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Guys, believe me, I have NO great love for wally world.. it seems like I have become seen as some sort of wretch that wants to put local shops out of business. thats not the case at all..
I just want to get some "non boat" bait , some proper sea bass/ling size hooks, and a few sinkers.. That stuff is not available here, and I have to get it on the way to the boat, which is sadly at a very early hour.. say between 4-5 am... Typically walmart is convenient and fast at those hours ..
I only get down a few times a year these days, but last year in 4 trips we spent probably $ 800 dollars on NJ head boats, a shark river rental boat one trip down, bait and tackle shops, gas and eateries.. Just last week we spent over $150 to rent a boat in the navesink, and buy bait, Gulp, a few rigs sinkers, some bottled water, and gas from Lyndhurst where I stayed with my brother for a night... I do now and always have patronized local shops, however sometimes convenience trumps everything else..
The reason I want to get bait at Shop Rite this trip down???.. I'll be brutally honest.. I don't want to spend $15 on a 1 lb box of squid that were the size of my index finger and a tiny bag of frozen spearing most of which were the size of grass shrimp.. Thats exactly what happened last week to my brother and I... It does work both ways, and I sometimes am of a mindset where I feel I have to try and find a better deal on better bait, at a better price. bob