Academy Sports again

Saw a post on another site that said Academy was marking down clearance items another 50%. I since traffic home was bumper to bumper I made stop at the Garland TX store. Found Mr Crappie baits for $1 a pack. BnM and Mr Crappie jigging poles for $10. They had a few other sweet deals but these two caught my attention. I passed on the rods since I already have 60+. I did buy 25 packs of the Mr Crappie baits. I then stop my local store in Mesquite and found some more Bandit crankbaits for .98. I grab another 12 of them to go with my previous stash. I saw a guy buying a Pelican Predator two man bass boat for $299. I you live near a Academy store please drive over and take a look. There are great deals to be had.

I went to the Academy outlet on forest and they had the whole store 50% off and man are the deals great.

been like that a while , it starts after Christmas and slowly builds up to a lose your mind sale ….lol
I bought some sweet camo shirts about 3 weeks ago at half price myself ….
the stuff that wont go away gets so cheap it boggles the mind ….
my buds got 10 and 12 foot rods one year for about 3 dollars or so each ….
gots to love it :highfive

Wow, nice tip, thanks for that. After seeing the bandit post a couple weeks ago, I went by, but my store had nada. Will try again.

heck I got to thinking and I think them ole boys that bought all them long rods got em even cheaper than 3 bucks
I know they gave me a 10 and a 12 and bought a bunch of them ...

I need an academy store here.....lol

Well, I’m convinced. My trip will be today or tomorrow!

I got a Lews spinning reel that was around $90 for $20. Well actually got two of them, and my dad picked up a baitcasting combo that retailed for over $150 for $30


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I'm gonna make the run today.. Been meaning to get down there for a couple weeks but haven't had the chance.

Thanks for the heads up.

Tupelo Academy has 'Lew's conbos that normally sell for 169.00 for 39.00 (left hand only )

I stop in ours about twice a week. Have not seen anything close to these deals.

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I went there last week but all they had on sale sale was no use to me. I guess I will swing by then again and see if it has changed.

Probably worth calling before you make the trip. The Springfield Missouri store didn't have anything really interesting on clearance, all bandits still rang up at 5.99. A few rods but just bass and catfish stuff.

Paducah, KY store had a few good crappie clearance deals but nothing I’d go out of my way for. Picked up a bunch of Mr. Crappie jigheads in two colors for .99/pack but that was about it.

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Probably worth calling before you make the trip. The Springfield Missouri store didn't have anything really interesting on clearance, all bandits still rang up at 5.99. A few rods but just bass and catfish stuff.

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If I called I might lose my excuse to browse all the fishing equipment. :)

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Picked up a couple rods for the kids $4.98

Few jigheads @ .48, couple packs of Team Catfish hooks. All the good stuff was gone:Doh::Doh:

Have some 12' Graphite B&M rear seat jig poles for $17..

I stopped by the store near me last night and most everything was gone. It looked like they had sold a bunch of rods. And there were a lot of open slots in the baits area. I guess I was a day late...

I never get anything good at my local Academy, I go in at least once or twice a week and all the clearance items are completely wipe cleaned on crappie gear and tackle. I'm starting to suspect an employee or two are crappie fisherman / women. Or maybe have friends or family who are. Got to get me a contact on the inside it looks like :biggrin

Same here, Snubby. All these guys talking about BnM rods and other good stuff in other stores.......the one in Olive Branch does not impress me. However, they do have a good selection of Bobby Garland baits.....my go to bait!

I need to lay out and take pics of all I got at Academy recently. Jig heads, plastics, weighted floats, bass lures, all sorts of stuff for $30

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Same here, Snubby. All these guys talking about BnM rods and other good stuff in other stores.......the one in Olive Branch does not impress me. However, they do have a good selection of Bobby Garland baits.....my go to bait!

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I've got good buys on green carp rods, reels and tackle. Got a bunch of crappie kickers once for like $0.68 a pack bought all they had, haven't used them yet was just greed. Me and Cray caught some 1 bank Minn Kota on board chargers marked down from $89 to $19 once and we didn't buy them. We both kinda regretted that afterwards, oh well it's only a bargain if you need it I reckon. I like Bobby Garland plastics as well, love the stroll'rs just wish the tails were bonded better to the main body.

