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I am not knocking the chain stores, they do have better pricing on some items but these store have to buy in huge's quantities, and most of the time these items are not even made for use in our area. Your local shops have an inventory of items that are more likely to work in our area, the price may be a little higher but on the long run you can get more personal service and information from the local shop. Most shop canhelp you out on a broken rod tip or make small repairs to your reel Its pretty nice to walk into a few tackle shops and the people there know your name and you can spend a few minuets talking and getting some good info. on where the fish are. To me that's better than " Welcome to Walmart"
I agree 100%. We have Steve's over in north hartland and he has just about everything you could want for icefishing. Anything he doesn't have he can order. I can always get good tackle, bait and decent info there. When I have gone to places like walmart in the past, you bring the icefishing stuff to the counter and you get asked what it is....