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Post by Fishooked on Oct 16, 2009 23:23:15 GMT -4
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Post by 10tacle on Oct 19, 2009 7:21:50 GMT -4
 Well Ted, thats half true. I met the guy (Alex) on a trade show 3-4 yrs ago who is the inventor an designer of this lures. Formerly the guy made wobblers for Ugly Duckling, but it comes to a break (Ugly Duckling, Alex and Mosa I believe), so he starts to built his own lures. They were produced in a formerly republic of Yugoslavia, Serbia I believe and were made from impregnated balsa wood in special an difficult vacuum process and got a durable cast lexan lip. I've seen some 2 and 3 piece hand painted protos up to a length of 6-7inch, but he wouldn't sell or give away.  First the both types Goodie & Ruff Guy were sold here rarely in Europe too, but after the success in north America, they get their new own European style names. Check out: www.alexlures.com/I have a couple of the 1st editions in the old styled boxes for trout fishing. Very neat paint job and printing. IMHO. Dave's Lures is only the distributor for North America.
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Post by Fishooked on Oct 19, 2009 7:40:07 GMT -4
Wow, that's good stuff - and great looking baits too!
We need to make a gigantic list of lure links so we can all keep track of all of these..
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Post by walter on Oct 22, 2009 20:34:37 GMT -4
ugly duckling are quite easy to find around here, but not cheap. they cost even more than rapalas.
btw, in serbia and other nations there are a lot of small lure makers, usually craftsmen.
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Post by bacon on Oct 22, 2009 23:59:11 GMT -4
i stumbled onto a bunch of ugly duckling lures several years ago, a store had a box of them for $2 each, must have been a couple hundred of them in there, their out of business now, but i dont know if they ever sold that box or not, every time i was in there that box looked just as full as ever, couldnt give the things away. havnt seen much for ducklings before or since.
bacon
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