I don’t really do it for business, just friends if I feel like it. Mostly my own use, to get the costs down. Now that the sources for 3 for a dollar jigs has all but disappeared, got to do something. Jigs catch everything that swims, and I am not talking the $5 painted and gussied up ones, just the cheapo white ones with sometimes a red head, it’s all in knowing how to flip your jig ...
Crafts is a dying art, no one wants to spend the time anymore.
My church makes a food piece of its budget on the annual fair, including a lot of homemade crafts. When people figure out what this means, I think we can get a groundswell to demand its change.
More's the pity, because there are few things more gratifying than catching fish on tackle you made all by yourself!
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I suppose you could call it either "evolution" or "intelligent design optimization", but I started as a whole-hog bass fisherman - complete with broomstick-stiff "worm rods" and lines that could tow a Freightliner. And, I spent many hours, "playing 'tacklebox'" -- swapping lures from a tacklebox with so many fold-outs that I had to open it lengthwise of the boat. And I caught fish -- lots of 'em.
Then I discovered the beautiful, gin-clear stream on my F-I-L's place in the Texas Hill country -- and bought my first ultralight stuff for wade-fishing there.
One day out on the lake, the bass "developed lockjaw", so I picked up the UL to "play with the bream" I could hear snapping in the bushes -- and I started catching big bass!
The worm rods and bass tackle were in our garage when it burned -- and I have never missed 'em!
Nowadays, my "heavy" stuff uses 6-lb line, (which with a steady pull, can usually straighten a hung-up #6 hook) and I can about carry a day's worth of terminal tackle in my vest pocket. Even better, I've learned to make the spring of the graphite/boron rods do most of the casting work -- and I catch more fish!!!
Probably the best testament to my new "laid-back" fishing technique was the comment from a guy who was fishing the opposite side of the large lily pad patch where my teenage daughter and I were catching crappie:
" I bet you taught that young lady to cast so effortlessly. I've been watching, and I've just seen you make ten casts -- and hook nine fish -- without ever lifting your elbow off of your knee!"
That's a "fur piece" from my old days of flailing with that worm rod -- and setting the hook so hard I probably stretched the fish out a couple of inches! LOL!!