Aside from the Ohio River, there aren't many "big" fisheries right on the back door of the BPS in Cincinnati...or Louisville really for that matter. I think that matters very little.

You don't get customer service and folks "in the know" there like you do at the smaller local stores, I agree. Unfortunately, there's a real big segment of the population that is just used to that and it doesn't matter to them. When's the last time you were wowed by customer service from the teenage chick working the register at a Wal-Mart who hates her job and is jawing about what time she gets off? It's not hurting their business any. People go. They want a great big store, with a great big parking lot, all the latest goods, and some decent prices.

Don't think for a minute that a BPS in Central Kentucky wouldn't go. People from Ashland, to Pikeville, to Somerset would frequent it without fail. Those people aren't driving here to go to Backwaters or Angler's Outpost now. I say build it...creates jobs for the people building, maintaining, and working at the store...and it's not like BPS isn't already a competitor with the Backwaters and Angler's Outposts of the world through mail order. The people that go to Backwaters and Angler's and the like now will continue to go there as long as they keep doing what they do to keep stuff on the shelves and give folks good localized baits and good localzed customer service.

My two cents...