A shop built one honest sale at a time.
KCS Outfitters started in a garage in 2014. It's still run by the same family that started it, on the same principle: treat folks the way you'd want your daddy treated when he walks into a hardware store.
Meet Kevin.
Kevin Michael Savoie grew up in Carencro, the third of four brothers, none of whom could sit still on a Saturday. He worked the oilfield for fourteen years before a 2013 layoff sent him back to the thing he'd always loved more anyway — fixing reels in the garage.
Eleven years later, the garage became a shop, the shop became a small business, and the small business is still — somehow — exactly what Kevin wanted it to be: a place where you walk in a stranger and leave knowing more than you came in with.
He lives a mile from the shop with his wife Andrea, daughter Maya, and a brown lab named Roux who has unrestricted access to the showroom.
From garage to Lebesque Road.
The garage years
First storefront
Guided trips begin
Move to Lebesque
Still family-run
Four rules of the house.
If you don't need it, we'll tell you. We've turned away more sales than we've made — and somehow we're still here.
Buy a reel from us, bring it back in three years for a free re-spool. That's not a promo, that's the deal.
Our suppliers are people we know by name. We stock Louisiana brands wherever they can hold their own.
Half our floor time is just explaining how things work. Kids included. Especially kids.
