FFS Crappy tire experience keeps getting even more crappy.

[Nink]

I tend to avoid Crappy Tire if I can help it and the one time I decide to give them another go I find they are still very deserving of their title. All I needed was fishing line, a less than $10 product, which was kept behind a lock and key inside a cabinet. Spoke with two staff to have it opened neither, were very happy people; had misery stamped on their forheads. Dude who opened the cabinet even had to walk the product to the cashier so I could pay for it, couldn't trust me to handle it myself until it was paid for; again its a $10 product. So anyways I make the purchase and get home about to put it on my reel when I check the manufactured date; late 2021. FFS Monofilament has a shelf life of about 4-5 years in ideal conditions. Moral of the story, when considering Crappy Tire, consider something else. Hindsight being what it is, perhaps best to stick with a dedicated sporting store for line and tackle, they might treat you better than a common criminal.

 

[Trudeaus coke dealer]

I despise ordering things from Amazon. Every single time I try to use brick and mortar I am reminded why Bezos is rich.

 

[Glowie]

Its called Cambodia tire

 

[mozzer]

I stopped going to Chinadian Tire in my area when the old owners retired, and the new owners stopped selling guns and ammo in my area.

They closed 2 smaller stores and built 1 big one, which basically is a glorifed walmart with a tire shop instead of groceries, and has just as many jeet employees - if not more.

 

[Chobes]

I have a crappy tire cc so I use the points from buying gas to fishing gear and things for the boat. That's about the only time I go in.

@Nink I switched to using braided line with fluorocarbon leaders and never looked back.

 

[Nink]

I was strongly considering doing the braided + fluoro leader too. Even priced it out. Was only three times the cost as I intended but at least it would last longer than mono.

 

[Chobes]

I held back for years because I didn't trust tying the two different lines together but its not actually that difficult. I run 10lb braid and 10lb leader on most of my all purpose rods. Landed a 22lb catfish on it with breaking off.

What are you fishing for? Things are just getting started here with a bit of crappie fishing and trout opening soon.

 

[Nink]

@Chobes

second Saturday of May Pickerel and Pike open up in my neck of the woods. Trout opens end of april too so i may have more options though i care to target pickerel before all else.

 

[Chobes]

@Nink once its open, I mostly target walleye/pickerel as well. Live leech on a floating jig head is my favorite way to fish them up north or trolling nightcrawlers on Lake Erie.

 

[Nink]

@Chobes

Im planning to fish the lower grand river from caledonia down to lake erie. If I had a boat I'd troll with nighcrawler harness, I use to pull them out of the Magnetawan River up in Burks Falls as a kid with the nightcrawler harness. planning on some slip bobber or drop shot setups to start

 

[Norman.Cay]

Support your local rod and gun shop or you won't have one. However I don't recommend patronizing a Canadian online retailer since they routinely rape customers on shipping. Fuck I hate that underhanded small-print bullshit.

The locked cabinet and walking product to the cashier; It came out of the gun cabinet it's policy that anything that comes from there is too dangerous to have in your possession... until you buy it. Seeing idiocy like locked shelves makes me never want to do business with stores that do that, so I try not to.

Amazon, I fucking hate them too but I hate being jerked around with brick and mortar shopping more. They only places I want to patronize is Peavey Mart and McMaster Carr.

 

[Nink]

Yeah when the guy was asking me if I was done shopping I just said yes because I didn't want to give them any more money for the hassle than they had aready given me. I was already sour having to seek someone out to make such a mediocre purchase.

 

[Radicalfarminist]

You need to get $9 socket from a locked case too and have it walked to the front, it's not just the gun case.

 

[MuchoRelax0]

Little things like that I just order on Amazon. Not even worth my time going to a store that will likely not have what I want, cost more, lock it up or make me go through some loophole and wait longer.

Yea I don’t like supporting Amazon and its army of imported tfw drivers but since I’m stuck here I’m allowed to participate in the game too.

 

[Nink]

I figured I'd at least get to handle the product before purchase but given the nature of the new normal in shopping at brick and mortar i cannot justify the hassle vs buying online. Really didn't expect them to take 5 years to move some fishing line.

 

[Glowie]

I order through the web, canadian elbows up tire is over priced and generally shit

 

[Nink]

I was valuing the in and out proposition of not having to wait and getting it in hand asap; Old world values it seems.

