Hi Mike,
I got your private message!
here I am
First of all very congrats for the marriage and the italian trip, I hope you will have nice days in our country!
I’m in the north west of the country, near Milan… i dont know many shop in Florence - Rome o Venice. And I’m sorry, but we in italy don’t buy swimbait handmade in the shop, we dont't find them in the shops, we are lucky If we can find the commercial ones… for the homemade lures the situation is very "UNDERGROUND". Swimbait fishing is not a lot difuse, we are very less people that do that!
Proglure (Luca) is a friend of mine, now I call him to take a look on this topic!
So You can buy, on our shops, commercial swimbait like deps or jackall/illex etc... at a very good (EU) price.
I had ask some friends on centre-italy some fishingshop's adresses on Rome and Florence, i'll let you knw as soon as possible!!!
regards
sandro