A father, a son and a pour pot.

Republic Tackle Co. began the way most good Texas things do — on the water, with a problem. Baits we trusted kept getting discontinued, and the colors that actually caught fish on our lakes were never the ones on the shelf. So we bought a pour pot.

What started as a kitchen-table project between a dad and his son turned into hundreds of hand-poured packs, a wall sign, and a standard we don't move off of: every color gets fished before it gets sold.

We still pour it, pack it and ship it ourselves. When you order, you're buying from the two people who made it — not a warehouse.