Bob’s Bait Shop

Like another reviewer, I went to Bob’s for one reason only: Crawdads (crayfish). I called at 12:19 PM (looking at my phone log) to ask if they had blue crayfish. The woman that answered, «yes.» I told her I was on my way, would be there in an hour or so to pick up 3 lbs of blue crayfish.
Because I was taking my 3 year old on an «adventure,» I took the scenic River Road for part of the trip and stopped at one of the huge communications towers to take a picture. Since an hour had passed since I first called Bob’s, I called again to (a) make sure they knew I was still on my way and (b) confirm they had the 3 lbs of blue crayfish. I called at 1:25 pm and this time a man answered. I told him I was 30 minutes away, called earlier, and wanted to make sure they had the 3 lbs of blue crayfish. He answered, «yes, I have them.»
Great! Or so I thought. I arrived 30 minutes later, walked in, and said, «hi, I’m here for my 3 lbs of blue crayfish.» The guy there asks me, «are you the one that called.» Yep, that would be me: the mofo that called TWICE about the 3 POUNDS of BLUE CRAYFISH! He simply tells me «I’m sorry I wasn’t able to get them.» That’s it.
Well, at least I had a nice 60+ mile round trip drive to your lovely bait shop. Of course, had I known that Bob’s did not have my crayfish I would have simply waited until tomorrow morning to drive 16 miles round trip to the farmer’s market near South Side Park. Thanks Bob’s, thanks a lot.

I came here for one reason and one reason only. The crawfish. The lady that operated the shop didn’t understand me for some reason. I asked her to buy 20 lbs of crawfish and she said we could only purchase 5 lbs of blue crawfish and 5 lbs of red crawfish. I did not understand why? I told her I was buying the the 20lbs because It was for me and friends and still she gave me the same answer. I drove an hour from sacramento expecting 20 lbs of crawfish and left with only 10lbs. So lame.

Crawfish are bigger here than at Cliffs in Freeport, and a steady, regular supply available. All the fixings you need to have a successful crawfish boil at your fingertips… Oh by the way, crawfish .35 more a pound, give a call before you head in.

Best place around for bait hands down! He has the main items you need like sinkers and hooks. don’t get your hopes up for anything else name brand. To his defense its not called bobs fishing store. its bobs bait shop. He is the master baiter!!!

Bob’s deserves a real review, because he is in fact… THE MASTER BAITER!
(The name of the shop is the actual reason we went to Isleton to fish.)
We rolled into the small town of Isleton at about 10:30am this morning, and off to Bob’s we went. I managed to pick up from braided spectra line for about 30% less than what is charged in SF, along with some great Senkos. Since we didn’t know the area, we figured let’s talk to Bob and find out where to go…
Then he proved, he is IN FACT, THE MASTER BAITER. He told us exactly where to go, exactly what bait to use, exactly how big to cut it… 4 hours later we came back for water… hot, tanned, reeking of anchovy, and waving our hands around talking about the 30+ fish we caught and released, EACH. (We also hooked onto some sturgeon, but they released themselves. Heh.)
Bob is my new hero, my anchovy touting hero. This was probably one of the best fishing days of my life, action wise… and he knew exactly what we needed to do to get to the fish.

I about laughed my arse off when I bought a water and then looked at the sign.
Go ahead… look at it.