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Rubber Chicken Lures ®
" I rolled my Cohiba from one side of
my mouth to the other, looked back across the boat to my man from Ohio.
Guy’s paying me $500 a day for a tan. I looked up the other side of the
boat to my tackle box, the ugly plastic one with Ron Jon stickers all
over it. People ask me what's inside, I tell 'em flare guns. Flare guns
are in the wheelhouse. That box was where I kept the sure thing. And
now, three days gone and no big picture fish to speak of, I needed a
sure thing" - from 'Tales Of The Rubber Chicken' by Capt.
Christopher Garlington
THE BEGINNING
It all started when we lost a big name $ 50 trolling
lure to a shark. Actually, we had a pesky bonito on the line and this
big thrashing shark took bonito, lure and all, never to be seen again.
It was not our first instance of loosing an expensive
lure to a fish, but this one got us thinking. Why was the lure so
expensive? It looked like a simple plastic head lure with no remarkable
attribute. Could we find a manufacturer overseas that could provide us
with good quality lures at a reasonable price? We knew that after taking
the marketing hype and the expensive advertising away from the high
priced lures, we had nothing but simple and time proven designs made the
same way since the 70’s when the modern trolling lures came of age in
Hawaii and Australia.
After a search and help from our overseas friends, we
found half a dozen companies that not surprising, made lures for the big
Hawaiians and other fancy names in the lure business. We tested samples
from all of them and eventually reduced the field to one supplier. This
family owned company was willing to work with us in developing the
changes we wanted and was able to produce a consistent quality product.
THE RUBBER CHICKEN NAME
An old captain told me that back in Hawaii and before
the modern trolling lures, the charter captains would take all kind of
items; from old shoes, belts, caps, and rubber chickens and make marlin
lures out of them. It seems like one of the most effective trolling
lures they found was the rubber chicken.
In the spirit of those old adventurous souls, we
named our line of lures Rubber Chicken because it proves you do not have
to spend a mint to buy an effective lure. You could just buy a
Rubber Chicken or two and be set to conquer the oceans.
That is our story and we are sticking to
it
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