Just a reminder to those who are aware and to those to don't know about the Massachusetts Striped Bass Associations annual Sportfishing Expo at the Independence Mall in Kingston Ma. this coming weekend, March 27th and 28th. There will be over 100 vendors in attendance selling everything you will need for the upcoming season and also many informative seminars on both Saturday and Sunday. Bring the wife and kids along as the Show is right inside the Independence Shopping Mall with many great stores available to shop and enjoy along with the show itself. If the Mrs. or even the Mr. for that matter is not into fishing, send him or her along to shop in the mall while you enjoy the best show of the season. For more information, go to MSBA.net or see the home page here on the site. The show is always a great time so come out and enjoy and bring some friends or just plan on running into a few while you are there. Hope to see you all at the show.:wave:

the independence mall or as my kids call it the Looooong Maalllllll. I'll be there, not sure which day, but no kids, mine are still too young to let me look at stuff for longer than 5 seconds.

I'll be there sunday with my brother and a few friends. Looking forward to "Bassmaster's" & "Fish_Eye's" seminars!

be there sat when the doors open... when ever that is ?

I'll be there on Saturday around 1:00 or so. Like to get there earlier but My son is racing in the District Pinewoods in the morning. Hope to meet a few of you.

I do believe the Sea Monkeys will be there.:D :D :D :D

Hopefully Sunday. Woman's and mother's birthdays are saturday, so I was instructed that I was not allowed to go on her birthday. Means it will be slim pickn's come sunday. Oh well. I don't really need anything anyhow, unless some one is selling eels wholesale.......
Disappointed that I won't be able to hear all the lectures. Usually extremely interesting and worth while. Especially this year with a new line up of speakers.
There's always next year.

I'll be there Saturday.....and then hopefully going flounder fishing afterwards if the weather co-ops.......

be there saturday when the doors open!;)

what , when , where , who and sometimes why ?

I volunteer to pass out flyers in front of Victorias Secret.

I'll help with that Beetle

Originally posted by BEETLE
I volunteer to pass out flyers in front of Victorias Secret.

I volunteer to pass out..in front of Victorias Secret..:D :D

Lightning Just Struck!

How about someone with good skills running a TV tape of the seminars and then burning them and making the resultant discs available?
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:wave:

Saturday, doors open at 10:00 am.

See ya then, then!:D

Keep the coffee hot, see ya 10 AM Sat.
earlier actually, to scour the parking lot for ho'in purposes ;)

need a rake an shovel with that ho?

I'll be there, Moose where's the bar brother monkey? You bringing the banannas??:happy: :laughs:

1st thing saturday - I will be there looking for bigfish.

Wow - sounds a little like I am heading towards a beach!

-IWK

Originally posted by capesams
need a rake an shovel with that ho?

take a look in the back of my truck sometime ;)
always carry a rake and shovel, and a ho :D

some one say Ho

:boots: Saturday.

I'll be there both days, buried in rubber, but I believe in safe fishing:).

Hopefully by noon Saturday.

Sunday AM :( Hoping to get there Sat AM, but lots of family stuff going on. Is there a place, besides the bar, to meet up w/ folks from this site? Any particular booth? This will be my first time to the show!!!! I am psyched!!!:D :D :D
Brandon

:D

Yup, that's what I'm talking 'bout Dave...

:confused:

Guess Black works well out there.....;)

I am the Show Chair and will be there all weekend. You can tell me as the big guy with the bullhorn...Please say hello...


A;so, I suggest guys meet at the S-B Booth

I'll be there Saturday :bounce: :wave:

S-B will have a booth there too - So Swing by and say :wavey:

I plan on making the voyage to kingston mall sat morn, then go for a test drive on a new regulator out on the cape in the afternoon, its gonna be a good day.....:D

The AquaSkinz boys will be there!

My partner Kadir and I will be there and we are looking forward to meeting you all! Don't forget to stop by our booth and fill in our FREE drawing... On April 15, somebody is gonna walk away with a first prize: AquaSkinz Top and the second prize will be a surfbag. ;)

Last year...we had a nonfisher win our top... :nopain:
So let's make sure it doesn't happen this year.


"Crazy" Alberto
nonstopfisher@aol.com

I hoed in that parking lot last year karl .

Ill be there saturday . I am never late !

Now it looks like Saturday. So Larry I will have your catalog with me. ANd I will have a few more if anyone wants to acquire one. Anyway, BF, you will be there both days correct?:D

I will be there Steve, thanks and I look forward to seeing you there.:btu:

I actually will be there every second of the entire weekend, Friday for setup and both show days!:sleeps: Makes for a long and tiring weekend.

Baitcaster & I will have a booth there so please stop by and say hello!!!!

Bassman18 and I will be there. CAL, Weymouth Commuter Rail, right?

I am definitly in.. dad volenteered me and amy to help out as the striper swipers booth... ill be there pretty much all day sunday

Make sure you all stop by the MSBA Junior's/grand raffle table(Upstairs) to say hello. I will be working it for a good part of both days.

Or look for the greying guy wearing a red MSBA t-shirt with "Striper Swipers" on the back, I will be working somewhere.

Stop buy, say hello, and maybe even buy a chance and support the junior members at the same time with a raffle ticket purchase.

HUGE raffle prizes this year !!!

:happy: :happy: :happy:

The Pants Man............................................... ................................

