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? Where should I start here? Well, we have a very nice
leekwina bagel right next to us here. I would say get a nice fishing pole, a decent one.
There's different grades of fishing pole. There's a light for like panfish 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.
We'll show you around. What's going to catch me at walleye?
Well, it's all good a fisherman you are. I suppose. We've got to take these through some of the bait
and some of the options that do that. 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 our weight and they're
using that for catching walleyes and that's just one technique that they're using here on Lake
Winnebago. Over here, we'll kind of, we do sell your fishing license and all kinds of license
right here also. So it makes it easier for a one-stop shop.
And 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
pan fishing. We have a good selection of live bait. That's our sorting table over there.
We have a 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.
A lot of, not 80 percent of the fishermen are using night crawlers at this time. It kind of goes,
sometimes it's the wall I want meat or sometimes they want a crank bait as such. So that's part of,
you got to change to be flexible. 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 the lead head jigs that we make. We package it all ourselves in house.
And they have UPC codes on the back of all of them.
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 mental style we make all of us.
These are some of the rigs that we make, 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 closed-out section. We go down around the corner here.
As I was saying, we leave ice-tracing jigs all year round. We have a whole
wall display just for ice-tracing jigs. On this side, we have plastic that we make in house.
We make little plastic for ice-tracing. We also make like plastic worms.
So that's that. We also have a good supply of kids fishing pole combos already ready to go.
I mean, that's normal. We carry some, well, I'll clear you. Some crank baits here.
A lot of the professional fishermen are using the salamos. They're a little bit on the expensive
side, but we're just a middleman, so we can't say much, you know. These are salamos.
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' poles, what's the importance of having a pole 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 sole, intense on having, I have to have a Star Wars one.
Just for starting out, a good brand name is Zepko, 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 penguins for the little girls. Like I said, we have some
crank baits here on the wall for wall-eye 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 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 a in-house manufacturing. And 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 backside here and all, a good display of bass worms. We make some of that. We make all
these jigs here for bass fishing. They can be used for wall-eye also, depends on how
finesse you want to get. Okay, we're going to walk down this way a little bit. We have
bass jigs, spinners. We have our in-house panfish 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 wall-eye. So we have,
you know, different sizes for the kids. Some kids want a purple one, pink one, so we try to
show them at 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 wall-eye bass.
A lot of stores carry the East particular type for wall-eye.
I have to carry a few fully, and I isn't just in case you do catch your wall-eye.
This is our accessories for swivels and treble hooks, and we carry some catfish bait here.
And like I said, we have a good selection of different size and shape rods and reels.
Now here's our rod and reel 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 bolt for trolling.
That's quite the rod.
And this is a 14 foot. They're off the 16 even 20 footer off of the back of the bolt 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 want a real, real heavy rod also.
So and we even we kind of asked them for like what kind of a price range are you
think of as 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 water rod.
Well, here's one for that $100. I'll give you a sales pitch. It's a lightweight.
It's carbon, nice, nice rod and reel combo.
Something like this, nice flueger.
That all depends on how you feel on handling a rod and reel. I mean, we can sell you any
kind of rod and reel or whatever you like, but we don't try to oversell. And that makes a difference.
I've got a nice cabinet counter here.
So I don't know what else would you like to see. I mean, I'll try to