making and selling your lures

[soswine]

if they insist on paying you. tell them to buy you a soda...

Or a new boat:D

[PBUG2009]

with a truck to pull it...might as well go all out

[Fatman]

I've always traded mine. I've got enough hooks to outfit 100 guys in jigs and I don't have them poured yet, but does that stop me from picking up more NOPE!!!!!!!!

I got into the fly tying/fishing bug and it's all I did for 3 1/2 years. When that urge to pour jigs came I was really low on supplies and the costs had gone WAY UP!!!!!!! especially when you buy things by the 1000.

Fatman

[snake River]

you make a lot of friends if you give away your jigs. Course you might make a lot of enemies if they fall apart.

[shipahoy41]

you need to factor in your materials and your TIME! I sell my crappie jigs for .99 cents each.

We do not mention prices on the forum. That is what the business directory or the PM is for.

[skiptomylu]

i usually just give them away but i have some older friends that insist on paying me and im just not sure what to tell them

Then show us your work and it will be easier to say. I tie and sell lots of jigs, but the price matches the material cost and difficulty or how long it take to tie them. So show us and I can give you a better idea as can some of the others here, but very hard to say without seeing.

Skip

[PBUG2009]

but watching you on that video....shoot skip i bet you can tie 2 a minute.....lol

[GCD]

i usually just give them away but i have some older friends that insist on paying me and im just not sure what to tell them

If you were going to give them away anyway, just tell the "old timers" to pay you what they're worth to them... even if they give you a nickel apiece, you're still money ahead.... but I find people are more generous than you would be if you let them put the price on something that they want.

[PBUG2009]

good point gcd

[crappie josh]

im in the sweet 16 jig swap so skip u will be reciving one of my jigs my camara isnt real good or i would put pictures up ive gotten a lot of good info from yall in the past and so thats what im going take some of the advice from yall in this topic i would rather trade jigs with people any how its more benficial to me in the long run any how and plus never been good in marketing anyhow untill this post never actually knew what to tell people when they ask me how much for my products from my hobbby