Bait Tray's

[Capt. Brian Daley]

I though sensitive guys wear crocs


just kidding

all points well taking

[Tuna Taxi]

"If that much R&D was needed to be put into those bait trays, these manufacturers should stick to cutting lawns, or something else they can handle."

Sounds like an insult to me - maybe I am just a sensitive guy.

The way I see it, cookie pans are for baking cookies, and bait trays are for storing and elevating correctly brined ballyhoo, split tail mullets and other quality baits.

Let's get a cold one at Harborside this weekend and discuss it further. I am sure we can come to an agreement of some sort.

Sorry Alltackle, but you jumped on the wrong wagon. I was poking fun at the comment that the bait trays were expensive because of all the R&D that goes into them.

I understand business is expensive, but I also agree your math is a bit off. Either way, who cares. If someone wants to try and sell a product that costs too much to produce and has too small a market, then they need to understand that people will either do without or find an alternative. We don't owe a living to an American who chose a risky venture.

If I decide to try and compete with GM by building electric cars in my garage and trying to sell them for $250K, should I complain when people tell me I'm crazy?

Anyway, sorry you took offense. Seems like we've already used up too much bandwith on a bait tray. Good luck selling the trays, I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who want them.

[Capt-D]

Let's get a cold one at Harborside this weekend and discuss it further. I am sure we can come to an agreement of some sort.

As long as you bring one of those trays and I can do a little R&D

What time do you close tonight (OC), I need some 150 spro wind ons swivels and some hooks.

-D

[Bert Rodgers]

THAT WAS AWESOME.------IF YOUR WORRYING ABOUT SAVING MONEY, YOUR IN THE WRONG SPORT. I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE WILL GO TO ANOTHER SUPERMARKET ACROSS TOWN CAUSE CHICKEN IS 15 CENTS CHEAPER A POUND THERE, NOT REALIZING THEY JUST WASTED 5 DOLLARS IN GAS!!!

Nonsense. I guarentee there are far more of us who prioritize our fishing budgets just to stay in the game than there are who can spend whatever they want on as many goodies as they can get. I would love to have spreader bars with a dozen $20 lures on them, but I can still catch fish on bars with $3.00 tube squids. And things like $125.00 bait trays are definately in the unnecessary luxury catagory.

Don't get me wrong, if I could afford that stuff I would buy it.

Bert

[Shutterbug]

[QUOTE=alltackle;212465]I'm not offended, however, you should give some credit to the manufacturers who took a risk to contribute to our sport. Sure the food related pans are cheaper, but they are made for a huge marketplace versus the extremely small fishing tackle marketplace, and you cannot compare the price of a food pan and a purpose built bait tray for a specific fish cooler pan. The food pan is made in the millions, and the bait tray is made by the hundreds. (There were less than 10,000 HMS perits issued last year which is a good indicator for the size of the tackle market). The food pan people can spread their development cost over all the millions of pans they sell each year, and the bait tray guy have to spread it over hundreds of units.

The bottom line is that the people who make Carolina Bait Trays and TGM trays and any other bait tray are most likely not getting rich from the product, but instead, they have a love for our sport just like you do and their products are simply the result of their labor of love for the sport. They had the balls to jump in a produce something that works well, while taking on personal risk.

To insult them as I read in the thread is unwarranted, undeserved and unnecessary. I thought SFC was a different kind of forum free from the negativity found in most of the other fishing forums out there.

Maybe I was somewhat offended, I happen to know the Americans who are behind these products, but I will get over it.

Peace.

I'm not trying to insult anyone. It's basic economics with my post. If I can manufacture something for $20 instead of paying 5 to 7 times that, then I look at it as money in my pocket or fuel tank. Sorry you took offense, none intended.

[OffTheHookB&T]

Well, no offense taken here
I have used everything from aluminum foil to baking trays for baits. If it works, awesome, I respect any fishermen who can innovate and create their own, solution to a fishing issue, especially when it saves money. If it weren't for some creative fishermen we would still be running using bamboo poles, not that theirs anything wrong with that Even better is that some enterprising people have found ways to make a business out of this, like Offshore Innovations, Squidnation, Tournament Cable, and many, many others.
My opinion on the bait trays on the market, it's more a question of style. Some people go to Wal-Mart for their sneakers and some buy the latest greatest sneaker. Do they both do the same job? HECK YEAH
But one's got a touch more style

[Prometheus]

I'm curious, the Johnson-Rose Steam Table Pan is made with 18-8 Stainless Steel, 24 Gauge, in the 304 class of stainless.
http://www.ablekitchen.com/ProductDe...tCode=JR-58207

Could you please tell me what is used in the manufacture of the Carolina Bait Tray? It mentions "marine grade" stainless steel, is this 316 stainless?

[FinRazr]

Holy Crap Did this thread go off on a tangent.My big issue to begin with was the plastic trays every shop was starting to cary instead of stainless.