I know, have seen ya whizzin around me the past couple weeks and you ain't slowed down yet to say howdy. Figured you ain't used to seeing me in my non butla boat, didn't know it was me.Quote:
Originally Posted by CatchumDeep
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I know, have seen ya whizzin around me the past couple weeks and you ain't slowed down yet to say howdy. Figured you ain't used to seeing me in my non butla boat, didn't know it was me.Quote:
Originally Posted by CatchumDeep
Sorry I didn't recognize you, Carl. I sure would've stopped to say howdy if I'd seen you. What kind of boat you got in addition to your butla boat?Quote:
Originally Posted by feelay
I've seen that boat out there but didn't know it was you. I'll come by next time and say hi. Awesome boat!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by feelay
$4.00 for 20 lbs. of ice doesn't sound bad to me. If you're at Sardis and need ice where else will you go? The ice machine at Batesville will give you 20 lbs. bulk or a 16 lb. bag for $2.00. But how much are you going to save driving to it and back? Buy a freezer and make block ice. Buy an ice maker and store the ice in the freezer too. If I'm going to need ice in the 16 lb. bag. I'll load a cooler in the truck and when I get close to one of the machines, I'll buy 2 bags. Like I said earlier, I use a lot of frozen water bottles for cooling drinks and minners on a trip.
I use to trade at Hearns, but the last few times I was there, they had bullhead minners. Are they still open? I guess I'll live with the higher prices where I have to. And be grateful that I can save at other places.
for me its all about the mom and pop bait shops we need to support these places the wal marts and the corporate stores have shut most our local bait shops down they just cant make it in this economy and compete dont know about you but i would much rather go into a thankful and respectful bait shop even if i got to pay a little more
Bill and Beth Wyatt are great people. If you have a problem, I would hope you would take it up with them. I am quite sure they would address and fix the issue. Ive been getting minnows there for years, and with the exception of the time they had the store leased to other people, I have always been treated great. I went last week, bought five dozen minnows, fished all day, gave half of them to Tom Tom and Don, on the lake, and still had minnows left. I bet i had 150 plus minnows!!!! Besides, havent you read the sign??? Their minnow are guaranteed to catch fish ...or die trying!!!!
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Not knocking the Dam Store but the price does sound high to me, pay 1.35 a dozen for Med minner day in and day out. Maybe who they get theirs from is too high I dont know but 10 dozen for 13.50 or 10 dozen for 20.00 is a lot of difference. I buy minners in Grenada and store em at the house and it helps. As far as count, like Feelay says 4 dozen is 48 everyday of the week, dont have a prob with a close count but price does make a difference. One thing I have noticed in the bait shop business is their suppliers hold em over a barrel, if they dont buy their stuff from the supplier then they kinda get black balled and may not can get bait if they run out. This causes a higher cost on things in there because of the middle man and to me also makes it harder on the bait shop owners to keep it going.
Just got back from Sardis and other than not being able to fill the boat due to them not having non ethanol, they run a tight ship. I didn't find the prices outrageous. Minnow count was fine and they stayed alive for us in our bucket at camp which was aereated for two days with just a few dead. They get my vote anyway. :highfive
Well itslike this these guys that have boats with more electronics than nasa on their boats,high dollar rods and holders,the best poles lures jigs,spend a small fortune on gas to go fishing,then cry over the cost of the most important item in their boat(minners) need to fall back and regroup.
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Originally Posted by jimfish
Its human nature I guess Mr Jim, but lets put it in prspective a little bit.
Brand new 50000 dollar truck and 2 gas stations accross the road from each other, one has a sign advertising gas for 3 bucks and the other one has it for 4.44, where do you fill up??:donoGas is the most important factor to driving down the road but I myself am gonna get the 3 dollar a gallon fuel every time, same thing with bait. Bet Sammy and Chris will stop in Lakeway on their way to Sardis next time and get their bait, supporting the "local economy" is an awesome thing to do and what I try to do but at half again the cost I just aint gonna do it.
As much as I spend to fish in MS anyway, I'm not going to complain about an extra buck or two for minnows. The folks at the Dam Store have always treated me great!!!! I stopped one time and bought minnows on my way to Enid. It was hot outside. When I paid and was getting ready to leave, the guy came out and have me a couple of frozen water bottles to help keep the minnows alive. Another time, Yikess' camper had some storm damage on the roof. They loaned us a ladder so we could put a temporary fix on it.
Then another time, I had a flat tire. One of the younger guys there went in to get a valve stem for me. All of these things they did without me even asking. You bet I will still trade with them any time I'm down there. Great folks!!!!
Also, with the price of fuel and everything else going through the roof, I imagine they are paying more for their minnows than ever before.
Dont doubt that at all and like I said in an earlier post the bait shop supplying business is a funny business.Quote:
Originally Posted by Speck
I'll take that under advisement. LmaoQuote:
Originally Posted by jimfish
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Coming out of the south, a stop at nader for minners at Lakeway wouldn't be a bad side trip. Hwy 8 is nice and wide, so traffic wouldn't be bad.
