Enid bait shop

What's the closest bait shop on the south side? Long branch wasn't open yet

The Shell station at the interstate

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Originally Posted by Rees Guide

The Shell station at the interstate

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Good to know!! We went all the way to sylva rena

Yeah, I never come in from that side so I didn't even think about Sylva Rena. The guy at Longbranch is going to have to get with the program if he is going to make it.

Hey ducker. You fishin' Enid today? If so would like to know water conditions and temp. Planning on goin' there tomorrow. Thanks

Color, choc milk, temp 50

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Originally Posted by ducker

Color, choc milk, temp 50

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Thanks, ducker. Figured it was choc milk....may try anyway since weather is gonna be nice. GOOD LUCK!

Might as well go fishing, to wet to lay under the camper to make repairs.

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Originally Posted by canebreaker

Might as well go fishing, to wet to lay under the camper to make repairs.

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Might as well, cane...another round coming in Tues. This is the last chance before it hits!

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Originally Posted by canebreaker

Might as well go fishing, to wet to lay under the camper to make repairs.

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You still working on your floor?

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Originally Posted by Rees Guide

Yeah, I never come in from that side so I didn't even think about Sylva Rena. The guy at Longbranch is going to have to get with the program if he is going to make it.

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I didn't know about the shell, but will keep them in mind.. Long branch wasn't open at 6:30, sylva Rena was by the time we got around there with some good Minners and a fine smelling breakfast

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Originally Posted by cray

You still working on your floor?

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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 😃

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Originally Posted by KDAVID1

So how did you do Drew [emoji2]

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

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Originally Posted by ducker

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

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:Rofl

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Originally Posted by ducker

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

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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.

Oh yeah and please don't delete me or yell at me or send me to the waste land of the way way off topic...it's just my take.

I remember when the store at the turn to Cossar was the closest to mom's to buy bait. Not very far from the Long Branch bait shop. The Long Branch wasn't that clean of a place, but it kept most of the regular customers.

Since nearly all shops get their bait from the same place... I go where the count is best.

Is the one at Sylva Rena still open. That's where I always go on the South side. That's where we used go for the MCC when Water Valley had the Crappie Days thing. Good food there too.

It is, Dunn's. Its very rare I go in from that end myself so I don't use them much.

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Originally Posted by bigcrappiemax

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.

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I didn't read this till after I posted above.

I 100% agree with you. I'd take a few less Minnows to do business with someone who's there when I needed them year round. That's why I forward my store number to my cell 24/7. If you call my shop, you'll either get an answer or a call back every day or night.

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Originally Posted by bigcrappiemax

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.

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I agree with this as well and think we should share this with the new owner of the Long Branch Shop. I tend to use a place that I can count on being open whenever I need bait, if I leave home at 5 and get to the bait shop and they are closed then I go to the next one, if it is open then the next time I go fishing it is the one I go to first.