Welcome to Blackwater Bait Co.

Designed to catch fish -- not fishermen -- wood lures
manufactured by Blackwater Bait Co. are handmade
and painted, using the finest components available.

For 100 years, the most productive fishing lures
-- the Dalton Special, Creek Chub and many more
old favorites -- have been made of wood.

That's still true today.

However, modern manufacturing processes
and the introduction of plastic in today's lure-making
quickly overtook wooden lures in terms of cost
in manufacturing. Advances in automation further
reduced the cost of building lures.

Today, experienced anglers -- both freshwater and
saltwater -- still use lures made of plastic, but many
have found the lures of days gone by -- namely, wooden
lures -- outperform their plastic counterparts.

At Blackwater Bait Co., to make the finest lures money
can buy, we strive to bring back the lures of long ago,
but with the best hooks, hardware and finishes in the market.