A forum community dedicated to hunting and fishing enthusiasts in the Michigan area. Come join the discussion about safety, gear, tackle, tips, tricks, optics, hunting, gunsmithing, reviews, reports, accessories, classifieds, and more! It's that time of year and I'm getting ready to make an order from Sportsmen's Direct for terminal tackle.

Understanding the Context

Anyone have other favorite shops with websites I should check out? Looking for jig heads, plastic, and stingers. Rather support local shops over the big box or Amazon. GR Sport Show is...

Key Insights

Detroit Custom Tackle, making RJT's jigs, is still in business and available at a few local merchants. BP station, 9 and Jefferson M&M Bait And rumored to be available downriver soon too, and the website is up but catalog suspended (for now). A forum community dedicated to hunting and fishing enthusiasts in the Michigan area. Come join the discussion about safety, gear, tackle, tips, tricks, optics, hunting, gunsmithing, reviews, reports, accessories, classifieds, and more! Explore Our Forums My favorite painter of custom Raps is Hawkeye Custom Tackle out of Iowa.

Final Thoughts

I've ran some of his customs for 100s of hours on the handline, which can beat up and ruin custom lures pretty quickly. i just found the site for blood run tackle today and they offer the floating mono in flame, hi vis yellow, ocean blue, clear and nat green. looks like they offer some additional products that you pinners may be interested in, along with trolling & ice fishing lines. plus they are a MI based company. Go check out Sportsmen's Direct on YouTube. John does awesome reports of what's biting on lake st clair every week.

There is also the store you can go to near lake st clair. 38989 Jefferson Ave, Harrison Twp, MI 48045. Store has tons of great tackle and fishing products. Traverse Bay Tackle did not go out of business.