[rockhopper]

My point, it took someone,, just one person, to take the time, and the "brains" to come up with that weight, then they invested ten's of thousands of dollars, and years of their time, to get that weight accepted by wholesalers, and retailers, and finnaly consumers, they invested their life into it, just to bring out a different, and "better" weight, instead of just mass producing the same "OLD" designs that had been out there for years.

Mojo finnaly made it into the Bass Pro SHops stores and catolog, and they were selling like hot cakes,, selling so well Bass Pro, says heck we can have these made overseas with cheap labor,, not pay back the investemnt Mojo has had to and sell them cheaper,, next thing you know the Orders stop coming from Bass Pro,, no one called them, and told them, they just stopped, and the people at Bass Pro would not return the phone calls.

Bass pro had knocked off another product.

Personally I don't get that thrill feeling, I just "copied" something, nothing proud about that, heck any forger can copy anything, I feel "proud" when I'm guy that came up with something first, when that bit of gienus springs from me, then I made the first one, then I invested my time and money to get that product licensed to a company, and help that company get it into the hands of the fisherman , while I pay my rent with the procceeds.

Mojo's prices are coming down this year, I and other's convienced Larry he must do that, so more people will use his weights.

Don't let me hear your making your own Mojo Rock Hoppers, or Rig Savers and then bragging about it, maybe offering others the way to do it, it would do more than tick me off :-)

I convinced Larry to pay for the patents of these weights,, and they will issue shortly, with my name on the patent as the inventor.

You want thrill, you want to be proud, take a year or two, and with trial and error, and come up with a better design, than even me. I'll personaly make sure you get it licensed to a manufactuer