Hey BM....why do they call you "The Pants Man"?:confused: :huh:

Originally posted by BigFish
Hey BM....why do they call you "The Pants Man"?:confused: :huh:


BF you have never seen ''the pic '':confused: :confused: :confused:


http://www.striped-bass.com/albums/dgs/aax.sized.jpg

Thats what I thought.....just checking!:eek:

I'll be there Saturday with the Usual Suspects, (DZ, Uncle Zeke and Too Tall EdB), we're driving up together from the Island.

If ya don't know what I look like, I'll be the short Italian/Pork-a-cheese guy with white hair and mustache (me and Clamma together look like a coupla snowshoe wabbits) - I'll also be standing next to EdB who's tough to miss in a crowd. Myself, I'm a little ...uhhh...vertically challenged. :p

Hey Alberto :wavey: I'll see ya at your seminar and stop by the booth - I got a little something for ya from Rho Dylan to hang in the 'Skinz corporate office suite on Lawn Guyland.

Moses, hope to see ya there - and run into the rest of you S-B guys I missed at the RISAA show.

See ya Saturday :ss: I'm lookin' forward to it, never been before.

Originally posted by missing link
BF you have never seen ''the pic '':confused: :confused: :confused:




Hey,,,,,,, Hes fishing in his pajamas !!!!!!!!!

at least he aint nekkid ! this time !

:smash:

Wonder if those pants were pre Kelly's Roast Beef, or post.....

Steve if those are Gibbs cat I would like one please.

MSBA Plug Project Debut!...

Thanks to the contributions and support of some great individuals,
I am going to debut the current entries for the Plug Project Collection at the MSBA show this weekend.

For those who have contributed to this collection who have not given me a brief bio about yourself, and how long you have been building your own, please try to PM me as soon as you can so I can add your information to the book that will accompany this display.

This project is still young, and I encourage anyone who is...
or has... built their own plugs to make their mark in this tradition by becoming a part of this travelling display.

This is a unique opportunity to feature the talents and innovation of plug makers at all skill levels, and I look forward to seeing your signature creations as a part of this growing collection.

Thanks again to those who have come on board with this so far.

It's not too late to get your work into the display debut for Saturday & Sunday.

For those attending the event who would like to add their work to the collection, feel free to bring your addition with you and I'll mount it into one of the cases there.

If you are interested in joining this collaborative project, please PM me to make arrangements to join the ranks of others who share in the satisfaction of building their own lures, and for those who are inspired by the innovative work of others, and for those who simply share in the love of the sport!

Contact information is available in the Plug forum under the PLUG PROJECT UPDATE thread.

Thanks again!

Bliz :)

Hay Dave.........you giving them there plugs to everyone who listens to your speach ????????? :laughs:

:)

:btu: :humpty: :jump1:

twinkie:p

BM...you buy me a coffee:D

BM, iluvspots told me he was going to be there to heckle you. :hihi:

what Time You be there, Im going to come b4 door open to yap at You.
what kinda coffee?????
Dave.............

:hihi:

hey Ben you better find an alternate route . and the same goes for anyone passing west to east thru Ct . we lost another bridge on 95 last night .

Be there early sat. From CT , you could go up 84 to Mass oike and then down to rt 3.

Ragfly and I are going tomorrow. See yah there, Salty.

Been a long time since I've seen the Maineacs! See you there Bill.

Originally posted by chris L
hey Ben you better find an alternate route . and the same goes for anyone passing west to east thru Ct . we lost another bridge on 95 last night .

Yeah, I heard about that burning oil tanker wreck in B'port. I was going to take 84 anyhoo.

-B

I should be there unless I run outta $$. Nothing worse than going to a show like that and not having some pocket $ for fun. ;)

http://www.topeuro.co.uk/blagger/the_duel.html

Originally posted by fishweewee
Yeah, I heard about that burning oil tanker wreck in B'port. I was going to take 84 anyhoo.

-B

Now I have to figger an easy way to get from 84 to Pawtucket, other than the usual two-hour scenic vista of US 44 from Hartford.

I don't have the stomach for all of the overflow traffic that'll be taking the Merritt. With 95 open, the Merritt is a fuster-cluck on a Friday. It'll be 100 times worse tonite.

Seems a waste to back-track down 91 to New Haven once you're already in Hartford--any other alternate routes to get from 84 to 95 east of the closed area?

route 8 south . thats the best west of new haven . to pawtucket 84 to 90 to 495 to 95

Yeah, I was afraid of that. It's still 2 more hours no matter how ya slice it, when Hartford and Providence are only 60 miles apart as the crow flies. 2 hours as the car crawls on 44, or two hours on the Great Circle route via Sturbridge and Marlboro.

It boggles the mind that in the year 2004, there is still no modern highway between Providence and Hartford :wall:

thats the state of Ct for ya . they probably were going to but Rowland put the money into his lake front cottage.

The route we wound up taking actually wasn't that bad---or wouldn't be bad on a "normal" Friday night. Out of the City, we took the Hutch to I-684, north to I-84 in Danbury, then we took I-691 in Waterbury which joins 91 about 15 miles north of New Haven, and picked up 95 at the Q-Bridge.

However, there was an accident on 684 in Katonah, plus 2 miles of merge delay getting onto 84. Then stop and go thru Danbury. Instead of going straight thru to Pawtucket, we stopped for the night in Branford, then went right to the show. But that route is something good to know if I have to make a Friday evening run up this way.

My sister has a really nifty new Dell that I'm "borrowing" :D