Many others besides you have learned this lesson, there are no secrets in china, as soon as you submit your design they start marketing it to bigger names with more money. I know a gentleman that was actually having a product produced in china and all of the sudden he was told that they could no longer produce the bait, a few months later one of the big companies came out with the exact same bait, I mean it was exactly the same bait and guess what it said on the bag, you got it, "made in china". That is the reason soft plastics are slowly coming back to the U.S., there is no honesty and you get poor quality and its almost impossible to send them back, when it comes to soft plastics there is something to be said for made in America.