| Betty
and Jim Zeiner, Sr.
started the original Zeiner's store July 1, 1953 in a garage
next to the family home a couple miles south of Wichita. To get
to the store, customers had to leave the highway and travel a
quarter-mile on an often pothole filled dirt road. The family
no longer operates the original store. |
The Zeiner family
has been helping
anglers fill their needs since 1953. |
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Deb Zeiner was introduced to fishing by her dad and spent
her younger years fishing with him. In additon to being involved
in the tackle business, Deb is an outdoor writer.
Jim Zeiner, Jr. grew up in the business and spent many of the early
years on the other end of a seine with his dad and making Magic
CheeZe, a bait developed
by Jim Sr.
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Deb
and Jim have been
operating Zeiner's Bass Shop since 1986. The Bass Shop has been
located at Gilbert and Washington since 1989, the same year it
became a Bass Pro Shop dealer.
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| David
Johnson, a long
time Zeiner's customer joined the staff in early 2003 as a sales
associate. Dave enjoys all types of fishing and spends much of
his spare time tying flies when not fishing. |
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| Ben
Zeiner started
working in the Bass Shop at age ten in 1985 and spent his high
school years traveling with his dad, Jim Jr., to outdoor shows
each winter to promote the store. |
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| James
Buzzard, Deb and
Jim's grandson helps out in the store when he has a chance. His
favorite job is running the cash register. His favorite kind
of fishing is for bass. He hasn't mastered the fly rod for his
bass fishing yet. |
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