or maybe its always been there and I am just losing it...

but there looks like there is a new tenant moving into the Budds Bait locale?

Yes, they moved in pretty quick, just noticed it over the weekend.

Makes me wonder if they took both the location and the stock.

If I recall Bud's didn't have much for stock other than bait.
Haven't stopped in yet. Only time I really used Bud's was when they were open late late and I got a call on the hot line and had to get bait quick.

There was a note on the sign on the route 6 side in May that read Buzzards Bay Bait coming soon or something like that.

They did not buy the stock from Bobbie.
Makes you wonder how long they will be in business when my friend asked for a bank sinker they did not know what he meant.
Good location only time will tell.