For you.
Hello hello so
if you could give
me a start on walleye
if i want to go catch a walleye what
do i got to know what if where where
should i start here
Well, we have a very nice Lake
Winnebago right next to us here.
I would say get
a nice fishing
pole, a decent one.
There's different grades of fishing
poles. There's a light for like
pan fish, and there's like a
medium light for walleye.
And then there's heavy ones for like
Lake Michigan, heavier stuff.
But we're
mostly focused
on walleye and
panfish off of Lake Winnebago for
this particular shop.
Well, show me around.
What's going to catch me a walleye?
Well, depends how good a fisherman
you are.
I suppose.
You've got to take me through some
of the bait and some of the options
that you have.
Okay, if we turn
around here, we have
our own flies
and we make
fly rigs and they're
using a little
pencil sinker for a weight
and they are using that for catching
walleyes.
And that's just one technique that
they're using here on Lake
Winnebago. Over
here
We do sell
your fishing license and
all kinds of license right here
also. So it makes it easier for
a one-stop shop.
These are the little pencil
sinkers that we use for
making fly rigs.
So we have all assortment
here.
We have a good selection of
brand new reels.
We also have pamphlets
on your
fishing and hunting.
So we
do have a nice little counter here.
We
carry
ice fishing stuff here around,
because a lot of people like to use
them for pan fishing.
Not so much walleye, but for
panfishing.
We have a good
selection of live
bait.
That's our sorting table over there.
We have the sorting
table for leeches
here.
You say a good selection of live
bait, we just got
A big truckload of bait came
in, as you
saw there.
We'll walk on this way.
This is one of our coolers
that we have all our live bait in.
80% of the fishermen
are using night crawlers
at this time.
It kind of goes, sometimes
it's the walleye
want meat or sometimes
they want a crankbait as
such.
So that's part of the, you've
got to change to be flexible.
Uh, over here...
This is some of the stuff we make
in-house.
We're making in-line
sinker weights.
We make all of this.
This is, some of our
leadhead jigs that we make.
We package it all ourself in-
house.
And they have UPC codes on the back
of all of them.
Uh, down here.
I'll tell you a story about that
after a while.
Down here is all our selection of
hooks and bobbers.
Behind us, we have more
jigs that we make, all
different styles.
Some people like the little round
ball head jig.
People like a minnow style.
We make all of those.
These are some of the rigs that we
made,
the perch rig and
floating jigs.
We make all these floating
jigs also right here.
And these also have
UPC codes on them.
This is our close-out section,
we go around around the corner here
as I was
saying we
ice fishing jigs out year-round.
We have a whole
wall display just
for ice fishing jigs.
On this side we have
plastic that we make in-house.
A little plastic
for ice fishing.
We also make like plastic worms.
We also have a good supply of
kids,
fishing pole combos already
ready to go.
I mean that's normal.
We carry some
crank
baits here.
A lot of the professional fishermen
are using the Salmos.
They're a little bit on the
expensive side but we're
just the middle man so we can't My
channel These are Salmos.
Colors vary day by day,
depending on the overcast.
A lot of them like the
fluorescent colors or gold colors.
That's always a good
standby.
When it comes to the kids' polls,
what's the importance of having a
poll that, like you got Star
Wars, you got some other ones,
like for a kid to be interested in
it, like to get a kid into fishing.
Well,
some kids just want a
fishing pole to start out with,
and some kids are so intense
on having, I
have to have a Star War one.
Just for starting out, a good
brand name is Zipco,
and that's a good standby.
It's good for any size kid,
the three feet general
size for that.
So we got a good selection here.
We even have some
Little pink ones for the little
girls.
Like I say, we have some
crankbaits here on the wall
for walleye fishing.
A lot of guys have their
favorite colors that they'd like to
go with.
But I would say 80%
work the same as anything else.
Around the corner here.
Like to show you.
You've probably heard of night
crawler harnesses, okay.
This whole wall is for making night
crawlers and all these
packages are in-house.
So we have the beads and the hooks
and the blades and
we make them in the back room
and put them out as in-
house manufacturing.
Pretty good selection all the
way down of beads
and blades here.
Now we have a good
display of different
style, different kind of
rods up here, right above them.
On the back side here now,
a good displays of
bass worms.
We make some of that.
We make all of these
jigs here for bass fishing.
They can be used for walleye also,
depends on how finesse you want to
get.
Okay, we're going to walk down this
way a little bit.
We have bash
jigs, spinners.
We have our in-house.
Pan fish little spinners that we
make right here.
These all have UPS codes, so it's
a lot easier to take them up to the
counter and scan them.
We have a good display of
rods and reels.
They're not all just
for walleye, so we
have different sizes for the
kids.
Some kids want a purple one,
pink one, so we try
to show them that anyway.
We have a
little display right here.
We also have, we carry nets,
all different sizes and shapes.
We have some plastic here for
walleye, bass.
A lot of stores carry these
particular type for walleye.
I have to carry a few
filet and eyes just in case you do
catch a walleye.
This is our accessories
for swivels
and treble hooks and
we carry some
catfish bait here.
And like I say, we have a good
selection of
different size and shape
rods and reels.
Now here's our riding
wheel corner,
all the way around.
And we have a few on this side.
And we do have a few
antique lures for
sale.
We have some telescopic
rods.
Some people are starting to get
into.
Using these off of the back of the
bolt.
And then you use these off of the
back of the bowl for trolling.
That's quite the ride.
And this is a 14 footer up
to 16, even 20 footer
off at the back of both for
trolling.
And different sizes.
We got some catfish rods
and reels.
Now I
can give you a sales pitch on
what weight rod you would like.
We don't try to oversell.
We just show people.
You don't want a real, real
light rod, but you don't a
real heavy
rod also.
Even we kind of ask them for like
what kind of a price range are you
think about spending we
have them from $20 up
to $100 for combos so
if you step this way we'll kind
of give you a sales
pitch.
For a while to rot.
Well, here's
one for that $100.
I'll give you a sales pitch.
It's lightweight.
Carbon nice nice
rod and wheel combo
Something like this, nice
flugr.
It all depends on how you
feel on handling a rod and
reel. I mean, we can
sell you any kind
of rod and wheel out of your life,
but we don't try to oversell.
And that makes a difference.
Got a nice cabin
at the corner.
So...
I don't know.
What else would you like to say?
I mean, I'll try to...