The latest sale thread

[snake95]

This particular 5/5 sale has been ongoing since back in October, but they keep adding items and have added some recently.

 

They put color coded dots on the times to represent a certain discount over the lowest price marked, and have a sign to say that for fishing "tackle."  The dots are on lures, reels, all kinds of stuff.  To me, the lures are "tackle."

 

It didn't seem to be this way before, but now Dick's signs indicate you can no longer stack the "buy 5/get 5" sale with the dots - so you can pick one deal or the other, but not both.  At least, that's what staff in the stores will tell you.

 

Items with dots now never ring up at the sale price, so you have to ask for a pricing exception every time.

 

Sometimes, the lodge managers just want to get the stuff out and will gladly back you up and tell the folks on cash to provide the discount. 

In the store closest to me, the "lodge" manager insists that the dots only apply to "tackle" meaning certain hooks and plain jigs, and oddly, old cheap fishing reels, but not to lures.

 

In one store I went into in another state, the lodge manager proudly told me that he'd cleaned out most of the good clearance stuff himself before it got to customers.

 

So, the mood/attitude/competence of the store managers and checkout person has significant bearing on the ease of getting a discount.

 

Bottom line:  yep, from store to store, and day to day, YMMV.

 

 

[Brett's_daddy]

1 hour ago, Junger said:

What are you eyeing up???

Couple of reels, really like the looks of the Shimano SLX and the Abu Garcia Revo X .

[kenmitch]

1 hour ago, Brett's_daddy said:

Anybody know when the next eBay 20% off coupon code will be coming around? I assume they rotate on a regular basis so it'll probably be right around the same time it was last year which is what I'm trying to figure out. I would think the first 20% off of the new year would be coming shortly.

I'm wondering also. I've got a $25.48 eBay bucks certificate waiting for the next go around. I figure the next promo will drop the day after I cave in and spend it towards something I want....Guess I got till 02/02 to spend it. Luckily I don't really have anything on my radar yet anyways.

[humbleangler]

On ‎1‎/‎6‎/‎2019 at 12:12 PM, Hawkeye21 said:

Pflueger has some steep discounts on some reels right now. 

 

http://www.pfluegerfishing.com/pflueger-reels/

Couldn't pass up the Patriarch XT Casting for $100 down from $250...hard to find many reviews for this reel, but the few I found were positive. Anyone here have any experience? 

[NorthernBasser]

8 hours ago, humbleangler said:

Couldn't pass up the Patriarch XT Casting for $100 down from $250...hard to find many reviews for this reel, but the few I found were positive. Anyone here have any experience? 

Just got mine in the mail today. This thing is very light. Seems well-made. I actually found a decent amount of reviews online before I placed my order (including folks here who love theirs). I saw nothing but positive reviews. 

[tander]

8 hours ago, kenmitch said:

 I figure the next promo will drop the day after I cave in and spend it towards something I want....Guess I got till 02/02 to spend it.

Go ahead and spend it, I am waiting for the next 20% sale. ?

[Adam.love05]

I ordered 2 supreme xt in left for 54 a pop. Couldn't pass them up. Hopefully they are a nice reel.. Should be getting delivered friday.. 

[FishTank]

On 1/8/2019 at 9:43 AM, Junger said:

From an email, Dick's is having a buy 5, get 5 free in-store clearance (lesser or equal value per the email).

 

It would be a good deal if the Dick's by me actually had ten baits on clearance that were worth buying.  Its sort of hit and miss.  They have been scaling down their fishing department over the years.

[MN Fisher]

5 minutes ago, FishTank said:

It would be a good deal if the Dick's by me actually had ten baits on clearance that were worth buying.  Its sort of hit and miss.  They have been scaling down their fishing department over the years. 

Agreed. I have a list on my DSG account of what I want to buy. 12 items, only 2 are carried in stock at my local store.

 

And they wonder why the storefronts are doing worse every year.

[Jrob78]

1 hour ago, MN Fisher said:

Agreed. I have a list on my DSG account of what I want to buy. 12 items, only 2 are carried in stock at my local store.