Went in mine today. No trolling rods at all. Only 2 crappie baits on sale so not much for me but mama loaded up on kids clothes


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I went to another Academy today and they were pretty much cleaned out. They did still have some BnM, Crappie Hunter and Academy brand jigging poles. I purchased a new Sienna reel with a missing handle for $5 and a couple of trailer hitch balls for .48

I went on Friday to the Paducah store and was there around 10:00 am. There were several guys there walking around with fishing rods and I picked up a couple of H20 spinning combos to have as extras when friends go fishing with me for $19.00 each. I also scored a Lew's Speed Spool Laser TXS combo for $29.00. As I stood in line the customer service checkout didn't have a line so I proceeded to the lady there. As I started laying my stuff on the counter a guy stepped behind me and said, excuse me you cut in front of my daughter. I apologized and placed the items back in my cart and insisted that they go ahead which they did. After they were finished I proceeded. The lady checking me out said that was a nice thing that I did and said that I did not cut line. She then gave me an additional $10 discount. I love having an Academy sports here during events like this.

Went in this afternoon, all the nice rod and reel combo they had marked down were gone. The only lures left were large bass lures which do not interest me.

I went to the fishing section and found several rods that were marked down to 1/2 price but none were the type I'm interested in buying. I did notice that on the top of several of the fishing aliases were boxes marked "inventoried for February clearance sale".

So they may have a better selection during the next week.

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I actually walked into some of it a few weeks ago. A 8’ BnM Jigging Pole for $8 and some change. 2 Bomber A 1 7/8” for under $3. An ugly 10 rod floor rack for $4.98. Some roadrunners and big bite stuff for cheap. I guess I’ll have to go take a look around again.

Oh, and 2 BnM Little Lucy rods for $1.98 each. I have no idea what to do with them but it was hard to pass up in the moment. When they say ultra light on these,, they really mean it. I might use one for kicks on sand bass so it can feel like a striper and see how long it takes to break.

I need to get 2 small rod setups for my kids. Wish I would have seen the little Lucy ones

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Ended up running in there today looking for something that wasn’t on clearance and scored 8 packs of gamakatsu (sp?) hooks for .98/pack when they’re regularly almost $4/pack. Not a big score but I wish they’d had more than 8 packs left. Everything else was all but picked over.


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I went yesterday afternoon again. Nothing in the clearance section but I went to the fishing section to see if there was anything there. Nothing was marked on sale but I scanned some rods to see if any were marked down. I found 10' BnM rods scanned as $7.96 each. I then checked the 12' BnM rods and found that they scanned at $17.49 each. Didn't have time to scan other rods but I'm going back there this afternoon.

Especially I heard a store manager tell the fishing section manager to make sure his people were ready, as they were going to have a lot more mark downs starting at 2:00 PM. So I intend to be there to see what is marked down. :)

I did not buy any of the 10' rods since I have several of that size. I did buy six of the 12' rods to use with spider rigging.

What is the benefit of a 10 or 12' rod for crappie?

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What is the benefit of a 10 or 12' rod for crappie?

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Longer rods are standard for trolling and vertical jigging:

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I did buy six of the 12' rods to use with spider rigging.

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I get that but what benefit does a long rod have over trolling or vertical jigging over say a 6' rod?

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Originally Posted by BAFishBarn

I get that but what benefit does a long rod have over trolling or vertical jigging over say a 6' rod?

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For trolling, you can spread your baits out farther from the boat and cover more water with longer rods.

For vertical jigging, you can stay farther away from structure so as not to spook the fish.

Ok gotcha now. Thanks for the explanation

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Saw a post on another site that said Academy was marking down clearance items another 50%. I since traffic home was bumper to bumper I made stop at the Garland TX store. Found Mr Crappie baits for $1 a pack. BnM and Mr Crappie jigging poles for $10. They had a few other sweet deals but these two caught my attention. I passed on the rods since I already have 60+. I did buy 25 packs of the Mr Crappie baits. I then stop my local store in Mesquite and found some more Bandit crankbaits for .98. I grab another 12 of them to go with my previous stash. I saw a guy buying a Pelican Predator two man bass boat for $299. I you live near a Academy store please drive over and take a look. There are great deals to be had.

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Should by bandits and sell on site . $3.00 would sell many 300 's for sure . Have seen Bandit 100 's for 3 pack 9.00 at Tupelo Academy .

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Originally Posted by BAFishBarn

I get that but what benefit does a long rod have over trolling or vertical jigging over say a 6' rod?

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reach. When logs/brush is thick when jigging . Spread when trolling .

The sales must have cleaned out Academy. I ordered a new worm bag for my jigs 2 weeks ago and it hasn't shipped yet.

I stopped by the Academy Outlet store on the way home from work tonight. I picked up some Roadrunner and Mo glo jig heads for .50 a pack. I also got some Panfish Assassin plastics for .25 and .50 a pkg. I picked up a few other items that the made the trip worth it. You would go crazy in their if your a bass plastics guy. They all kind of plastics for .98 or less.

I'm about convinced that the Academy stores here don't do this... Been twice and haven't seen anything really marked down yet...