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| What's your favorite place to purchase musky stuff and why? |
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| MTO because I like to save money. Best prices and fast shipping, can't beat that! |
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Location: Land of the Musky | Mine would be Musky Tackle Online. http://www.muskytackleonline.com/ Short story but when I started fishing musky I found MTO and I thought for sure he had all of his prices screwed up. Got my first order and put another order in before he fixed his prices!  8 years later and he still has not "fixed" his prices. On average he is 10%+ (or more) less than MSRP.
I will not name the musky shops that do this but a few sell above retail in the list above. Just make sure you price check before you buy IMO. I think you will find fairly decent price differences for the same musky/pike lures from musky shop to musky shop plus most do not have free shipping offers, (MTO does).
Also, Cabelas, Dick's and Bass Pro are nice to visit the stores in person because they do have bargain caves and specials you will not see online. They both keep close eyes on retail prices too and they will have musky lures at or below MSRP many times too. Bass Pro is getting a lot more musky lure selection in their stores and online. Last time I was at the Iowa BP they had a full isle of musky /pike lures. I was impressed by the increase in larger lures there. Dicks also has a decent amount of musky and pike lures on the shelves and they have good prices. Worth a stop if you are near these stores too.
JMO from my lure buying experiences,
James
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| If I’m placing a larger order or getting rods and reels and stuff I’ll order from the tackle shops like Rollies , Thornes, or other local tackle shops. I like to be able to go to their store front and support these “Ma and Pa” operations. If there is just one lure I’m interested in getting I like going directly to the baitmaker, I think it’s cool to have the personal interaction with the guys making the stuff.
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Location: Oshkosh | Mine is The Sportsman in Appleton!
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| Musky Tackle Online - great customer service, prices, fast shipping, etc. Thanks to Aaron. |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | If it's just baits we're talking about, I shop with Aaron at Musky Tackle Online. Free shipping on all orders $75 or more + no local sales tax means in today's economy, you can really save a lot of cash by shopping with Aaron.
If it's something really obscure or hard to find, then I check locally with The Sportsman in Appleton and then Big Wood Musky Lures! If I still can't find it (and depending upon how much I want it) - then chances are, I can order it online with Rollie & Helen's but then I get dinged for shipping costs (very high, IMO) & local sales tax. |
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| whynot - 4/28/2011 10:12 AM
MTO because I like to save money. Best prices and fast shipping, can't beat that!
+1 and i would add aaron is a great guy to deal whit |
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| Thank you to all that voted and/or responded. Your input it appreciated. |
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| bigwoodmuskylures.com.
all the name brand stuff and a bunch of exclusive baits that you cant find anywhere else. some of the lowest prices and extremely fast shipping. |
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Location: Oswego, IL | whynot - 4/28/2011 9:12 AM
MTO because I like to save money. Best prices and fast shipping, can't beat that!
Ditto! |
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Location: Appleton,WI | two thumbs up for bigwood! |
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| MTO has great prices, delivery and most important service! |
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Location: Illinois | Pastikas. Oldest bait shop, great selection, helpful staff. Source of my childhood wonderment- so many fancy and colorful lures! They're good to order online from as well. Prompt delivery. I don't mind paying a couple bucks more that I might save elsewhere to support my favorite baitshop. I could depend on Patiskas for 30 years, so that counts for something in my book!
MTO is really good, I do business there too, it's just not a baitshop by my definition. If you don't sell night crawlers, you ain't one! |
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| The sportsman in Appleton, the owner is very nice and they have great prices. |
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Location: madison wisconsin | Dorn's in Madison. |
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Location: central illinois | MTO. I can place an order and get the colors I want because he keeps his color chart updated. The place I used to buy from would call me 4 days after I placed my order to tell me they were out of more than 50% of the colors I wanted for just about every order! Free shipping over $75, delivery in two days, color charts updated...MTO is the way to go! Hopefully, lure manufacturers will start to notice MTO's popularity, so he can increase his product line(SS Shads) and I won't have to order from anyone else. |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | dway - 4/28/2011 5:01 PM MTO. I can place an order and get the colors I want because he keeps his color chart updated. The place I used to buy from would call me 4 days after I placed my order to tell me they were out of more than 50% of the colors I wanted for just about every order! Free shipping over $75, delivery in two days, color charts updated...MTO is the way to go! Hopefully, lure manufacturers will start to notice MTO's popularity, so he can increase his product line(SS Shads) and I won't have to order from anyone else. Thanks for mentioning this... this is another reason why I love ordering from MTO. I know what's in stock and I know what a certain lure color looks like. Do any of you know what color "mocha brown coconut frappuccino extravaganza" looks like? ...neither do I. I really like the selection of some of the other online websites, but their website isn't updated regularly and they don't have photographs of the various color patterns. I'm certainly not going to call the business and ask them to explain to me over the telephone what a particular color looks like... MTO is awesome about this. |
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| Thornbrothers
Service
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Experienced Staff
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Location: Baxter, MN | MTO....
Great selection, prices, free shipping, and exceptional customer service.
Aaron is always willing to offer advice and answer questions too. |
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Location: Land of the Musky | From a manufacturing point of view I love dealing with Aaron at Musky Tackle Online, he pays his bills fast, he is the only retailer who carries all 1000+ of my products and he is easy to work with. A+++ all the way from a manufacturers point of view. He has had a lot of great input on lures I have built and have coming out soon too from colors to lure designs. Now he just need a bigger building so I can make more stuff for him to sell! LOL And I thought I had a storage problem...... |
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Location: sun prairie,wi | i heard though the grape vine that he was getting a bigger place.....
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| Can't say enough about Aaron at M.T.O. Great prices,Great customer service and Great shipping costs.
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| muskellunged - 4/28/2011 2:26 PM
I don't mind paying a couple bucks more that I might save elsewhere to support my favorite baitshop.
I agree ,thats why I go to the sportsman. got to keep Pete in business. Plus he lets use his shop for meetings |
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| Never had much luck finding what I needed at the Sportsman so I order from Thorne Bros. and I always got fast shipping and they seemed eager to do business with me.
Musky1
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| Favorite is Buy/Sell here at M1! But agree that Aaron at MTO is great. I do enjoy exploring an actual bait shop...a little crawler/sucker juice on its floor is a plus. |
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Location: Minnesota | MTO... already left a testimonial on MTO website so no need to repeat myself here!!! LOL
On serious note, Aaron has such an excellent customer service and customer rapport... He will try his hardest to get what you are looking for... and for me, he hasnt failed... yet still offered me the lowest price anywhere...
Just cant beat Musky Tackle Online hands down!!! He also offers far more custom colored baits... thats another positive mark... |
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Location: Nielsen's Fly-In Lodge, on Rowan Lake | REEDS SPORTING GOODS |
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Location: Hartford Wi | MTO is not a (shop). It can be cheap becuase it has way less overhead to survive.
I love Smokey's Many of reasons but john is the #*#*! Rollies and Pastikas are both great seconds. I have lots of memories in both of those growning up. Those are shops!
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Location: SE Wisconsin | John really does a great job making sure your trip to the ol' Musky Shop is far from just running another errand - he makes it fun and welcomes everyone genuinly. Smokey's is a great shop with great people, although I'm sure that can be said about all of the above listed places. |
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