Member profile: Jrodscustomtackle

[DarkSkies]

I wanted to make sure people were able to see some of the stuff our newest member Danielle of Jrodscustomtackle is selling. She has lots of different rigs, jigs, and sweet looking lead jigs for all kinds of fishing. Her link to her web page is listed here. This way it will be open to people other than our members.

For anyone else who wants to know more, why not contact her and ask her any questions you might have?
http://stores.shop.ebay.com/JRODS-Tackle-and-More

email: shytkickers137@aol.com




She's friendly, answers all her e-mails, and has a very good reputation on e-bay. The prices seem very reasonable. I haven't used any of her stuff yet, but I might try to get some so I can write about it more. :thumbsup:

Here are just a few pics of the many things she sells:

[DarkSkies]

http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/picture.php?albumid=1&pictureid=4



Background and Personal Info....

Danielle from jrods comes from a long line of fishermen and fisherwomen. She's been fishing since she was 3 years old!!

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She grew up with her family in Long Island, where they fished Moriches Inlet all the time. Her Dad was an avid fisherman, and made some plugs, and tied his own teasers and flies. She has great childhood memories of fishing Moriches and some Long Island back bay areas.

Then she met John, the man who was to become her husband. She found him to be as crazy about fishing as she was, and it was a match made in heaven!! :heart:

They married soon after (between fishing ;)) and moved to Pennsylvania where there was more work for John and the real estate prices were a little cheaper.

John got hurt and became disabled. It was tough to run their household, and bills and expenses piled up. Danielle, always the resourceful problem-solver, decided to see if she could use her love of fishing to create a business.

She started this business in her home, at first tying and creating fluke and bottom fish rigs, using the lessons she learned from her Dad when she was small.

John, who couldn't do any of the work because of his increasing disablilty, nonetheless enjoyed giving his wife advice, and it's probably this shared love of fishing that helped their marriage to survive this difficult emotional and financial time. :thumbsup:

Fishin!!
Danielle loves to fish when she can get out with her husband. Growing up and until she moved to Pa, her favorite places to fish were Shagwon Point at Theodore Roosevelt State Park, Hither Hills to Montauk on the South Shore, and some other spots on the North Shore.

Any woman who can fish these rocky areas deserves some respect, at least in my book!! :clapping: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Her favorite fish to catch is bluefish because of the ferocious fight they put up. Her biggest bluefish was a 16lb monster!

This girl can fish, guys!! :wow::thumbsup::clapping:

[DarkSkies]

just a few

http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/picture.php?albumid=1&pictureid=6


Combination Set! 1-Herring Jig, 1-Fish Jig, 1- Butterfly Jig



Business Development and Philosophy:

Development
Danielle and her husband met a guy who sold jig molds, started making them, and got a lot of positive response from customers.

She started making these lead jigs, and worked hard to figure out the best way to paint them, what colors to use, and how to make the paint last long and not to chip off. Shes the one slaving over those melting pots to melt the lead and remove the impurities. How many women do you guys know that can handle a job like that?

Lead & Safety: She has her whole work area vented for the lead fumes, and a state of the art spray booth to spray the best and most durable finish.
"I'm a researcher" - when she gets a little info about how too improve her products, she's on it right away, always trying to deliver the best quality product possible.



Obstacles
"Lots of Brick Walls" Danielle has run into many obstacles. Because she's a woman, many people don't believe she can handle the demands of making her products, and are sometimes short-sighted in how they view her.


Many say: " Oh come on, a woman can't make those rigs and jigs, that's BS!!"
She wins customers over by saying: "Then come to my house and watch me, & then make a judgement! "


Danielle sez: "I ignore the fact that many can't believe I'm doing a man's job, and win the respect of my customers one at a time!" :clapping:



I think it's fair to say Danielle is not a typical woman, this gal is tough!!

[DarkSkies]

http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/picture.php?albumid=1&pictureid=5

Giz Mojo! Weights come in: 2, 3, 4, 5oz. Can be made with eyelets at top for Boat Fishing or at the front for Surfcasting or trolling. Colors can also be custom made.

