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Fish or Drink Bait
Fark linked up this rather interesting recycling project:
Norm Price is on a crusade that has two goals: Help fellow anglers catch more fish, and recycle millions of discarded beer bottle caps.Price is the Canadian inventor of the bottle-cap lure, a beer bottle cap pinched together with tiny ball bearings inside, and a hook attached to one end. The rattle of the lure's steel bearings, and its shiny, colorful finish, can cause an unsuspecting lunker to strike faster than an angry Teamster, he said.
6 for $35 no less. See, recycling is easy if you can make a buck on it. He does sound a little quirky otherwise, but hey, what fisherman doesn't have character?
Well, Happy here needs to realize he's over-charging like hell. I can get the Lindy Little Joe 30 Piece Fuzz-E-Grub Crappie/Panfish Kit for $11.99. ( http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/product/index.jsp?productId=936272&cp=716957.716958.562533&parentPage=family ). If I can get 30 lures for roughly 1/3 of the price, he's just too high. I'm all for recycling and all, just not while getting screwed in the process...
Posted by: ron on October 25, 2004 09:24 AMWhich is, of course, the beauty of markets. Nobody's making you, and if enough people think it's too expensive, then his business goes down the tubes.
However, having actually walked through a Bass Pro Shop this year, I can say that people who fish are quite willing to spend a lot of money on all sorts of flashy toys just to catch a bass.
Posted by: scott on October 25, 2004 09:37 AMoh, hell yes they are. however, if you catch the right lake (Lake Winnepasaukee, NH), all it takes are some very inexpensive chartruese grubs, some polarized sunglasses, and 2 minutes of work and you can start reeling them in.
Poor bastards - not they ever did anything to me and I kept putting steel hooks through their lips.
Posted by: ron on October 25, 2004 09:56 AMHey come on guys. I am using Rosco Snap Swivels and split rings. Nothing but the top of the line Mustad Hooks. We have a special machine for punching and bending without any problems of ripping out. If you want to buy in bulk without the packaging and printing and the Students help that are doing assembly I will send you some raw units soon. Sure I can have these as well as the other stuff you buy that is made in the Orients. I dont want to have these made off shore. I make .50 Cents a unit after the distributors... wholesales.... and retailers. They make 2 bucks off the Bottle Cap Lures. So you say a fin is too much. Not only that I have to pay people to collect these caps. Sheesh
No wonder noone ever though of recycling caps.
Posted by: Norm Price on October 27, 2004 09:11 PM