New Gibbs lures - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Pt.JudeJoe · 08-21-2006, 09:06 AM

......by the way

.....at the Habratory , there are 2000 or so needles of sizes from 1 1/4 oz. - 3 oz. drilled and sealed , painting starts next week .

piemma · 08-21-2006, 12:15 PM

BTW, After reading this thread I put a call into a friend of mine who is good friends with Dan Smalley, the owner of Gibbs Lures. I let him know about this thread so Dan could respond to the criticism or at least address the problem. If he doesn't know something is wrong, and many times the owner doesn't know an inferior product is going out the door, he can't fix it.

JohnR · 08-21-2006, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by piemma

BTW, After reading this thread I put a call into a friend of mine who is good friends with Dan Smalley, the owner of Gibbs Lures. I let him know about this thread so Dan could respond to the criticism or at least address the problem. If he doesn't know something is wrong, and many times the owner doesn't know an inferior product is going out the door, he can't fix it.

They know, they watch this site - specially when their stuff comes into play... Hmmm - now if I could find that Nastygram from 5 years ago (that's a joke by the way

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I'm not a Plugologist so I can offer no scientific or nuts and bolts breakdown of their products. The stuff seems better than that of a few years ago but is it up to par with some of the other local hitters? Not sure. Though I have before recieved plugs from smaller builders that for example have the wire not through the swivel. Very rare though and I have experienced this more (in the past) on the Gibbs than some of the small builders. Seeing that I have more of the small builders plugs than Gibbs - that says a little something. I have not purchased much of the way of Gibbs products in recent years.

I think it is a QC thing for the most part and these are (I imagine) smart guys so hopefully the turn can still be made for the better...

capesams · 08-21-2006, 04:12 PM

what do u do?...hope to sell to the 10,000 weekender's that[kinda] go fishing or worry about the 1,000 hardcore's...$$$ talk's so hardcore's walk.....what a waste of a good co. and wood.

Mike P · 08-21-2006, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by capesams

what do u do?...hope to sell to the 10,000 weekender's that[kinda] go fishing or worry about the 1,000 hardcore's...$$$ talk's so hardcore's walk.....what a waste of a good co. and wood.

Exactly. I've been telling everyone that has an in with those guys that they should sell them without hooks, consideing that 80% of those crappy Mustads will break off on the first fish anyway. But the 1000 hardcores will change the hooks anyway, whereas the 10,000 weekenders won't buy a plug without hooks.