You won't believe what I saw in Fleet Farm

They were stocking shelves in the fishing tackle section. No, really. They had about 10 of these big stocking carts stacked full of OPEN WATER fishing stuff and they were putting everything out as if it were spring. They had everything. They had jigs they had mono they had plastics.

I looked at the carts and the poor guy who was stocking stuff looked back at me as if to say please don’t ask… I take it people had been bugging him all morning asking for the 1/9th Oz fuchsia Flipper Dipper jigs that they were hoping were somewhere on those ten carts.

I asked a manager guy in a white shirt what the deal was and he said stuff just started coming in. They had stuff on order but nothing ever showed up before. He was hoping that this isn’t their allocation for next year as well.

Strange times. Fishing gear actually getting stocked during the fishing season. Weird.

Grouse

We’ve been stalking it because it hasn’t been stocked.

I’ll show myself out.

Edit: Ha! You fixed it while I was posting, you sneaky bugger.

And it’s probably all gone now.

There will be a run on gear like toilet paper in March. Only one jig per visit, sir.

-J.

Jon Jordan wrote:

There will be a run on gear like toilet paper in March. Only one jig per visit, sir.

-J.

I bought a 3 pack of jigs yesterday Jon and I fished them like I stole them.

Grouse

I thought you were going to post that they were stocking ice fishing gear/tackle!!

That’s good news. Still a lot of summer left.

We visited BPS in Bolingbrook IL yesterday and out of stock on most fishing baits etc.

What store were you at?

Trileeeeeeennnnnnneeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TheFamousGrouse wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Jon Jordan wrote:</div>
There will be a run on gear like toilet paper in March. Only one jig per visit, sir.

-J.

I bought a 3 pack of jigs yesterday Jon and I fished them like I stole them.

Grouse

Did you buy any fair food in the parking lot?
DT

I thought maybe you saw someone wearing a mask.

deertracker wrote:

Did you buy any fair food in the parking lot?
DT

No, their vegan and vegetarian selections were a little weak.

Grouse

TheFamousGrouse wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>deertracker wrote:</div>
Did you buy any fair food in the parking lot?
DT

No, their vegan and vegetarian selections were a little weak.

Grouse

Deep fried Snicker bars are vegetarian.

I went to the lino lakes location and they still had nothing

Bearcat89 wrote:

I went to the lino lakes location and they still had nothing

Jump on the bike and come to Alexandria. Grouse said they even had the hard to find 11/17 ounce jigs…
DT

Drive to Eden Prairie center Scheels is open

Bearcat89 wrote:

I went to the lino lakes location and they still had nothing

bigcrappie wrote:

Drive to Eden Prairie center Scheels is open

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Bearcat89 wrote:</div>
I went to the lino lakes location and they still had nothing

I went to fleet farm to buy a new gun but they also don’t have any of them. So then I browsed the tackle selection. They also had very little of that. But they were fully stocked on purses and ladies gardening gloves.

Times have changed so much so fast in the last 6 months an no one knows what the next 6 months will bring for sure. . . rrr

They were stocking shelves in the fishing tackle section.
Fake news,Jay!

belletaine wrote:

They were stocking shelves in the fishing tackle section.
Fake news,Jay!

Laugh if you will, but I am fully restocked on the infamous 11/17 ounce jigs. So there.

Grouse

Grouse..that doesn’t surprise me..I sell product to Scheels and they had A”Purchase Freeze” in place during the begging of this virus BS and have since lifted the that purchase freeze,,I can imagine alot places did the same including FF.