Bass Pro Shop Having a $1 Million Team Tournament for Amateurs

 

The purse prize in total will be over $4 million with the million going to the winner of the US Open. Apparently, the catch is you have to have bought a boat from one of Johnny Marine Dealers and it has to be Johnny brand boat.

2013 Bass Pro Shops Catalog Day!!!

Photo From BassFan.com

I believe she arrived a little early this year, but that may be because of the way Christmas sat in other years.  Well I can't say I'm to impressed with the catalog this year.  I don't like how they got away from providing a quick look at reel spec's with the order numbers.  Also didn't care for referring us to the website for most fishing rods.  And is it just me or have fishing rods been getting uglier looking for the most part.  Didn't see any lures that peeked my interest.

Missing My BPS Catalog

HMMM my 2012 Bass Pro Shops Master Catalog has gone missing.

2011 Bass Pro Shops Catalog Day

Today was the day the 2011 Bass Pro Shops Master Catalog 2011 arrived at my door.

I can still remember the wonder I had in receiving my first Bass Pro Shops Catalog back in the early 80's. On one of the fishing shows I watched there was a 1-800 number given to order the catalog and after seeing the add many times I finally called. I think I was in 5th or 6th grade at the time and it took me a while but I finally called and when the catalog arrived boy was I glad I did. Back in those days tackle stores, at least in MN, were much smaller than they are now. The Bass Pro Shops Catalog had hundred's of fishing items I'd never seen before. It was all so wonderful, the gateway drug to my tackle addiction.

Another thing I also love about Bass Pro Shops Catalogs is their historical value as through the years each catalog documents the evolution, and fads and fashions that take place with bass fishing tackle. From time to time I look through my collection of catalogs past to go back and remember the way things were.

Thank You Bass Pro Shops!!!

Bass Pro Shops Car Wins Daytona 500

I'm not really a NASCAR kind of guy, but I did watch the end of this years Daytona 500 and I thought it was cool that the Bass Pro Shops car driven by some guy named Jim McMurray won, never heard if him.

Update: I got an email from BPS that says in celebration of the victory they are offering $1 shipping on orders over $100. I'm sorry but orders over $50 should get free shipping just like Tackle Warehouse.

2010 Bass Pro Shops Catalog Day

Ahh, Yes it is becoming a Bass Pundit Blog tradition. The goods arrived in the mail today. Happy Times.

I may or may not get to a catalog review, today.

Update: I have now looked through the catalog one time and the Bait Monkey didn't reach out and grab me on anything in particular, in fact if anything I was turned off by a number of items. I wish I could find a picture of the new purple Rick Clunn BPS rod, man it's ugly.

I also don't care for the new look BPS Crankin Stick; The graphic they added is cool but the color scheme should have stayed the same because the new one is butt ugly.

I also give a thumbs down to the graphics and color scheme for the new BPS Carbon Lite rods. However, if Bass Pro Shops want to send me a Carbon Lite rod to test and blog about, I'm open to that because the rod intrigues me as it might very well be an innovative product.

Another down note: BPS no longer marketing Tom Monsoor Enticer Swim Jigs. BOOO. Maybe Capra's will still have some of the color and size I crave.

Bass Pro Shops Catalog Day!

A couple of days later than last year, but who is gonna quibble. I don't think I ordered a thing from Bass Pro Shops last year but I look in their catalog quite often and keep it right by the computer. I don't know why, but Basspro.com does not contain the full selection of things you find in the Catalog. I like BassPro.com and Cabelas.com because they have cutomer reviews of products. Of late my online fishing equipment shopping has gone to Tackle Warehouse because they have had sales or were the only one selling what I wanted to get. At Tackle Warehouse there is a "Submit Feedback" button for products, but as far as I can tell there is no place that you can read the feedback that is left.

1st Run through things that caught my eye:
1. The Rapala X-Rap Shallow Shad P.240


2. Strike King Perfect Skirt with Magic Tails P.346

This is the skirt that the Pure Poison Chatter Jig uses, 2 Skirts are more expensive than I paid for the lure itself at Tackle Warehouse.

3. Sure Enough Daiwa Fuego and Sol reels are $20 more expensive than last year.

4. G Loomis GLX 783c's are $21 more expensive and IMX 783c's are $15 more expensive than last year.

3&4 Make the deals I got on Ebay on these products look that much better.

5. St. Croix rods stay the same price.

6. Shimano Crucial's go up $20 a rod. (Had I not won the Loomis rods on Ebay I would most likely have gone with a Crucial or two)

7. The New Berkley Powerbait Chigger Chunk but no Chigger Craw to be seen.

8. No Denny Brauer Chunks.

9. No chatter jigs of any type.

I got my 2008 BPS catalog in the mail today. It is always interesting to look through the catalog and see the latest and greatest in bass fishing tomfoolery. All those new rods, reels, lures, colors and more. How exciting!!!