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| Rumor has it they went out of business. Is it true and if it is where can you buy replacement bags ? |
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Location: Central Wisconsin | Could be true! Their phone has been disconnected. |
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Location: MN | They were purchases by Pradco and then closed. I picked up a few non muskie nets for about 50% off. Prado also purchased bandit lures last year. This company buys up fishing companies and either closed them or greatly reduces product offerings. |
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Location: MN | Pradco? |
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Location: WI | Also interested in one for mine. Hopefully we can get some feedback here where we could possibly find a replacement or will a frabill replaceable net also work! |
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| That new drifter net is very similar. The bag size is the same as the mag pen fin saver, and so is the net itself. As soon as they start offering just the bag i will be buying one.
As far as i know thats the closest thing there is. |
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Location: Mt. Zion, IL | joelo7 - 2/26/2015 6:00 PM
That new drifter net is very similar. The bag size is the same as the mag pen fin saver, and so is the net itself. As soon as they start offering just the bag i will be buying one.
As far as i know thats the closest thing there is.
Drifter was selling the bags at the Chicago show out of their booth... |
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| Pradco is the parent company for Lindy, Beckman, Heddon, Arbogast, Silver Thread, Booyah, Rebel and many other companies. They bought Lindy/Beckman and told everyone they were not going to move the company out of Minnesota. About a half year after the deal closed, they started moving everything down south. Little over a year ago the bean counters decided to put Beckman on the shelf until they could find a way to 'up their numbers'. Now they just lost their entire foothold!
The new Drifter Lightweight Predator Series are Drifter's version of the Beckman FinSaver nets. The Large is the same dimensions as the FinSaver XD (extra deep bag). Drifter is just rolling these out and you should be able to buy the replacement bags at the shows and in stores this spring. I know Zach had bags at the Drifter booth at the Chicago Muskie Expo. |
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Location: Madison, WI | ^^^ Drifter predator are exactly like the Beckman nets and you can buy the bags directly from them. If they're not on the site just email them because they had them available at Milwaukee as well. |
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Beckman Nets ?