S-B Welcomes a New Sponsor - River's End Tackle, Old Saybrook CT
 

I am pleased to announce that S-B has a new Official Sponsor, River's End Tackle, in Old Saybrook CT - Down by the mouth of the CT River.

http://www.riversendtackle.comhttp://striped-bass.com/phpa2/adimag...ontenttype=gif

I have been in there a few times and I know a lot of our members go there and speak highly of the shop. Just the other day, Steve McKenna was speaking highly of Pat Abate from River's End.

So, lets give a Warm Welcome to Pat & River's End Tackle. :btu:

River's End will also be holding its annual Striper Surf Day this weekend - here are the details:

So check out River's End Tackle here: http://www.riversendtackle.com/

CONGRATS RIVERS END
 

welcome to S-B sponsership

a better place you will not find. :wave:

Excellent, a big welcome to Pat and his crew at Rivers End. Great shop and great service :btu:

Welcome Pat and Rivers End! I hear great things!:kewl:

Pat Abate is one of a kind, a really great guy, has a passion for fishing and keeps a very well stocked store.

:chased: Welcome aboard Pat! It's gonna be an all star line up this Saturday at the shop! I'll be there too.:angel: I hope the grill has an umbrella on it! Perfect day for hangin out at the shop with all the fishy pros.

Good for them.Pat is a great guy.I stop in to see him on my trips north.Always accomodating..He understands the plight of the traveling angler..

If you've never been there, it takes about 5 seconds and a 180 degree eye sweep to realize "Hey, there's some great s^*T here !". And that's for starters. The staff is great and the place has a buzz.

Pat, "Q" and the rest of the guys are great. They are always adding special items to the shop and really do it right!

Hi Pat,
I've attended the show for a couple of years and it's always been great and well worth the trip. I'm going to try and make the show this year, but according to the forecast I may have to attempt it in a boat.

What everyone esle said - a great guy!

Welcome Pat and Crew ! Rivers End is a great shop thats run by great people. Looking forward to Sat. always a good time at
"Surf Day"

Only been there a couple times but that shop is top notch.

a great shop and a rally nice crew . Pat does a lot for the fishing community . They have their surf day tomorrow at 10 am . a lot of good stuff and seminars . well worth the trip to connecticut if you have never had a reason to come to connecticut before .

Great Shop with Reel Good People. Glad they are hooked up as a sponsor Here. :thanks:

Welcome to S-B .com.

About 8 years ago i was scouring the tackle shops looking for different styles of skin jigs. Pat let me take one (an unusual one) off his display wall and bring it home and make a mold from it. I then returned the original to him. I still have that mold.
Nice guy.

pat and staff super great people

Pat and crew are class acts. It is always well worth the trip to stop by. IMO its the best surf caster shop in the State.

I've said it for years.Rivers End Tackle,best food in Saybrook/Old Saybrook!

Excellent run shop by fisherman for fisherman!

Pat and staff always accommodating with advice and product. Glad to have the shop on board. Tommorrrow should be a great day. Hope to see all you there. Come and check us at the Ct. Surfcasters table.

I have heard nothing but good about your place and the people involved in it.Welcome aboard !

Rivers End is where i first started buying saltwater stuff a while back, in there old location. Dont travel that way often since family moved away but make it down there on a trip to lenny and joes every year. Always pick up some goodies, last stop was rather expensive.

I've only dealt with Pat on one occasion. I got a tip from another member here (who doesn't post very much since he bought a boat ;) ) that Pat may have had one or two leftover JK Fisher blanks in the shop. This was years after Fisher stopped making them, when the blanks were impossible to find, and guys who could find them were paying upwards of $250 for them. I called to find out. Sure enough, Pat had one last 8720 ten footer left. Drove up there from Long Island. I was prepared to pay any reasonable price for it. Pat was trying to figure out what to charge me, and finally found a dog-eared, tattered Fisher price list that had to be 10 years old if it was a day old. He charged me exactly what that ancient price list read--$132.50.

Great guy.

probably my favorite shop owner in the fishing world.Man has class and mad surfcasting skills.
His shop is so spotless ,you can eat of the floor.He told me "Hey ,if I am going to spend so much time here ,might as well keep it clean".
I wish some LI tackle store owners would listed to the man

I don't know about that ;)
He might be ,in my opinion ,one of the best on east coast ,not just in CT
:kewl:

been there once....shop is sweeeet!

Yeah Pat is great. Frank Daignault showed some aerial photos of BI and Quonny at a seminar and I asked hey where did you get them... Pat Abate... so I drove down and he let me look through all his photo albums and borrow the ones I wanted to make copies of... that is special.

And don't forget to come down to Pat's shop on Saturday for SURF DAY to say hello.. I'll be the guy burning the hot dogs again.

I am waiting for the Crazy One to pick me as we speak.....I think we need a boat and not a car :-)