Workshop bench with lure molds and hand tools

Since 2015

One Shop.
One Standard.

About
the founders

Gatorbait started as two brothers pouring soft plastics on a garage hot plate because nothing on the shelf held up to a season of Louisiana black water.

Every lure and every garment still comes out of that same shop — designed on the water, cut for the people who fish it before the sun clears the cypress.

See what we make
11+ years

Pouring, sewing, and fishing our own gear out of one shop on the Calcasieu.

11+ years

Pouring, sewing, and fishing our own gear out of one shop on the Calcasieu.

40,000+

Lures hand poured, trimmed, and rigged in small batches.

40,000+

Lures hand poured, trimmed, and rigged in small batches.

120+

Apparel runs cut and printed since the first box of tees.

120+

Apparel runs cut and printed since the first box of tees.

How Gatorbait
Gets Built
Gatorbait founder on the dock in a heavyweight hoodie

We kept losing lures to soft plastic that tore on the first strike and shirts that faded by July. Gatorbait exists so a working angler can buy once and fish the whole season on it.

Dale Thibodeaux
Founder & Lure Maker
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