Whoever decided on the colors for those Orkie Drifters must have been blind or had never seen the real thing.

LOL

Did you see the new knockoff of Leland's beach popper, too?

Fish on...

Todd

Unfortunately........yes I did.

Lol. Perfect.

Douchebag move for sure. Not buying is the only way to stop them, If they are anything like the chinese coyotes they will disintegrate the first time you use them.Todd is right been going on since there was tackle to buy, SH didnt invent them just perfected some killer paint schemes. Otto's made em in the 50's & 60's, even a heavy casting model(gold one in pic) Martin and luhr Jensen as cohoe killers and coho kings and metric's respectively after that . Luhr Jensen was the king of rip offs,the list there was endless.



washington spoon and bait catalog from 1960

Todd is right about patents, it is extremely difficult to get one on a fishing lure if not impossible.

Several years ago I was in Islamorada, Florida and went to see a tackle shop that had the hot new leadhead jig.

When I saw the display, the leadhead was a knock-off of a one ounce Sebastes jig that they had dressed with bucktail. Obviously they had leadheads that they had a mold made from an original Sebastes jig.

Since I was the designer of the entire line of Sebastes jigs from 1/4 to 32 ounces and had hand carved the prototypes, there was no question in my mind about a rip-off. A small company like Sebastes couldn't afford litigation so it wasn't worth pursuing.

Actually the original jigheads we sold were from standard molds of traditional leadheads we purchased before I designed the custom leadheads.

I wish I still had those molds, but I sold my half of the business to my partner Fred Vander Werrf and he eventually sold the company to another party who ran it for a few years before he passed away.

Anyway, ifyou knowit is a rip-off,refrain from buying it and tell your buddies.

Thanks Sky-Guy.

Silver Horde owns those original dies for the Kohoe killers but uses a new die for production.

You are correct...many moons ago, Silver Horde bought the tools and started manufacturing the lures. Then they upgraded to tools to the current production die. Note the word "bought" also known as
"purchased".

Thanks for all your support on this. Kelly can't say too much right now
but really loves the support of the fishing community.......

There is zero chance that Silver Horde allowed SW to repackage their products... just look at the quality of that POS in the Sportsman's Warehouse package... that IS NOT SILVER HORDE QUALITY!!!

I don't know what you're talking about... that is a vision hook if I ever saw one



Seriously, it was a Dick move by sportsmen's...

The Morrisons have been so nice to me over the last few years. I have gone into their shop more times than I can count and they refer to me by name and talk to me about things all the time. Marilyn is a sweetheart and Kelly is awesome to talk to about local fishing tips and always has suggestions for me. I cant say enough good words about the family and their products.

I have, and will never purchase or support Sportsman's warehouse. I'm a Silver Horde supporter all the way!

I was in the shop yesterday when Kelly was talking to a few people about this. I was really bummed out to hear about whats going on. Their products have been under attack lately. With another local lure manufacturer (who shall remain nameless) and now SW. It's a shame really.

I talked to a couple of Silver Horde employees today. They are so appreciative of the reaction of the anglers to keep them employed.
They asked me to say THANK YOU for your support....

add me to the group of anglers that will not spend a penny at SW, and I'll talk to others about it. SW was marginal in my book to begin with for other reasons, this makes it real easy to spend my money elsewhere.

Not saying LJ didn't copy lures, but they bought out a whole bunch of companies (ie. Maxwell, Eddie Pope, Glen Evans, Abe & Al, Tony Accetta, etc.) and then produced them with the LJ label.

Patents are only good for 17years, I believe, and copywrites are good forever. So if it is not copywrited, too bad. They Zenith Electronics used to protect themselves was they copywrite the Schematics for their circuits. I think the paint patterns for their (SH's) lures could be copywrited.

Copyright does not last forever, but does last for a very long time (currently life of the author + 70 years in most cases). Trademarks can last forever, in theory. However, there are limitations on what can be protected by copyrights and trademark rights that would make it difficult to protect lure designs and paint patterns in most case (but maybe not all cases).

Maybe I should do an IP Law for Tackle Companies presentation...probably get some nice swag out of it.

As MPM mentioned earlier, trade dress covers "look and feel" but is extended often to places of business (the use of the color green and lay-out of a Starbucks for example) rather than products though it is possible to do so. Design patents can extend some protection where there is a combination of utility and design (boat hulls and the treads of shoes are common examples). Otherwise unattainable trademarks can extend to colors, shapes and designs but only if they have attained secondary meaning through continued use. This concludes your intellectual property primer.

The simple truth of the matter is that enforcing intellectual property is iffy in result except the guarantee of legal fees. I will say I did manage to score an HDS-7 out of a client once though...

Looks like its not just Sportsmans Warehouse. I would guess that now our friends overseas have made the dies they will be everywhere.

http://www.overstockbait.com/O-BAIT-35-Coho-Killer-Flutter-Spoon-UV-and-Glow-p/uvg_ck.htm

This happens all of the time! With almost every lure manufacturer. There are so many examples of this its crazy.

VERY TRUE....

Brad's is the worst offender