Goose Hummock B+T

[Karl F]

hmmm... very interesting article in last months Cape Business about the Goose.
After reading that, and the direction the current owner said he had in mind for the store, this can only be good news... if the right party buys it.
That figure include the R.E.?
He can keep the kayaks.

[Flaptail]

In the old days that was the shop to do business with, along with my old friend MacMin Reed of course. I go in there now only when there is a sale on ( like the late fall 3 plugs for the price of two thingie). It used to be that no matter where you were in fishing season you could walk around in your waders all day long as did all the other fishermen. Breakfast at Nonny's or Capn' Elmers, Angelo's Market, the Goose etc., no one thought twice about it. Now you walk into the Goose with waders on and they look at you funny as you track mud all over the carpet. Carpet in a tackle shop? The bait Shack is the only place where you are most welcome to walk in with muddy/sandy waders and no one gives it a second thought. Oh yeah, and no Van Stals at the Bait Shack either, I like that too!

The Goose is cooked. Karl, Let's buy it and make it into a real tackle shop with an attached Liquor store. Bait and booze, the perfect combo!

[tlapinski]

Originally Posted by Flaptail

Bait and booze, the perfect combo!

... and boobs...

[jeffsod]

Let's buy it and make it into a real tackle shop with an attached Liquor store. Bait and booze, the perfect combo!

Throw in some adult videos and you might have an award winning combination


I have been buying mostly six inch sluggos there the last couple years because they have them in bulk. The prices on plugs just keep going up every year there. They definetely aren't catering to the local fisherpersons. I wanted a dozen of the kalin jigheads they usually have out loose in the bins but the bin for the size I wanted was empty. They had a bulk bag of one hundred or so in the size I wanted and I asked if it was ok to break into it. Nope can't do that. Saving that for someone to come in and drop a 100.00 for it. Huh? So you would rather save it on the chance one guy is going to happen in and buy a hundred when you could satisfy multiple customers by opening it now. Couldn't you tell the guy who wants a 100 to come back in a couple days when you get another and take some of the loose ones in the mean time? Where's the service there? This has actually happened to me more than once in the last couple of years.

This is why I would rather give my business to shops who appreciate it like M&D's!

[NIB]

3.9 for a retail biz where u can buy online all u need.Online services will put an end to most retail establishnents in the future.go ahead u would do better throwin ur money off the back of the grean monster.at least more people would get some.

[fishweewee]

Goose Hummock is situated on some prime real estate in an ideal location.

Guys fishing Orleans and Chatham - go to Goose.

Guys going to Race Point and points in between up Route 6 - very easy to stop by Goose first.

It'll be a sad day if it gets turned into something that is not a tackle shop anymore. Best selection of bombers on the East Coast (Red Top is #2 in that regard IMHO).

Wonder if business will suffer this year due to high gas prices (=fewer tourons to drop cash there).

-WW

[Flaptail]

Ben, the Bait Shack kills the goose in Bomber selection.

[Karl F]

The article I read in last months Cape Business... the vision of the current owner... was kayaks, kayks and more kayaks... eco tours, enviro tours, kayak based estuary tours all green and soft... the gun and ammo DEPT., has been regulated to a basement closet, the upstairs is waaaaaay toooo upscale, and like ya said flap, come in with waders or a fishy aroma... and you get looked at like your evil...
bait, booze, hmmmm .... wendy's is just across the street, theres a dunkys in the Stop and Shop across the street... rip the rugs out.... ....nahhh.
3.9 mill lotta ching.
I think that Willis and Bill Gould would really not like the Goose of today... old Francis Sargent might like it, but I doubt the Gould boys would approve...

[Karl F]

Originally Posted by Flaptail

Ben, the Bait Shack kills the goose in Bomber selection.

:uhhuh: Ed knows how to put the right ones on the shelf there, for sure.

Harry had a killer selection last year over at Nauset Angler too.... he had a bunch of blurple.....

[Pete_G]

We have a few carpets, but no one will look at you funny if you walk in with mud on your feet or your waders on.

Korkers are even OK as long as you stay on the rugs.

[partsjay]

$ 3.9 Million......that's it?

Don't know how any bait shop could pay for that rent.