpler to powder paint since they don't have eye sockets to fill up with paint like on the 1/4 oz fish shaped heads. When I begin to sell them they will definitely be offered painted from the get go.

However, they aren't for sale yet. I just wanted to give you guys a sneak peek.

Also don't forget the meet and greet on the 15th!

Updated pie chart

Rather than make a chart with all 20 patterns, I combined all the patterns that caught less fish than the squid pattern and put them under "others".

Leadhead update:

Just a heads up:  I've switched eye styles to a silver cat's eye for now.  I think they look really cool.  Eventually I plan on offerering several different colors and styles of eyes so you can customize your leadhead but for now they are all going to have this eye.

Also pictured is one with a weedguard.  Kevin actually posted these for sale but I don't really want to sell them with a weedguard until I have them dialed in in regards to the fiber thickness, length and durability. 

The weedless jigheads are really my ultimate goal, though.  I was having incredible success using the 1/4 oz strike king bitsy bug jigs with the skirts taken off.  They really let you get in the eelgrass.  However, I didn't care for the hooks, head shape or how easily the eyes fell off.  So that's when I really decided that I could make a better product.  I actually plan on making two different versions of the weedless jigheads: one will have a light weedguard for the bay and then I also want to make one with a stiffer weedguard for the heavy kelp.  And, of course, I also want to have different fiber colors available besides just clear. 

Hats and shirts--

T&C Lures T-shirts and hats......I get asked this quite often actually-
How can I get one or the other or both? If anyone is serious about ordering a shirt or hat I will make one big order only for those who pay upfront for them. $15/hat white or tan, $12/shirt white only(2x +$2).
So, I will take orders for shirts and hats until Sunday January 16th, I will make the order on Monday the 17th. The order will take approximately 3 weeks for delivery. Once the order is made there are no refunds. This may not come up again, if it does it wont be anytime soon... So please serious requests only. I will only accept cash in person, or paypal for this order.

Please email me at tclures@hotmail.com if you have any questions.