[DarkSkies]

Some nice heavy jigs here, good for the mouths of bigger bass down in deeper water. :thumbsup:


http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/picture.php?albumid=1&pictureid=3

Herring Jigs or Lures! The weights are 2, 4, 6, 8oz. Can be made to custom coloring.

[DarkSkies]

http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/picture.php?albumid=1&pictureid=1


Ultra Minnows! 1/8, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 5/8, 3/4, 1, 1 1/2, 2, 3, 4oz. Can be made to custom coloring.

[DarkSkies]

Very nice, good for tuna, cod, many offshore fish. :thumbsup:






http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/picture.php?albumid=1&pictureid=2


Butterfly Jigs or Lures! The weights are 2, 4, 6,8oz. Can be made to custom coloring.

[jrodscustomtackle]

Hello DarkSkies!

I want to thank you very much for this forum that you have started for my small business. I greatly appreciate it. As I am surfing this site I am seeing not only fishing forums but also forums that are helping people out in everyway shape and form. This is a website that should be here for years to come. Thank you again for everything.
Danielle

[RocksandReds]

Those are sweet!!! do you have prices listed or did I miss something? Again Very Nice!!

Also DarkSkies I also say THANK YOU!!


Duhhhhh! I found it, I'll shoot her a email.

[jrodscustomtackle]

Hello RocksandReds!

Thank you for the compliments and no I do not haveprices listed yet. If you are interested in something let me know otherwise as DarkSkies put on my ebay website you can look there too. Thank you again!

[DarkSkies]

http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/picture.php?albumid=1&pictureid=4



Customer Service:

Danielle and her husband believe in the following:

"Reputation is everything"

"Happiness of the customers is the most important detail"


They follow these principles in everything they do.

They are reliable, responsible, and quick to follow up on an e-mail or question.

Give her site a look, and see if you might need something from this small business that's keeping its head above water, despite all the troubles out there in the economy today. They must be doing something right!

http://stores.shop.ebay.com/JRODS-Tackle-and-More (http://stores.shop.ebay.com/JRODS-Tackle-and-More)

[wish4fish]

:clapping: ok dark nice job on this and all the other junk your working on but you never fish anymore, did you forget what a fish is? when you coming out, yur gonna get pasty from bein inside all the time, lol:laugh:

[williehookem]

Good job here, Danielle, and Dark. The colors look great, I honestly never knew a woman who melted her own lead, that was interesting reading.

[bababooey]

:thumbsup: Nicely done, I too would never believe a woman working over a hot pot of lead. (excuse the chauvinism here):embarassed:

[jrodscustomtackle]

Hello Williehookem!

Thank you about the "melting my own lead", I appreciate that. As Darkskies has stated I am not your ordinary woman. Grew up around truckers and fishermen so right from the start I was doomed at being the princess type....LOL...But I want to thank you again.

[jrodscustomtackle]

Hello Bababooey!

Thank you for the reply to Darkskies forum on me. I do appreciate all imput. My mom taught me well about pots, boiling water is not the only pot I can stand over....LOL

[CharlieTuna]

Grew up around truckers and fishermen so right from the start I was doomed at being the princess type....LOL...But I want to thank you again.


Woe to the person who teased or harassed Danielle in grade school, they would probably think twice before they did it again. :scared: ;)

[jrodscustomtackle]

Hello CharlieTuna!

Thank you for that one. I had a good laugh to that. :HappyWave:

[DarkSkies]

Yup, it seems that Jrods jigs do the job!

Here's a pic of a nice bluefish Monty got on 5/2/09 using a herring jig. They're good for fishing deeper waters, and current where you need to get down in the water column. If you can catch bluefish on em, you'll also get bass when the bluefish don't get to it first. :D

They're heavy enough that you can drag them on the bottom, where the big bass live. :thumbsup:

http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=3614

http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=6537&thumb=1&d=1241387393 (http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=6537&d=1241387393)

[Monty]

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[DarkSkies]

Danielle, here's a partial review of your custom jigs. We didn't catch any fish that we could post pics of, they came unbuttoned. But they cast a mile, and effortlessly. :thumbsup: I'll report more on them as I use them, but for now thought people might want to read this part of the fishin report from 6-9-09:

We finished up in the back, trying to pull together a few bluefish in a place where thousands of spearing had gathered. I had success with an Ace baits squid swimmer before, it's my go to plug when I hit that area. All I could get were non-committal light taps from bluefish that were not aggressive, and picky. Imagine picky bluefish. :kooky:

Kept downsizing our presentations until we were throwing yozuri type small profile swimmers that resembled the spearing. I already know to downsize when spearing are around, and sometimes a teaser works. However, the maneuverings we had to go through to connect with one of the picky bluefish made me think that because there were so many spearing available toward the end of the ebb, that any artificial presentation still missed the mark.