Coming out of the north, not many places to stop. A side trip thru Hernando with it's small streets to stop at Tadpole's could be tricky.
While at fall camp, the dam store was out of gas when I was driving in. I had to double back to I-55 for a fill up. Then a stop at the store again. I bought all the large minners they had. She gave me a bunch of smaller minners to make up the difference. After 4 trips fishing, I still have a bunch left.
The market at 310 at holiday lodge only has smaller minners for $2.00 per dozen.
Simple solution to the minner problem is buy your own from a minner supplier and put in a tank at your house!
ya'll wanna get upset about minners. Come down to jackson and buy em at Q & M. They got the market cornered and know it. Took me 15 minutes to get minners the other day and I was the only one in line. All I heard was, one, two, three, four. SUKS
You are exactly rite Sat, only thing is that I can play the odds at Lakeway and I'll get more for my money there then I do from a minner supplier. Ordered 10 doz the other day and got home to put em in the tank and had 36 doz give or take ( it aint always near that good but its a good number, with that said if it had been 120 minners I would have been happy). When they titen down on how many they give I will got to the supplier. Where I live I can be on Enid or Grenada both and never get close to a baitshop so its out of the way for me, just pick em up when we are in Grenada.Quote:
Originally Posted by satdoc1
Go over to Tibby and get a pound of minners, bout had a heart attack, they was runts too.Quote:
Originally Posted by DonDon
I know how you feel dd, outfitters at butla done got that way
Caught those I posted yesterday on Sickle jigs and Slab Bandits! No minners were harmed during this catch......:Rofl
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Originally Posted by crappie stalker
The trick at Outfitters is to ask for 4 dozen when they are busy and they will hook you up.Quote:
Originally Posted by ducker
I bet they get bait from the same supplier as Lakeway. If not, they should. We get minnows in AR for 4-6 bucks a pound.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rees Guide
If I were in the minnow supply business, I'd be trying to keep the customers I had. Most suppliers are about the same price, or they lose customers. There isn't that many bait shops out there comparatively speaking anyway. Any supplier would be glad to gain the new business. That's what's nice about free enterprise. Competition keeps you honest, or you go broke.
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Bill Burnett
870-635-0202
We offer Xpress, Excel, and Alweld Boats. Yamaha, Suzuki, Evinrude, Mud Buddy, and Tohatsu/Nissan Engines.
Pro Staff, Southern Pro Tackle and Ozark Rods.
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I have never had a complaint about the cost of minnows or for that matter anything else at the DAM store.....If you will count them you will find you have twice as many as you ordered and therefore its still a bargain. I do understand that they had a power failure during one of the storms and lost power and that affected a bunch of minnows.....but I am sure if you got some bad ones that a talk with the owners and they would try to make it right.
on the subject of minners, how many minners, lets say medium in size, are there in a pound....
Question is..what is a medium minnow? Lakeway medium is a large most places and jumbo others.Quote:
Originally Posted by windstone
10 to 12 dozen at Lakeway in a medium
Lakeway medium is probably a #6 minnow. Jigflinger could explain the sizing and numbers per pound better than me since he used to haul them.
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Originally Posted by "G"
I dont what minnows go for per dozen in north Ms? Maybe they are higher than what we are used to paying for them down here and at the Rez. All Feesh and I were sayin is that 2.25 per dozen is way higher than what we were paying anywhere else. Usually we pay from 1.10 to 1.25 per dozen. Thats all we were saying was that the price per dozen was higher than what we were used to paying. We got 24 dozen and it cost us 54 bucks, now anywhere else it would have cost between 26.40 to 30.00 bucks. Thats quite a difference in price from what we are used to paying. Maybe minnows are that price in North Ms i dont know??? Actually we did ask her for a discount for buying so many and she gave us a discount that knocked it back to like 51 bucks I think. And they were as nice as a people as I ever met, I agree on that, not a problem with minnows dying or anything else , heck we still got em alive in a cooler at Feeshes house so that was not a prob. We just thought the price of the minnows was high and it was compared to what we normally pay.
Everything is market driven. I don't know of any place up here that is less than $2 doz.
The price of minners have never stopped me from going fishin.
I understand that now feelay we just were a little sticker shocked since we hadnt been up ther in long time lol. Btw I couldnt agree with ya more about the size thing the mediums at lakeway are huge by alot of peoples standards. Heck I had some left over from Lakeway last year one day and took them to the Tenn Tomm with me a couple o days later and when I baited up my poles and started trolling the dang crappie were jumping out of the water they were so scared. :biggrinQuote:
Originally Posted by feelay
Now that's funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by GitDaGrease
Dang GTG....you shoulda feelayed them and ate them ifn they was that big:biggrin
Now Mr. Jim, we've fished together quite a few times and you know my boat is 20+ years old with dark age electronics, cheap pole holders and rods just like your Wally Marshall's. I'm just an old retired guy like you trying to catch a few crappie now and then. I can't believe that you're talking about me that way. :biggrinQuote:
Originally Posted by jimfish
Got bored so i decided to stir up the natives.Quote:
Originally Posted by CatchumDeep