I gotta lighten the mood around here somehow :o I think most of you guys who feel strongly about this deal would all get along fine in person and although the thread has walked the line of what I usually put up with here, you guys are all entitled to your opinions and I believe that two interesting things that are already in motion will be accelerated by this discussion. The first is that even more people will enter the swimbait market with their own baits thinking that they can mfgr the same products for a lower price and the second is that existing bait mfgrs will see that $100+ lures are actually selling and they will either raise their own prices OR use a lower selling price as an advertising point. I think in the short term prices on swimbaits may go up but in the long term they will go down as people realize that actually making money in swimbaits sustainably is very difficult.

What's funny is that the number of unique visitors to the site in the last two days has been 20 to 30 more than any time in the past 2 months. Fishermen just have a way of finding controversy the way a puppy finds a bone! Wish I could generate some positive attention to the site... Anyone want to buy a T-Shirt while we're here?

http://www.cafepress.com/calfishing

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