Jimmy’s Bait & Tackle – New Forum Sponsor!

  • James Holst
    Keymaster
    SE Minnesota
    Posts: 18926
    March 8, 2006 at 4:30 am #1227756

    IDA is thrilled to announce the addition of Jimmy’s Bait & Tackle in Stillwater, MN as a sponsor for this forum in specific and website as a whole in general. They will also be supplying fishing reports from the St.Croix River as well as the Eastern Metro Lakes.

    The word on these guys at Jimmy’s is that the whole group is VERY customer orientated and willing to share quality info. That makes them our kind of people here at IDA!

    So let’s give Jim Newton, owner of Jimmy’s Bait & Tackle, and Brian his right hand man at the shop in Stillwater, a warm welcome.

    chris-tuckner
    Hastings/Isle MN
    Posts: 12318
    March 8, 2006 at 4:37 am #427720

    Woo Hoo!
    Glad to have ya on board!
    Tuck

    jhalfen
    Posts: 4179
    March 8, 2006 at 4:49 am #427694

    Welcome aboard Jimmy’s! Looking forward to my first 2006 visit to the Croix, and to Jimmy’s, in the near future!

    jbongers
    South St. Paul, MN
    Posts: 278
    March 8, 2006 at 4:55 am #427726

    I work right by these guys, so I’ve been in there a few times, and they DO know their stuff and run a nice place, congrats and welcome aboard.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    March 8, 2006 at 4:56 am #427727

    …it’s great to have a friendly, place to go to get bait and up to the minute fishing reports back in the St Croix Valley!

    Shawn blew me away the first time I stopped in there!

    tom_gursky
    Michigan's Upper Peninsula(Iron Mountain)
    Posts: 4751
    March 8, 2006 at 5:07 am #427728

    Great to have you aboard! My daughter and family live in Stillwater…another refuge while the girls are shopping!!!

    chris-tuckner
    Hastings/Isle MN
    Posts: 12318
    March 8, 2006 at 5:11 am #427729

    [quoteShawn blew me away the first time I stopped in there!

    Hmmmm…I am speechless.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    March 8, 2006 at 5:41 am #427732

    Tuck!

    Jason Sullivan
    Chippewa Falls, WI
    Posts: 1383
    March 8, 2006 at 1:06 pm #427749

    Welcome!

    You are located right next to the Oasis, right?

    Sully

    robstenger
    Northern Twin Cities, MN
    Posts: 11374
    March 8, 2006 at 1:09 pm #427750

    Welcome aboard Guys

    Now I have more reson to check out the river in Stillwater.

    DeeZee
    Champlin, Mn
    Posts: 2128
    March 8, 2006 at 1:42 pm #427765

    Welcome aboard guys!
    Thank you for choosing IDA for your home to advertise!

    bret_clark
    Sparta, WI
    Posts: 9362
    March 8, 2006 at 2:51 pm #427779

    Thanks for jumpin’ in

    emover
    Malcom, IA
    Posts: 1939
    March 8, 2006 at 5:20 pm #427836

    Welcome to IDA, and thanks for advertising here
    I know can tell by the posts from the staff, it’ll be a good fit

    dave

    ratherbfishn
    St Paul Park MN
    Posts: 220
    March 8, 2006 at 5:57 pm #427853

    Welcome aboard Jimmy’s… Hopefully I can make it up there this weekend to check out the place

    jimmys
    Posts: 83
    March 9, 2006 at 9:35 pm #428395

    Thanks for the warm welcome everyone! I feel more confident in deciding to advertise on IDA everyday. We will do everything we can to meet all of your fishing needs. We are hitting the slow business period until mid april should pick up. We will be open and any business until then is greatly appreciated. Look for a SALE to start very soon. If anyone is looking to order any Hi-end stuff like GPS units and such…..please Shop around and find your lowest price. Please call the shop and give us a chance to beat or match it. Even if we make a little it will keep us in business.

    Please spread the word and thanks again.

    ferny
    Stillwater, MN
    Posts: 622
    March 18, 2006 at 4:18 pm #428012

    Hey Jimmy, Thanks again for buying the place. I have lived through shutdown periods between owners. It was a real pain to find bait and tackle!

    Have you thought of sponsoring a small tourney like the River Rat at Beanies in the fall? Maybe something about $10 in the beginning of the year that locals and families would like to do? I’m sure it would bring in a lot of business. Perhaps even using the city property in front of you on the river? I know there is a big tourney this year but not too many of us are going to pay the big $$ entry fee.

    Thanks,

    Ferny.

    Charlie “Turk” Gierke
    Hudson Wisconsin
    Posts: 1020
    March 20, 2006 at 6:10 pm #431602

    I would second that from Ferny, Jimmy’s should have a tourny. I do think though that anglers will pay more in tournys. Yes the River Rat has low entry rates and yes it does get more than a hundred fisherman in the field, but the other 200 to 300 dollar entry fee tournys draw 40 to 60 boats. Either way, I don’t care about the entry fees that much though…

    Also this Spring there are four tourneys. We need one in July.
    Croix walleye tournies this spring-
    MWT is coming (need to be in the touring field though).
    WWA is coming (need to have been a participant last year).
    Hamm Room a local event.
    The Clyde’s is a two day event open to locals.

    And that’s it until the Beanie River Rat in late September…

    I see that two of these are “closed” tournys, but I feel July would be a pretty darn good fit. The baitshop gets good business in the early spring anyhow.

    I’m not sure if the Tera Terminal would be a good place to hold it the rip rap there is terribly nasty. Thanks for bringing this up Ferny.

    Keep catchin’
    Turk

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    March 20, 2006 at 7:10 pm #431615

    Ferny and Turk! You are two steps ahead of me as always!

    I had a call into Jim just for this reason. Since I’m not a tourny type a guy, thanks for your insight Turk.

    jimmys
    Posts: 83
    March 21, 2006 at 12:01 am #431711

    You guys are always thinking. Thanks Ferny, Turk and Brian. They beat you too it Brian…..
    I would be more than happy for the the Bait Shop to put on a tourny. Some of the local folks mentioned this when I first took over. The hard part is to find the time to put things together since I’m working a full time job. I like your idea, Turk, to have it in July when things settle down a little. Is anyone willing to volunteer there time to coordinate this event? They could take charge and work with Mike at the shop. We would need to get the OK from the DNR too and a place to meet for the weight in, a flyer to post etc… Lets keep this one alive. Great idea’s!!!!!

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