I like plugs, but this is whack!

[Tagger]

$325 ... material cost $5 apiece to make ... labor ? ,,, nice case .. must be glass eyes . huh ?

[stiff tip]

W.C. FIELDS ONCE SAID.......A SUCKER IS BORN EVERY MIMUTE..P.T. BARNUM SAID THERES AN ASS FOR EVERY SEAT...OBTW WHO IS THIS DUDE?????? HE SHOULD FISH THE CANAL W/ THEM PURRTY LURES

[Tagger]

Originally Posted by stiff tip

OBTW WHO IS THIS DUDE?????? HE SHOULD FISH THE CANAL W/ THEM PURRTY LURES

and get his butt kicked by Left Hook ... casting and catching !

[wader-dad]

Me and the other one percenters need stuff to buy.

That being said, The guy is a SOL builder and He has plugs that I do not see Scott putting out. I think Orvis is making around $150

[JohnR]

Couple things

• They do look Boogerish but that layout is a very popular layout
• Who is Larry Schmid? I don't recall seeing the name over the transom here but I may have heard of 1/10th of there guys out there doing this stuff.
• They have three 5 star ratings on Orvis that looks somewhat spammish to my spidey senses. Each review posted over a three week period, have only made recommendations on that one product. So my Spidey Senses would say that is is possible, perhaps even likely, one/some was put up in an effort to validate the plug.

These may be the best custom lures out there - I honestly don't know one way or the other and have never used them.

[numbskull]

Originally Posted by JohnR

These may be the best custom lures out there - I honestly don't know one way or the other and have never used them.

Spoken like someone who has not seen Grapenuts' or ProfM's stuff.

In fairness to Mr Schmid, selling his work as art is a different market than selling them for fishing. Either way, the price shocks me.

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by numbskull

Spoken like someone who has not seen Grapenuts' or ProfM's stuff.

Not where I was going at all. I see significantly exceptional builders out there - including these guys (and your stuff doesn't exactly suck ) - but my point was a 300x400 picture on the innernets means diddlly squat one way or the other as to what they are or are not.

What I probably should have said was: These may be the best custom lures out there - but I suspect not - I honestly don't know one way or the other and have never used them.

Originally Posted by numbskull

In fairness to Mr Schmid, selling his work as art is a different market than selling them for fishing. Either way, the price shocks me.

Yep.

[fishbones]

Originally Posted by numbskull

In fairness to Mr Schmid, selling his work as art is a different market than selling them for fishing. Either way, the price shocks me.

Attaching the Orvis name to them surely has something to do with the extremely high price.

[Swimmer]

Originally Posted by JohnR

Couple things

• They do look Boogerish but that layout is a very popular layout
• Who is Larry Schmid? I don't recall seeing the name over the transom here but I may have heard of 1/10th of there guys out there doing this stuff.
• They have three 5 star ratings on Orvis that looks somewhat spammish to my spidey senses. Each review posted over a three week period, have only made recommendations on that one product. So my Spidey Senses would say that is is possible, perhaps even likely, one/some was put up in an effort to validate the plug.

These may be the best custom lures out there - I honestly don't know one way or the other and have never used them.

Fish have to swim by them first to even have a shot at being a fishy lure. I agree, looks boogerish, .....it does make me want to use some of the hundreds of dollars of feathers and deertail on my siwahses though.

[b-ware]

Originally Posted by Tagger

and get his butt kicked by Left Hook ... casting and catching !

Excuse me!!!!!!!!!! Ca-Neel's out fish them all!

[JackK]

I saw that the other day while thumbing through the holiday gift catalog on the throne. I think I busted an o-ring when I saw the price.

Initial reaction was disbelief, but then I realized, what a brilliant business move. He's been selling on the other site for a while, and probably doing OK... But contacting Orvis (or any other high-end outdoor dealer) with a high-priced plug set is something that I haven't seen done before. Figure he's making a good chunk of change on it. Good for him.

Who cares if they work or not, I'm not buying it, but some people will. Imagine if BM did this? With one-offs? The sets would probably sell for twice that.

Now who is going to get into touch with LL Bean?