For me, I like to buy at local shops but when I need bulk items such as hooks I order through Cabelas. I get the best price on hooks (qty 50) even with the postage. The drive down from Bellingham doesn't make it worth it to go to GI Joe's, Sportco, etc....unless I am already down that way. I have found that the local guys running the stores at Boater's World and LFS Marine in Bellingham can be very competitive with their tackle (they all are all local anglers). I'd like to repeat that LFS Marine has really enlarged their salt water tackle shelves over the past 2 years. Yeagers is a famous local shop but, for the things I need to buy, I have found they are not very price competitive (and I hate to say it....they are lacking in customer service and attitude in the tackle/hunting dept's sometimes).