If you actually live near a cabela's, they have a ton of fishing stuff in the store. I bet close to 1/3 of the store is fishing related. It's pretty impressive. That is the main reason I shop at cabela's, they have a lot of inventory. The down side is they change thier inventory frequently and move the displays around alot! At least in the archery department anyways. If they had something you liked last season, don't count on it being there this season. And I garuantee it won't be in the same spot. I have a theory that cabela's is ran by either a gay couple, or women. They just can't quit moving the furniture around!
It's actually a marketing stratigy. If you can't find what you are looking for you have go looking for it, in turn looking at other things. They pray on peoples compulsiveness. You see something and go "Hey I could use that!". Next thing you know you have 50 dollars worth of stuff in your hands when all you went for is field tips.
I have never seen a basspro shop though, so I have nothing to compare it to.
Paul