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Custom soft plastics from Wadley, Alabama

Hand-poured bass baits. Any color you want.

Craws, swimbaits, stick worms, lizards and urchins, poured in small batches with whatever color and flake you're after. We fish them ourselves on the Alabama Bass Trail.

Green flapping craws loaded with red, blue, gold and purple flake, lined up on a granite counter

Eighteen molds and counting.

Here's what we pour right now. Don't see your bait? Ask. The mold shelf keeps growing.

Three green pumpkin craws with black flake and flapping claws

Craws

Flapping claws that kick on the fall. A crawdad is a bass's favorite meal, and there are millions of them on the bottom of every lake around here.

A handful of pale blue paddle tail swimbaits with silver flake

Swimbaits

Paddle tails that thump. Rig one on a jighead or a weighted swimbait hook.

Purple stick worms with black flake and a darker core down the middle, hanging from a hand

Stick worms

Wacky, Texas-rigged or weightless. Ask about core shots.

Urchin baits with dozens of curly legs in green, black, blue and orange next to blue stick worms

Urchins

Some folks call them porkies. We can't tell you exactly why they work. They just catch fish.

Four soft plastic lizards in a brown and pink with green and purple flake, curly legs and long tails

Lizards

Curly legs and a long tail. A spring favorite when the fish move up shallow.

Yours

Tell us what's working on your lake.

The color, the flake, how soft or stiff you want it. We'll pour a batch just for you.

How we pour
Three fresh purple and blue swimbaits with red and green flake still sitting in an open aluminum mold

Past 350 degrees, or it's a gooey mess.

Every bait starts as liquid plastic. We heat it past 350°, pull it up into the injector and shoot it into a two-piece aluminum mold cut on a CNC machine. Mix it wrong or run it cool and you get glue. We've cleaned up enough of it to get it right.

Laminates
Two colors married in one bait. Blue on top, green on the bottom, and from the side you can see the line.
Core shots
A clear outer skin with a different color shot down the middle, so the bait glows from the inside.
Flake and feel
Pick your flake, any color. We can pour it softer and stretchy or stiffer, whatever your rig needs.

A bass sees red, green and blue, and feels everything else through the line down its side. So we think about color and kick.

Text us your color
A red bass boat running across a calm lake at sunrise, two anglers aboard

Every tournament, our church rides on our backs.

A grinning angler on the front deck holding up a largemouth bass that hit a white crankbait

We fish the Alabama Bass Trail. Around 225 boats, two anglers in each, with the weigh-ins live on YouTube.

That's 450 people a year we might get to meet, and every one of them has a bag of baits somewhere in the boat.

Faith Baptist in Roanoke doesn't sponsor us with money. They sponsor us in ways more than money ever could. That's why their name is on the back of every jersey we fish in.

Faith Baptist ChurchRoanoke, Alabama

The bow of a red bass boat with rods laid out and a John 3:16 decal on the carpet, idling below a dam

Turn your bag over.

Every bag that leaves our shop has the sticker on the front. Strong and courageous, straight out of Joshua 1:9.

Flip it over and there's a QR code. It opens one page: the Romans Road, five verses from the book of Romans about how to be saved.

That page matters more to us than any bait we'll ever pour.

Strong & Courageous Bait & Tackle Co. sticker on the front of a bag of green pumpkin craws

Scan this before you tie one on.

"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."

Romans 10:13

An angler standing on the bow before daylight, lit red by the boat's deck lights, other boats' lights on the water

"Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest."

Joshua 1:9

We're not preachers. We're two people who love to fish and want everybody we meet to know Jesus. Like Isaiah said, "Here am I; send me."

The baits get poured in a 12-by-40 shop we're still finishing out, one wall at a time.

Strong & Courageous Outdoor Adventures badge: a cross on a mountain over a lake, Faith, Grit, Purpose, Est. 2008

The trips, the fish and what God's teaching us along the way go on Strong & Courageous Outdoor Adventures.

Tell us what's biting and what color you want.

Call or text and we'll tell you what's poured and what it costs, or send a note and we'll get back to you.

(256) 689-6557

Poured in Wadley, Alabama.

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