Also had some luck for the first time trying the metal jigs from jrods bait and tackle as the dawn came around. We didn't hook up with them, had some hits that came unbuttoned. I'll report more on them as we catch fish on them, but for now I can confirm those things cast like a mile! :wow: :fishing:
They're aerodynamic, very compact, and cast effortlessly. When you need something to punch out into the wind, and are looking for a metal that will cover all levels of the water column, I would say it's a good idea to have some of them in your bag. :thumbsup:

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http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=4090&page=5

[DarkSkies]

An update for Jrods Tackle here. I have been fishin lately where the wind is strong and the sweep is fierce. This type of fishin lends itself to bucktails or jigs because you need weight to stay down in the strike zone and keep your presentation from being blown away.

Sadly, I have not used these Jrods jigs regularly yet so I can't report a whole lot of personal success on them. http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/images/icons/icon9.gif

However, Monty has been using them quite a bit, and I think he's happy with them. When I start fishing the Noreast weather patterns of the fall and fishing in the daytime more, I'll be using them.

As I said above, they are great when you need something to punch it out there. It seems to me the heavier ones, like the 3 oz, are priced a little cheaper than some of the big name brands.

Since a good fisherman is known to lose his or her jigs on a regular basis, why pay more? when the quality is there with Jrods. http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/images/icons/icon3.gif :thumbsup:

[Monty]

Have caught blues with them and Stripers.
The two biggest stripers of the year for me 25 and 19 pounds.
They were on the longest casts I have made (the 4 oz bunker metals) on a Breakaway Omega rod. Without those lures, I do not reach or catch those bass.
Also a few Fluke with them.

[DarkSkies]

As I said above, they are great when you need something to punch it out there. It seems to me the heavier ones, like the 3 oz, are priced a little cheaper than some of the big name brands.

Since a good fisherman is known to lose his or her jigs on a regular basis, why pay more? when the quality is there with Jrods. http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/images/icons/icon3.gif :thumbsup:i

This is one of the JRods jigs I've been using through the noreasters. They really do punch it out there. :thumbsup:



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[speedy]

just a few

http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/picture.php?albumid=1&pictureid=6


Combination Set! 1-Herring Jig, 1-Fish Jig, 1- Butterfly Jig



Business Development and Philosophy:

Development
Danielle and her husband met a guy who sold jig molds, started making them, and got a lot of positive response from customers.

She started making these lead jigs, and worked hard to figure out the best way to paint them, what colors to use, and how to make the paint last long and not to chip off. Shes the one slaving over those melting pots to melt the lead and remove the impurities. How many women do you guys know that can handle a job like that?

Lead & Safety: She has her whole work area vented for the lead fumes, and a state of the art spray booth to spray the best and most durable finish.
"I'm a researcher" - when she gets a little info about how too improve her products, she's on it right away, always trying to deliver the best quality product possible.



Obstacles
"Lots of Brick Walls" Danielle has run into many obstacles. Because she's a woman, many people don't believe she can handle the demands of making her products, and are sometimes short-sighted in how they view her.


Many say: " Oh come on, a woman can't make those rigs and jigs, that's BS!!"
She wins customers over by saying: "Then come to my house and watch me, & then make a judgement! "


Danielle sez: "I ignore the fact that many can't believe I'm doing a man's job, and win the respect of my customers one at a time!" :clapping:



I think it's fair to say Danielle is not a typical woman, this gal is tough!!
nice work you go girl dont let the walls stop you there are ways around them just keep going i need the jigs in my bag:thumbsup: