Have not thought of these guys in a long time. Used to fish the screwlock weedless jig heads with Kalin Grubs. Are the Kalen Grubs still available? Checked on line and they have Kalin grubs at Bass Pro

I seriously considered not weighing in on this thread only because we consider ourselves to be a little out of the norm of aspirations for a small company. We don't aspire to ever get to a point where a machine will be needed to produce our products. So much so we no longer hand inject anything, strictly hand pour. I'm not going to shed a negative light on hand injection producers either, each to his own.

Our process alone doesn't allow us to produce the quantities needed to enter into a huge retail situation, if only I could buy an orchard of hand poured worm trees that I could harvest watermelon red from. Every worm I make goes through my hands at least 3 times in process, demold, de-flash (when I get in a hurry) and then packaging. Machines won't do this nor will it produce 30 of a color with a specific flake color.

Which leads me to this point, one of the mainstays of this industry is availability of products that we all have our confidence in, understandable. Brand loyalty is huge to a small company trying to carve out a niche for themselves. We understand this so much so we discontinued our craw in part do to this, but also because we respect those very people who we rely on to be customers. Case in point we received the "Cease and Desist" letter from Reaction Innovations. We pulled the product because we didn't want RI to sue us and then have to pay for their attorneys with anglers money.

Lastly, I'm just "arrogant" enough to believe I produce the best hand poured bait in Texas and in several other states but then "arrogance" is incorrect terminology. I call it confidence or believing in self, if I don't believe this way then what am I really doing and why? Money? yes and no, actually I get just as much satisfaction out of the kids down the street who score a few free worms telling me they caught fish on them at the local pond as I do from Bryan Thrift plugging our product. Might sound strange but those kids have to start somewhere, I just wish they'd ask and not steal them LOL.

My two favorite company owners that I've personally met and sat down with: Terry Oldhams & Mark Pack

Definitely check out SOB Lures. Bill makes some great spinnerbaits. You can't find a better tilapia spinnerbait for Falcon. He also does a great job custom painting cranks and spoons. Another plus, he sells Oldham jigs last time I checked, so you can check out two small companies on one website.

I figured a man that fished on the UT team would have said Pros Choice baits out of Round Rock.