Dewey Catchem and How - Minocqua, WI — Local services in Town of Minoqua

I'd recommend you go to another bait shop and avoid this place at all costs. I gave this bait shop a try for the first time this past Saturday 12/22. I walked in and the guy working (I believe it was Jeff) was up front talking to another customer. I brought in my own Frabill bait bucket to get some minnows and suckers. I walked back to the bait area and the guy working came back to help or so I had thought. I asked how big the larger shiners were. He just said "big." I said well can you scoop some up so I can see (it's a bit hard to tell when they are all swimming around in a water tank). So he reluctantly scooped some up for me to look at. I got 1/2 dozen large shiners and 1/2 dozen walleye suckers. I'm then walking up to the front counter with my bait bucket and the guy working says you have a white label on your bucket. I'm thinking to myself, who cares. I'm like yeah... He then says that looks like the bait bucket from this store. I told him no, it's not from this store. This is my bucket and I got this from St. Croix as a promo item for buying a new shanty. He then grabs my bucket and looks at the label since he didn't believe me and acts like I'm trying to steal "his" bucket. Then after looking at the label the guy finally figures out that it says St. Croix on it. At this moment I'm thinking this guy is nuts and is accusing a customer of stealing from his store. No buddy I'm not trying to pull a fast one on you. At that moment I should have just dumped the minnows on the floor and walked out, but I guess I was just in shock about the whole incident. I finally did get up to the counter and asked how the fishing was. All this guy says is I have no idea, I have not been out yet this year. I'm thinking to myself... Well congratulations the new winner of the lack of a personality of the year award. I even bought wax worms from the guy and he still had the conversation skills of a rock. Here I was just hoping I had found a new bait shop to go to, but obviously that is not the case after this horrible experience. I later went to another bait shop and the prices were several dollars less than this place. If I could give a negative star review I would...

Poor experience here. The guy behind the counter was really rude. This was my first time in the store. I am also new to ice fishing. I asked the guy if he knew what the fish were biting on. He replied, how would I know, I'm not ice fishing. This was very obvious as I walked into a bait shop not the lake. As the guy selling the bait he should know what others are buying. As someone whl has foshed for years, i am an avid bait shop visitor. Every bait shop owner ive interacted with knows exactly how to respond to someone wanting to know what bait the fish are currently biting on. He then goes on to tell me I want him to give me the answer so I won't have to be responsible for my own failures. This isn't true at all, I just wanted to know what type of bait to get. It was a very weird and unnecessary interaction. If the guy doesn't like people, he shouldn't be in the bait business. He also made me purchase wax worm as my total didn't reach $10. I support small business, but not one with...

My boyfriend bought a very expensive live scope from here that was already put together and when he got home, the product didn’t work. He worked on it for hours. Eventually, he concluded it was missing an entire wire that essentially rendered the product useless. Never used it once and brought it back the NEXT day explaining the situation. The employees said no returns on electronics and would not even try and diagnose or fix the problem THEY made. Owner absolutely refused to help. Luckily, a kind customer in the store helped him figure out the issue. Otherwise, he would’ve been out $3,000 for a faulty product due to Dewey’s error. I would absolutely not recommend this store - go anywhere else if you want working products and any sort of...