I just watched 20 guys in 30min walk out of BPS with the $99 Pro Qualifier / Carbonlite combo.  Can't beat it.

Those Carbonlite rods are nice. You basically get the reel for free.

They feel nice and light, but I have yet to buy one.  

I'm proud of myself I did not spend any money today. Keep in mind I've bought 5 new rods since Black Friday. However I did have to pry a G Loomis E6x spinning rod from my hands. Only because my wife called and asked what I was doing. I really like the feel of it over the St Croix LTB rod.

I was shocked but saw a convincing post in the past that the combo PQ reel is different. Disappointing if true. 

I have heard that too about the combo PQ.  The rod is still worth the $100 and you can dump the reel on someone for $40 and be ahead.  

Is this sale just in stores? I couldn't find it online

Just now, SMITTY0045 said:

Is this sale just in stores? I couldn't find it online

I was looking at it online just this morning. 

Hootie

The PQ rod and reel combo is different than this spring classic combo. Instead of having the PQ on sale for $49, they have the Carbonlite rod and the good PQ reel for $99. It is a great deal. By all means it should cost $200. It is the same as the catalog option of the carbonlite and pq combo. Deffinatly not the black friday pq combo.

the ad was misleading on the combo, it says your choice of rod but my BPS only had a choice of 61/2' medium or a 7' heavy with \the choice of reel in 7.1 or 6.4. I still bought a combo because of the price.

6 hours ago, cottny27 said:

I just watched 20 guys in 30min walk out of BPS with the $99 Pro Qualifier / Carbonlite combo.  Can't beat it.

I'm one of them! In North Carolina anyway!?

Are you guys finding that the stores have much in stock?  The 2 closest to me don't have jack, especially reels.  They hardly have any Loomis except bluewater and even less St. Croix.  I'm hitting Orlando tomorrow on a Valentines trip and hope they at least have a few Curado's. Gasp, I'm actually wanting to by Shimano!

2 hours ago, 0119 said:

Are you guys finding that the stores have much in stock?  The 2 closest to me don't have jack, especially reels.  They hardly have any Loomis except bluewater and even less St. Croix.  I'm hitting Orlando tomorrow on a Valentines trip and hope they at least have a few Curado's. Gasp, I'm actually wanting to by Shimano!

I was pretty disappointed in the selection of rods they had. 90% of it was low level St Croix. They had a little better selection of G Loomis rods but not much. They had a few LTB rods for Croix but most stock was Triumph, Premiere and Mojo rods. Loomis they had a few E6x and a few bronzeback. No IMX, GLX, NRX.

Two words... TW

im gonna head up there today and looknaround.  i may pick up one of the new 6' tourney special rods to use for topwaters.  

just left basspro. madhouse in there. ended up leaving with a black camo terminator walking frog

22 hours ago, Fishin' Fool said:

 However I did have to pry a G Loomis E6x spinning rod from my hands.  I really like the feel of it over the St Croix LTB rod.

Me too. So much I bought 2 of them today. And 2 Chronarchs to put on them. Very impressive for a sub $200 rod and I very much appreciate the subtle styling.

17 hours ago, 0119 said:

Me too. So much I bought 2 of them today. And 2 Chronarchs to put on them. Very impressive for a sub $200 rod and I very much appreciate the subtle styling.

I just became the proud owner of a GLX today thanks to a previous post. I've really lost my mind. I can't stop buying.

Visited BPS this past Friday with a couple of old "trade in" rods.  There wasn't much to choose from in the St. Croix area, but since I live about 90 miles away from the store the manager was very comfortable processing the sale for a St. Croix I wanted and sending it to me with free shipping.  They are offering a nice trade in /sale deal on their Johnny Morris Signature rods ($149 rod for $104).  The JM 7'2" MH fast rod, to me, felt every bit as good in my hand as any of the higher priced rods.  It should be an excellent jig/worm rod.   

I have done many rod and reel trade ins over the years there on another rod or reel...but I assume that on a combo package such as the PQ with rod for $99 I can not get more discount due to trade in?

You are correct, the trade-in won't be applied to a combo price.

I'm heading over to pick up a Pflueger President for an ultralight outfit and will take advantage of the trade-in on that.

On ‎2‎/‎12‎/‎2016 at 5:42 PM, Ronald K Smith said:

the ad was misleading on the combo, it says your choice of rod but my BPS only had a choice of 61/2' medium or a 7' heavy with \the choice of reel in 7.1 or 6.4. I still bought a combo because of the price.

I wish my store had the 7' Heavy on the rack, I would have bought one immediately. The guy behind the counter was even willing to swap a righty for a lefty reel but said the rod had to be one from the sale rack.