The OTI lures have a good following in the US, I am sure Brice (OTI) is a member on GTPopping
I am sure Brice was going to try and get some of the range out fishing for GT's as they are mainly used for popping tuna etc in the US.
Man, the lures aren't safe anywhere!! Tsunami has some copies over here in the US too. Not too much I can do without spending a TON of money on lawyers. Oh well...
I am working towards becoming more involved in the GT community. Right now we target the tuna fishery, but we have some lures that have become very popular with the GT guys in Southern Oman, South Africa, Singapore, etc... I'm also bringing out some new stickbaits to market directly to GT guys.
Too bad about the copies... Unless you do everything in-house yourself, you just can't stop the copies. I guess it's nice that we make them and they want to duplicate them that bad. Just gotta look at the bright side right?