Wow! It’s hard to believe it has been almost 20 years. It all started back in March of 1992 behind the OLCO gas station on Lake street. You remember don’t you? That itty bitty place crammed with everything we had at the time? Well, our ambitions got the better of us and in May of 1994 we knew we had to move to cater to the growing clientele and our dreams of a bigger and better store. That is when we moved into unit 6, just 2 doors down from where we are now. We were at this new location for years before we decided to upgrade once again to our present location in April, 2005.
Over the course of our 19 years, we were privileged to have 12 co-op students from surrounding high schools. They worked diligently over the summer months. Two of the students liked it so much, they just had to stay: Brandon and Josh. You can visit Peter’s and see their smiling faces to this day.
We can’t forget Gerard. He was one of our very first customers when we were behind the gas station. He liked us so much he decided to join the team and we are proud that he was part of our staff for so many years. He continues to help us out once in a while when he isn’t busy doing bass tournaments, and doing quite well we should add!
We have grown with the community over the past 19 years and we always enjoy seeing customers who were once little kids who, it seems only yesterday, had trouble seeing over the counter!
We have been blessed to be a part of local events and charities including: donations to the St. Catharines Game and Fish, proud sponsors of the St. Catharines Kids Day tournament held the 1st Saturday in May, the old Catfish Derby, and an advocate and advertiser of clubs and tournaments in the Niagara Region.
We welcome everyone to stop by and visit our store which is really a giant fishing playground where people can socialize about their favourite passion.
Sincerely,
Angela, Brandon, Scott and Josh