Terms of Service

Read this first. These terms are a plain-language starting template. They have not been reviewed by a lawyer, and I’d rather say that out loud than let the formatting imply otherwise — getting them looked over properly is on the list. In the meantime, if anything on this page falls short of what Canadian or provincial consumer protection law gives you, the law wins. Nothing here is an attempt to sign your rights away in the fine print.

Last updated 26 July 2026. Using this site or placing an order means these terms apply to you.

Who you’re actually dealing with

Bassline Baits is a Canadian sole proprietorship. One person, a pour pot, a bench, and a growing pile of aluminum molds. There’s no warehouse and no support department — when you email, you get the person who poured the bait. Where this page says “I”, “me” or “my”, that’s the owner and operator: [[NEEDS: his legal name, plus the registered business name if it differs from Bassline Baits]].

You need to be the age of majority in your province to place an order, or have a parent or guardian place it for you.

Prices and currency

Every price on this site is in Canadian dollars. Nothing is quoted in USD anywhere.

Prices can change without notice. Plastisol, colourant, molds and postage all move, and a number that made sense in the spring might not by fall. What doesn’t change is the price you already paid — a change never applies backwards to an order that’s already through checkout.

Any taxes required at the time of your order are shown at checkout before you pay. Shipping costs are set out in full on the shipping page.

I try to keep the site accurate, but typos happen. If something is listed at an obviously wrong price — a pack at $0.80 instead of $8 — I’m not obligated to honour it. See the next section for what happens then.

Orders, and when a sale is actually a sale

Paying at checkout isn’t the finish line. Your order is an offer to buy. The sale is made when I email you to say it has shipped. Until that email, I can cancel the order and refund you in full.

Reasons I’d do that:

• The item is genuinely gone — a batch failed, or two people bought the last pack a minute apart
• A pricing or description error, like the one above
• An address I can’t ship to, which right now means anywhere outside Canada
• Payment declined, reversed, or flagged by the processor
• The order looks like it’s for resale, or looks like fraud

A refund in those cases is exactly that — your money back, no restocking fee, no hard feelings.

Stock and product descriptions

Everything here is hand-poured in small batches, so stock moves fast and a colour can be gone before the site catches up. If that happens after you’ve paid, I’ll email you with options rather than quietly hold your order.

Product photos are of real baits from real batches, shot without much fuss. How the colour looks depends partly on your screen. Batch-to-batch variation in tint and flake is normal and expected, and the returns page explains exactly why.

Bait counts per pack are listed on each product page. Lengths are nominal — a hand-poured 4″ stick bait is 4″, give or take a hair.

Buying for resale

Baits are sold for personal use. If you run a shop or a guiding outfit and want to carry them, email me. There’s a wholesale conversation to be had; it just isn’t this page, and buying at retail to flip isn’t it.

Using the baits — the safety part

Read this bit even if you skip the rest.

• Hooks are sharp. Jigheads, weighted EWGs, the trebles on whatever you’re hanging a trailer off — all of it will go into a thumb faster than into a fish.
• These are not toys. Soft plastics look exactly like candy to a small child, and they are not food. Keep baits, hooks and terminal tackle where kids and dogs can’t reach them. If a child or a pet swallows one, call a doctor or poison control — don’t wait to see what happens.
• Heat. Plastisol softens in a hot vehicle. Baits left in a truck in August can fuse together or deform. Store packs flat, out of direct sun, and keep colours in their own bags — different colours will bleed into each other given enough time and heat.
• Casting and pulling. A rig under load — a snagged texas rig you’re leaning on, a chatterbait trailer that lets go — can come back at you at speed. Know where everyone in the boat is before you throw.
• The rules are yours to know. Licences, seasons, limits, barbless-hook waters and local restrictions on scented or artificial baits vary by province and sometimes by individual lake. Check the regs for the water you’re on. Buying a bait from me isn’t permission to use it everywhere.

You take on the ordinary risks of fishing when you go fishing. That’s the deal with the sport, and it isn’t something a lure maker can take off your hands.

The brand, the photos, and the words

The Bassline Baits name, the logo, the product names, the photography and the writing on this site and in the journal are mine. Don’t relist my product photos on a marketplace, don’t sell baits under this name, and don’t scrape the site to stock a competing store.

Things that are completely fine and actively encouraged: posting a photo of a fish you caught on one of my baits, tagging the brand, quoting a paragraph with a link back, and telling your buddies which colour worked.

What’s written here is opinion, not a guarantee

Anything I write about technique — how to work a weed edge for largemouth, what to throw for walleye in stained water, how to trim a jig trailer — is what has worked for me on the water I fish. It’s fishing advice, not a promise. Nobody sells a bait that guarantees a fish, and anyone who says otherwise is selling something else.

Limitation of liability, in plain words

If something goes wrong with an order, the most I’m on the hook for is what you paid for that order. I’ll refund it or replace it, and that’s the ceiling.

What I can’t be responsible for: a fishing day that didn’t go your way, a tournament you didn’t cash, a rod or reel that broke, gear lost to a snag, or fish that didn’t bite. Same goes for delays once a package is in Canada Post’s hands.

None of that limits anything the law says can’t be limited — including injury caused by my own negligence, and your rights under provincial consumer protection law.

Your information

I collect what’s needed to fill your order — name, address, email, what you bought — and I use it to ship the order and answer your emails. I don’t sell it and I don’t rent it out. Card details go straight to the payment processor; I never see your full card number.

Which law applies

These terms are governed by the laws of [[NEEDS: the province he operates from]] and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. A dispute would go to the courts of that province — though honestly, email me first. Almost everything gets sorted in one reply.

Changes to these terms

I can update this page. The version live when you place an order is the one that applies to that order, so if it matters to you, the date at the top is the thing to check.

Getting hold of me

Email [[NEEDS: his support email address]] and include your order number if there is one. It’s one person answering, usually in the evening, usually within a day or two.