 

And they wonder why the storefronts are doing worse every year.

I have about 4 Dick's stores close to me and they range from bad to terrible for fishing stuff. I've stopped even going.

[MN Fisher]

Just now, Jrob78 said:

I have about 4 Dick's stores close to me and they range from bad to terrible for fishing stuff. I've stopped even going.

I'm just going to order online from them. If I want to peruse stuff, there's a Cabela's about 40 minutes from my house.

[GReb]

The only times dicks has anything worth my while is when they put the keitech on sale

[J Francho]

One of the best stocked DSG is right across the street from a Field & Stream, lol.

[James Janousek]

I've got a $10 gift card for american legacy (website only, not ebay) if anyone wants it, just sent me a pm and i'll give you the code.

[MassYak85]

12 hours ago, J Francho said:

One of the best stocked DSG is right across the street from a Field & Stream, lol.

The best fishing-stocked DSG I've ever been to was literally merged with a F&S, figures why the fishing section was decent I guess. 

[Gundog]

12 hours ago, J Francho said:

One of the best stocked DSG is right across the street from a Field & Stream, lol.

 

5 minutes ago, MassYak85 said:

The best fishing-stocked DSG I've ever been to was literally merged with a F&S, figures why the fishing section was decent I guess. 

They are the same company. Can't explain why they want both stores in the same place but I've seen it at other places.

[J Francho]

10 hours ago, MassYak85 said:

The best fishing-stocked DSG I've ever been to was literally merged with a F&S, figures why the fishing section was decent I guess. 

They've been under the same corp for years.

[NYWayfarer]

1 minute ago, J Francho said:

They've been under the same corp for years.

The Capital Region of NY has some decently stocked DSG/F&S stores. Thank goodness, with no Bass Pro, Cabelas or Academy's near by they are the only game in town.

[adrenalnjunky]

1 hour ago, NYWayfarer said:

The Capital Region of NY has some decently stocked DSG/F&S stores. Thank goodness, with no Bass Pro, Cabelas or Academy's near by they are the only game in town.

My Academy is a much better stocked fishing department - closest Cabelas/BPS is 90 miles away.  The Dicks is ok, but I get the feeling they're carrying the bare minimum in company-approved gear, that no one locally is curating the department to cater to the local fishing scene.  We have a couple of extremely well stocked local tackle stores too, so that keeps them from trying to compete too.  

 

I wish Academy had some sort of customer loyalty or rewards program, like the Dick's scorecard program, I'd get a lot more use out of it.  

[bigjean663]

On 1/11/2019 at 9:38 AM, adrenalnjunky said:

My Academy is a much better stocked fishing department - closest Cabelas/BPS is 90 miles away.  The Dicks is ok, but I get the feeling they're carrying the bare minimum in company-approved gear, that no one locally is curating the department to cater to the local fishing scene.  We have a couple of extremely well stocked local tackle stores too, so that keeps them from trying to compete too.  

 

I wish Academy had some sort of customer loyalty or rewards program, like the Dick's scorecard program, I'd get a lot more use out of it.  

Same goes for me here in Louisiana. Academy has the better selection but DSG has the much better prices. 

[adrenalnjunky]

12 hours ago, bigjean663 said:

Same goes for me here in Louisiana. Academy has the better selection but DSG has the much better prices. 

Same state, I'm just up north  ?

[waymont]

American Legacy has the new Tatula 100 reels on sale for $109.00

[punch]

Man it's been a while since Cabela's sent out a 20 off 100 coupon. 

[Gundog]

23 minutes ago, punch said:

Man it's been a while since Cabela's sent out a 20 off 100 coupon. 

Not a great loss for me cause I rarely bought $100 at a Cabela's.

[Log Catcher]

46 minutes ago, Gundog said:

Not a great loss for me cause I rarely bought $100 at a Cabela's.

I got a $10 off a $40 purchase a while back from Cabela's. I couldn't even use it as they didn't have anything I really needed at the time.