BPS Spring sale

[cottny27]

I just watched 20 guys in 30min walk out of BPS with the $99 Pro Qualifier / Carbonlite combo.  Can't beat it.

[Fishin' Fool]

Those Carbonlite rods are nice. You basically get the reel for free.

[cottny27]

They feel nice and light, but I have yet to buy one.  

[Fishin' Fool]

I'm proud of myself I did not spend any money today. Keep in mind I've bought 5 new rods since Black Friday. However I did have to pry a G Loomis E6x spinning rod from my hands. Only because my wife called and asked what I was doing. I really like the feel of it over the St Croix LTB rod.

[Delaware Valley Tackle]

I was shocked but saw a convincing post in the past that the combo PQ reel is different. Disappointing if true. 

[cottny27]

I have heard that too about the combo PQ.  The rod is still worth the $100 and you can dump the reel on someone for $40 and be ahead.  

[SMITTY0045]

Is this sale just in stores? I couldn't find it online

[*Hootie]

Just now, SMITTY0045 said:

Is this sale just in stores? I couldn't find it online

I was looking at it online just this morning. 

Hootie

[GetJigginWithIt]

The PQ rod and reel combo is different than this spring classic combo. Instead of having the PQ on sale for $49, they have the Carbonlite rod and the good PQ reel for $99. It is a great deal. By all means it should cost $200. It is the same as the catalog option of the carbonlite and pq combo. Deffinatly not the black friday pq combo.

[Ronald K Smith]

the ad was misleading on the combo, it says your choice of rod but my BPS only had a choice of 61/2' medium or a 7' heavy with \the choice of reel in 7.1 or 6.4. I still bought a combo because of the price.

[RedHeadAngler]

6 hours ago, cottny27 said:

I just watched 20 guys in 30min walk out of BPS with the $99 Pro Qualifier / Carbonlite combo.  Can't beat it.

I'm one of them! In North Carolina anyway!?

[0119]

Are you guys finding that the stores have much in stock?  The 2 closest to me don't have jack, especially reels.  They hardly have any Loomis except bluewater and even less St. Croix.  I'm hitting Orlando tomorrow on a Valentines trip and hope they at least have a few Curado's. Gasp, I'm actually wanting to by Shimano!

[Fishin' Fool]

2 hours ago, 0119 said:

Are you guys finding that the stores have much in stock?  The 2 closest to me don't have jack, especially reels.  They hardly have any Loomis except bluewater and even less St. Croix.  I'm hitting Orlando tomorrow on a Valentines trip and hope they at least have a few Curado's. Gasp, I'm actually wanting to by Shimano!

I was pretty disappointed in the selection of rods they had. 90% of it was low level St Croix. They had a little better selection of G Loomis rods but not much. They had a few LTB rods for Croix but most stock was Triumph, Premiere and Mojo rods. Loomis they had a few E6x and a few bronzeback. No IMX, GLX, NRX.

[The Fisher]

Two words... TW

[robster80]

im gonna head up there today and looknaround.  i may pick up one of the new 6' tourney special rods to use for topwaters.  

[robster80]

just left basspro. madhouse in there. ended up leaving with a black camo terminator walking frog

[0119]

22 hours ago, Fishin' Fool said:

 However I did have to pry a G Loomis E6x spinning rod from my hands.  I really like the feel of it over the St Croix LTB rod.

Me too. So much I bought 2 of them today. And 2 Chronarchs to put on them. Very impressive for a sub $200 rod and I very much appreciate the subtle styling.

[Fishin' Fool]

17 hours ago, 0119 said:

Me too. So much I bought 2 of them today. And 2 Chronarchs to put on them. Very impressive for a sub $200 rod and I very much appreciate the subtle styling.

I just became the proud owner of a GLX today thanks to a previous post. I've really lost my mind. I can't stop buying.

[Nick49]

Visited BPS this past Friday with a couple of old "trade in" rods.  There wasn't much to choose from in the St. Croix area, but since I live about 90 miles away from the store the manager was very comfortable processing the sale for a St. Croix I wanted and sending it to me with free shipping.  They are offering a nice trade in /sale deal on their Johnny Morris Signature rods ($149 rod for $104).  The JM 7'2" MH fast rod, to me, felt every bit as good in my hand as any of the higher priced rods.  It should be an excellent jig/worm rod.   

[wordty]

I have done many rod and reel trade ins over the years there on another rod or reel...but I assume that on a combo package such as the PQ with rod for $99 I can not get more discount due to trade in?

[U-boat Aficionado]

You are correct, the trade-in won't be applied to a combo price.

I'm heading over to pick up a Pflueger President for an ultralight outfit and will take advantage of the trade-in on that.

[cbass12]

On ‎2‎/‎12‎/‎2016 at 5:42 PM, Ronald K Smith said:

the ad was misleading on the combo, it says your choice of rod but my BPS only had a choice of 61/2' medium or a 7' heavy with \the choice of reel in 7.1 or 6.4. I still bought a combo because of the price.

I wish my store had the 7' Heavy on the rack, I would have bought one immediately. The guy behind the counter was even willing to swap a righty for a lefty reel but said the rod had to be one from the sale rack.