Awesome information from all - escpecially Carolina Mike and fishon-son. Two great takes on what to do. My brother and I have a small - very small - bait company that we would like to take to the "next level". What do we do? We cannot afford to protect the ideas, let alone have Zorn or Bass Tackle make commercial capacity molds. Then, to either buy the equipment, or have Carolina Mike shoot the baits for us, we can't afford either - as generous as the 1/2-day per color run is, we just can't do it yet. We have a strong local tackle shop/club following, I hate to scrap the idea of offering the baits nationwide, especially based on the local response, but they are labor intensive with the molds we have, 2-4 processes per bait, just for 1 hula type grub - not including labeling & packaging! Even with more molds, our capacity would not increase at the cavity capacity rate - if that makes sense.
We are currently supplying our local(state) shops/tournament guys, as fishon-son suggests. Just trying to figure out if it's worth pur
suing.
