Thread: It's official: Bass Pro is buying Cabela's.

Heck, prices can't go up much more without pricing the average Joe fishermen out of the market completely.. I know the (rough) numbers on what the City of Memphis alone spent on the Pyramid deal (seismic refit), flimsy lease etc.. tax and tourism dollars won't ever cover it in my lifetime.. iffin I live another 35 years or so. I stick to mom and pops and grizzly jig, I like being a customer not just a number.. Not knocking, just putting in my two on the matter.

Originally Posted by Fatman

With the kind of money being shelled out in this deal prices at Cabelas and BPS will probably go up!! Time will tell!!!

I agree Doug. This is another case of the rich getting richer and finding another tax loophole somehow. This fact and not being able to find the lures at Wal-Mart is what started me making my own lures and raising my own bait in the first place.

Old johnny is going to buy the hole fishing industry. He just bought ranger boats a while back. I don't think the prices will go up its more buying power but it will hurt the mom and pop places even more.

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From what I heard Cabela's sales in high mark up items like clothes and shoes and stuff like that were weak and weren't able to sustain the desired cash flow outside of gun sales and and other items such as that. I heard this was cooking about a year ago and then it went off the radar. Some of the Cabela's stuff was high enough to lose my interest and some of their rods were real nice. I just hope this doesn't make BPS start feeling like the king of the hill more than they do now or I'll have to stay away from them more also. I buyvery little from them because of their pricing but when they have what you need right now and no shipping blah, blah, blah..... we sometimes do what we have to do.

In one way it's going to be interesting to see what happens. Years ago Cabela's bought Gander Mountains mail order division and they couldn't start it again for a lot of years if they ever decided to get back into it, which I see they have but not a lot of stuff on the site. We have one across the lake in NY and I stopped in one time - More depressing than when I went into a BPS!!

Ship I hear ya on making my own, my Uncle started me out when I was 10 helping out - but I'm gonna be in the crapper if the environmentalists ban lead in Vermont!! Believe me I go to any meetings on it!!

If all the brains that are supposed to be in this country would come up with a substitute that was exactly like lead but wasn't hazardous and was offered for a decent price I'd switch!! But that wouldn't happen - whoever came out with such a product would charge big bucks for it!!

I guess I'll stick to Tackle Warehouse, Academy, Dicks, & Gander Mtn.

Oh that really sucks. Cabelas sells much higher quality stuff than BPS. Serious gear. They were a great outfitter.

Now now it will be all about gimmicky stuff and profit. Ugh.

From what I've heard :

The two store "names/brands" will remain the same ... just owned by the same people.

Points, credit/gift cards, etc. will be interchangeable between stores. (eventually ??)

It remains to be seen if this pans out, but it would seem to me to be far less expensive to leave the stores "as is" and just be the owners of both brands.