Thread: Minnow buying question

Originally Posted by arkcrappie

I like a shop that will give me a decent count. I understand business, but I don't like my minners to be handled. Give away a few minners and folks are likely to buy hooks, weights, etc from your shop. Around here minners can be bought for $5/lb. That's 10 dozen roughly of a medium sized minnow. I just go get a pound when I need it.

I need to proof read my posts! Around here minners can be bought for $15/lb or $1.89/dz. The lb is roughly 10 dozen of medium sized minnows.

Interesting to read all the different expectations of a bait shop. I hope some of the folks that own bait shops are reading all this. I think there's some good information in here.

How many of you folks buy "other" stuff in a bait shop? Jigs, hooks, sinkers, etc...?

Originally Posted by arkcrappie

I need to proof read my posts! Around here minners can be bought for $15/lb or $1.89/dz. The lb is roughly 10 dozen of medium sized minnows.

Interesting to read all the different expectations of a bait shop. I hope some of the folks that own bait shops are reading all this. I think there's some good information in here.

How many of you folks buy "other" stuff in a bait shop? Jigs, hooks, sinkers, etc...?

I for one don't buy anything else from the baitshops, they would go broke depending on my business. Heck most of the time I pick up bait I aint even going fishing rite then but in the next day or two, carry home what I pick up and put them in a vat.
I see it all the time with locals, we don't spend much but the folks that travel here do, they are who keeps our bait shops open here.

I wish we had a bait shop close enough that I could buy minnows and keep them in a vat. There's only one shop in our town and it's in the back of a barber shop. The guy keeps minners from March through June. Go figure.

Originally Posted by arkcrappie

I wish we had a bait shop close enough that I could buy minnows and keep them in a vat. There's only one shop in our town and it's in the back of a barber shop. The guy keeps minners from March through June. Go figure.

That's the way our Co-op here is and they don't open till 730, I am on the lake at daylite if I am going fishing so 730 don't work for me.

I think it's like any other seasonal business.........

1) the owners know they have a certain amount of time to make the majority of their money, so they tend to watch the nickles , dimes and quarters

2) The employees generally do not have the same concerns as the owners........ they come from a different perspective ( get you out quickly with no complaints )

It would bother me if I purchased 2 dozen minnows and walked out with 4 dozen..........Thats taking money out of the owners pocket who have a hard enough time competing with the big chain stores.............

Of coarse on the other hand I really don't want to wait in line to get bait and watch the person count out each minnow either! a few freebies are good or a few short ain't gonna kill me either..............