Thread: New Baitshop In Grenada

Originally Posted by ccollins

Just my opinion, I don't think any bait shop should sale there minnows at break even just to try to make there money on something else in the store. I like to buy minnows as cheap as anyone but i also want that person to be satisfied with what there charging so they will hopefully have minnows anytime I need them once you can't buy them close you will realize who's fault it is that no one sales them. We travel to Al pretty often in the late winter and it's like pulling teeth to find minnows from Birmingham to Pratville we have driven 25 miles one way to get 1lb of minnows break that cost out per lb. and about every fisherman will do it once he hooks to that boat. But let that local retailer charge 2.75 a dozen and where all screaming, even myself . Lol

I agree that they are there to make money but at $17 a pound they are more than doubling their money, that's good dang good mark up even for a baitshop.

The problem in rural Alabama there is not enough traffic to support a Baitshop. We had three go under the last few years. I never complain on price because of this. Only hrs do I fuss

Originally Posted by BAMA S

The problem in rural Alabama there is not enough traffic to support a Baitshop. We had three go under the last few years. I never complain on price because of this. Only hrs do I fuss

Same here, the successful ones have to have something else going on. They closed the one across the river this summer, Jeffery's I think was the name of it. If they provided a service such as being there early and having bait where I can be on the water by daylight I'm not likely to gripe about the price no matter what it is. But waiting on someone to open, then feeling like you got skint don't work real good for me.

I think part of the unhappiness with lakeway is they went from a good count at an affordable price to a deficient count at a high price.

Originally Posted by Rees Guide

I agree that they are there to make money but at $17 a pound they are more than doubling their money, that's good dang good mark up even for a baitshop.

It's more than double... I know for a fact it's more than double. Everyone needs to make money. I expect everyone I buy from to make money.... just not Rip me a new one every trip in the door.

They've gotten to dipping single minnows out to make sure you don't get more than one pound... but they don't account for the water that they dipped up and ran off of the net into that weigh bucket. It's ridiculous.

She did that the other day, then I had 2 dead ones in my bucket.... I dipped them out and made her get me two more live ones. If they want to micro manage, I guess I will too.


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Back to the subject at hand.... I'm excited to try the new bait shop! Competition in the market is a GOOD thing. I like options...


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Originally Posted by pstone

It's more than double... I know for a fact it's more than double. Everyone needs to make money. I expect everyone I buy from to make money.... just not Rip me a new one every trip in the door.

They've gotten to dipping single minnows out to make sure you don't get more than one pound... but they don't account for the water that they dipped up and ran off of the net into that weigh bucket. It's ridiculous.

She did that the other day, then I had 2 dead ones in my bucket.... I dipped them out and made her get me two more live ones. If they want to micro manage, I guess I will too.


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Yeah, I know the wholesale prices too and won't broadcast them here but they make good money on bait, even when they was 1.50 a dozen they were making good money. I do not have to buy from them, have other sources. Looking forward to the new shop, at least he can talk fishing with you too. He knows something about the lake too, don't get much of that down the road.

$1.85 a dozen, waiting on a scale to be able to sell by the pound.