I always look forward to around December for when BPS would send out their master catalog. I noticed in the past few years that from being TMI the catalog would be just some stuff and not much information. Like you have to go on the BPS website to find info on a particular reel or lure. Even their quarterly catalogs has changed tremendously and their sales flyer. I don't really see "good" sales in them and seems to just advertise items like agan reels and lures and such at regular retail prices. Even the black friday flyers are now so, so disappointing.

 

Back to my original topic, is the master catalog now gone??? I so enjoyed getting the catalog and perusing what's new, also back then; Cabelas had a somewhat master catalog. The Cabelas catalog was not quite as interesting as the BPS catalog but it at least showed items that BPS did not carry.

 

I know the pandemic put last years and I think the year before catalog to be delivered around end January or February. But I have a bad feeling that the master catalog might be gone like the 1980's Aqua net big hairdo's. 

 

Can anyone, especially an emp from BPS confirm if the master catalog still be around, or do I need to always have to bring my Android/Ipad tablet to the bathroom for time to peruse? Then having the wife tell(yell) at me my times up in the bathroom, cuz I spent more time in there than with her...perusing.

I have no idea about the BP catalog.

 

I dearly miss the hardback catalog Cabela's used to send me every year. BP stopped that.

I doubt they did away with it.  You can go to their website and sign up for which catalog/s you want to receive.  My guess is they went away from just sending it out to everyone to now just those that have specifically requested it.  I would give that a try.  Their master catalog is one of them you can select to receive.  

I used to love reading through the catalogs.  Now though, to fit more stock in, they don't show all of the colors.  I remember the ratltrap page was a full page.  At the bottom they had the 4 or 5 sizes from the 1/8th to the 1.5 or 2 oz version.  The top 80% of the page was the front half of every color all lined up nice and neat.  They did similar for lots of other baits.  Now, its 'refer to website for full colors'.  I don't even bother with the catalogs anymore.  

For 2023 they only show the saltwater catalog as available, all the rest are 2022.

I'd like to see TW put out a catalog. That thing would be as thick as War and Peace. 

No, BPS hasn't done away with the master catalog. They send them out a little later now. I got mine last year in February I think.

 

I used to be a BPS employee and still have a ton of friends there. They keep me pretty well up to date.

I got my first BPS Master Catalogue in 1978.  I read every word so many times, I think I had the whole thing memorized.  I'm sure I can still quote many of the lure descriptions.  If I would have studied my school books a fraction as much as that catalogue, I would have grown up to be a rocket scientist, a brain surgeon and a lawyer.  I didn't even study my high school football playbook as much as those magical pages of bass fishing dreams.  

I can confirm that there is a 2023 BPS Spring Master Fishing Catalog!! I work for a printing company and my plant printed the 600 page catalog over the past 3 weeks. I don’t know the perfect binding or mailing schedule but these catalogs should be hitting mailboxes soon.

Thank you for the great heads up @Steveo-1969.