Anyone up for a goodie-bag swap?

[Ground Pounder]

Got this idea trolling around on the Michigan Sportsman Forums. The basic idea is to get 5-10 people to sign up for a goodie bag swap.

Let's say you get 10 people. You pick a theme - for instance, say "Fall Bassin' Goodie Bags".



1) Each person goes out and finds some kinda' goodie that's not-too-common, and is somewhat consistant with the theme. The goodie shouldn't cost any more than $2-3 dollars each.

Some of the best items might be:

• Hand made lures which are a little unique and not like a regular variation available in the big box stores (i.e. the infamous "Jointed Weedless Jitterbug".)
• Hand tied flies or hair jigs.
• Unique lures, jigs, tackle, rigging, or tools from your region and/or favorite Mom & Pop tackle shop.

The list goes on and on.



Things you DON'T want to get would be:

• Mass-produced lures or things readily available at any BPS, Wally World, or the like.
• Live bait - because the stuff will die
• Really expensive items - no need for $25 swimbaits here.

2) Each person picks out what they'll contribute, and picks up 9 of them - one for each other person on the list (no need to send one to yourself!) You can write a short description about what the item is, what it's used for, how it came to be, where it came from, etc. The story will make it even more special.

3) Send your 9 items, along with $2 or so for return postage, to one "distributor".

4) Once the distributor receives all 10 packages from the 10 people participating, he divides them up and sends back a package to all 10 people containing 1 of the goodies that each person sent, along with a copy of the description from each person about the bait.

Afterwards, we can all give each other the business on the boards about how amazing or terrible their goodies were, LOL!

It could be a really cool way to get some fresh ideas, and use some cool new things that might not be readily available to some folks.

So whadda' you say folks?