 

[Glowie]

Yea for sure man, sometimes its good to have for little shit anyways

 

[ayn_rands_ghost]

The Crappy Tire flyer that came with the mail actually has non refrigerated food advertised now. I was kinda surprised. I do not ever look at their flyer really. I hate them. I tried to buy a BBQ and what a shit show so I left. It used to be way better when they had White people working there and not all jeets...

 

[Nink]

Oddly enough, all three employees I dealt with were white.

 

[border_humper]

We went last weekend and had a young, female pleasant white checker. Didn’t have the item we went therefor in stock so a wasted trip.

 

[TOPDAWG]

Just buy some braided spider wire you'll never need to replace that fucker ever again.

The only issue is if you ever gets hung up don't try to pull that shit with your hand cuz that fucker will slice your finger open.

I will give cdn tire some credit at least the one near me which I haven't been to in a long time but last time I was there it was mostly still white kids working.

 

[Nink]

I'm deff considering braided. It is thinner than mono which is what rods are rated for. I could perhaps get away with 20-30 lbs braided for a rod rated for 6-15 lbs mono without clunking up the setup.

 

[TOPDAWG]

I’m not kidding take a small knife with you, man. That stuff will cut you like a razor blade if you try to pull on it. What reel are you using? I’ve always used spinning reels, but I tried a bait caster a few years ago and liked those a lot dad give me a old one he had. Forking great if you've not used one. I use a good old-fashioned spin cast with a mini rod for ice fishing.

 

[Nink]

@TOPDAWG

I got an old school Ryobi SX4n Silver Cloud from the 70s-80s; a spinning reel made in Japan, built like a rock. I tend to keep a filleting knife in my tackle along with nail clippers which i use to prepare line for new setups. Never used a baitcaster and frankly I'm content enough with my spinning reels, I don't really see a need to use anything else


Simple reel, time tested.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_B4ip8kp-8

 

[Chobes]

@TOPDAWG I cut my hand last season pretty good from trying to pull a snagged braided line. I learned to wrap the line around a stick and use that to pull the snag and you can get it to pop. You lose too much from cutting but sometimes you have no choice.

 

[TOPDAWG]

@Chobes my thing is I'm no environmentalist but I hate snapping line in the water I always try to get it if I can. I've been pretty lucky when I've gotten snagged I've been able to get my line I've only had my line snap a few times in my life.

The only thing is fishing in Alberta absolutely sucks. All you can catch is Pike in most places I really do not enjoy catching those fuckers. I do miss Maryland fishing where I used to live go to a big ass River or something catch largemouth bass small mouth bass go to certain bodies of water catch catfish.

I hate catching Pike the one thing they always want to swallow the damn hook and if you grab that bitch by the lip wrong if that thing twist you're bleeding quick.

 

[BeaverTown]

Dude who opened the cabinet even had to walk the product to the cashier so I could pay for it, couldn't trust me to handle it myself until it was paid for; again its a $10 product.

lmao

Same thing happened when I wanted to buy a cheap pack of 3 lithium batteries

 

[CaptainTrouble]

Canadian Tire is a franchise and just like all franchises, the quality of the product/service depends heavily on the quality of the staff hired. In the smaller communities that Canadian Tire exists in where most people are still White (getting rarer and rarer nowadays but still exists a little) such that the employees are mostly White, the store is pretty alright. You'll notice the same thing with fast food. If the fast food place is all White people, the quality of your burgers + fries goes way up.

The issue isn't so much the stores themselves, especially when it's a franchise that has less top-end bloat, but it's entirely the quality of the humans being employed. Corporations without a franchise model start to go to shit all at the same time once their HR + executive team gets full of non-Whites such that they hire non-Whites for the important roles. A lot of tech companies are going through this right now. Franchises can still somewhat combat against top-down destruction from DEI because of the more decentralized nature but only in areas where the employees hired directly for the franchise are White.

All deterioration in quality of products/services in Western countries can be directly correlated with women and non-Whites being added to the workforce.

 

[BeerAndOil]

My local Canadian tire did the same thing for a jig saw, but then I had to show my receipt to the 6’7” Arab security guard with his mall cop tactical vest and belt with baton to get out the door.

 

[Chobes]

I went to a recently built Canadian Tire and I had to laugh at all the abandoned covid drive-thru infrastructure they had on the back of the building. They really went all in on the "new normal" thing and I hope that it cost millions.