ABOUT US
Lures are custom made one at a time by Skip Smith. All of our lures are knot-less western red cedar, through wired with .043-320 stainless steel, 4x Owner Hooks, and hand tied buck tails on stainless steel tail hooks. Some lures are airbrushed, and others are hand brushed for custom one-of-a-kind finishes. We believe our lures are second to none, the finest custom lures available anywhere.
When I was about six or seven years old I had my first encounter with a striped bass. My great grandmother, Myrtle Mae was cutting its head off at the kitchen table. I can still see her pulling the guts out; them flowing onto the newspaper. Then promptly scooping them up and running to the garden with them, the whole time smiling. On her dresser was a picture of my great-great-grandfather John Havens, also known as the fish-man. He would take his horse drawn wagon to the Port Monmouth Ice House (N.J.), then to the dock which would later become the BELFORD SEAFOOD CO-OP. There he would meet the boats that had gone out that morning. He would buy their fish from them, and then go up-and-down the streets of Belford. Kind of like the ice cream man. Everyone just called him the fish-man. Back to the picture- Since I was a small child, not many days have gone by that I have not thought about that picture. In it he was holding two striped bass, they looked to be about sixty pounds each.
- We are proud members of the following organizations: Asbury Park Fishing Club Palm Beach Fishing Club