Thread: Enid bait shop

Originally Posted by cray

You still working on your floor?

Yep. I ordered the longest elevator bolts they had, to short. I ground the hump off the top of carriage head bolts. Maybe the ground will be dry enough tomorrow for me to craw under the camper.

He's up and running at Long Branch.. Getting the kinks worked out.. Had a leak on minnow tank we fixed last night.. Be patient and give them your support.. Good people running the place

So how did you do Drew 😃

Originally Posted by KDAVID1

So how did you do Drew

What you talkin bout Willis? I was just minner shopping!

Originally Posted by ducker

What you talkin bout Willis? I was just minner shopping!

Originally Posted by ducker

What you talkin bout Willis? I was just minner shopping!

I chewed on this several times wanting to post something but each time I kept winding up on the "Mind your business" end of things. Reading this post, I was finally convinced that it was, in fact, my business. So here it goes.

If possible, fellows (and gals) try your dangedest to use the bait shop at Sylva Rena and/or the one at the Shell station right off I-55. They are open year round and suffer with us through the slow times. I hate to see folks opening up just as the lake starts to get busy and siphoning off the business that the local, steady folks need to help cover the cost of being open during the slow times.

My family runs a small business and we grin and bear the slow times. It is the busy times that let us keep our doors open. I’d hate to have somebody open up a competing shop right next to us just as our busy season rolled in. We’d be out of business. That or we’d have to start closing during the slow times and opening only when it was most profitable.

As I’ve started fishing more in the late fall, winter, and early spring, I’ve come to appreciate knowing I can drive to one of those joints and get my minnows and try my luck. For me, that’s worth starting out twenty or thirty minutes earlier each morning. My business stays with the guys who stay with me.