Just Returned from the RISSA Show
 

I enjoyed the show but I only had an hour and a half worth of time to spend there. Captn Don's booth was a zoo with people going after the Hab's and Bernzy plugs. Not many left at 1:30. Did not like the non-fishing booths like Gutter Helmet and Sears. What is up with having booths like that there? Overall, well run and organized show with plenty of room in the aisles. :kewl:

It wasn't put on by Mass. Striped Bass Assn. :hihi:

Gutter Helmet and Sears??? :huh: Glad I will miss the show in that case......I want to buy gutters or go to Sears I can do that anytime! ;)

Why don't they have fishing tackle at Home Shows? :huh:

Funny you should mention that, I was talking to my Bro-in-law the other day he said he was at the Home show a couple of weeks back and they had a raffle for Fishing lures....said he thought of me when he saw it so he put some tickets in for it......I thought that was an odd place for fishing tackle when he mentioned it

Whats good for the goose...as hey say!

Show was good, early bird got the habs! Capt Dons booth was a joke early. Habs and Tattoo's booth was nice, some new paints John has are out of this world. Really no deals to be had, full retail and then some.

Thanks Warren

Tha's gonna turn people off fast. next it will be Cell phone , long distance service and timeshare condo's there. Same thing happened to the Worcester show starting about 7 years ago.

There was a raffle at the Providence boat show for timeshare condos..what a joke. :yak6:

there was a booth for Verizon DSL :hs:

i thought the show was great. i saw the gutters, and other crap and kept on walkin ;)

Just got back from the show, we were THE FIRST ones in the door and I was the FIRST one at Capt. Don's booth....got everything I was after Hab's , Hab-a-Tat and Bernzy pluggage, oh yeah, venison too, wicked good :kewl: ...Hey, we even got to talk with the Govenor, whoever he was :huh: .
Got some Bugger wood and J.P. got a free t-shirt, with the secret handshake :laughs:
It was a GREAT show, you can tell a lot of work goes into it, all you RISSA guys should be proud :claps: Yeah, I saw the gutters too, big deal :huh:
Now bring on the fish :kewl: :smokin: johnny

Got into the show around 930 am ;) scored allot of habs and tattoo plugs, aquaskinz stuff, a new wader belt and other things, also met allot of great people there too and ran into allot of people that I have fished with, it was a good time...The bar was a nice touch too :gu:

Got to the show when they opened the doors, was about 15 people back.

Dropped $200 in about a half hour. Finally got some Habs needles, 8 of them actually. Bought one of #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&s Squids and got a T-shirt with the secret handshake. Got home, ordered 2 more habs from Joe Lyons. Total cost of todays purchases $250 and change. It's good to be single :kewl: Spent no money at the Gutter Helmet booth.

Missed the bar though, very sad. :gu:

Finally met the famous Mustache man himself. Hey Habs, when the stripers show up at the War College, I'll take you out there (just brings squids).

I just got back myself. Lots of booths there and plenty of fishing stuff. It was weird to see the oddball booths there but it was no big deal, just walk right past them, nope, don't need a mortgage. I wanted to trade plugs to the gutter helmut guy for gutters for my addition, he wasn't biting.
We stayed long enough to see the Hab and Tat girls at Habs and Tattoo's booths. Had a few laughs with Charlie Cinto, what a character he is. Saw many familiar faces. I didn't see Eben though :( Fun afternoon :kewl:

OhI forgot, Peter, I saw the needle you made in the Aquaskinz booth - nice, looked like birch.

ah slip i would have loved to have seen you.. I have a phil lesh CD i burned for U, and could have brought it up... oh welll... i'll give it to you at one of the Legs..... :D

send it with your plugs to canalman, he'll get it to me :D

I don't have an Eben plug :( you have many of mine.

damn swap plugs :smash: I gotta re-do em asap.i'll give dave the disk... its nothing great, but its Phil :D

yep it was a great show // stayed around 7.5 hours //the food @#$%^&* sucked // bought some things I wanted & some that I didn,t .<<><,.,

saw alot of guys from the site / [Great to see ya DoNM] // it great to go into a show / knowing ya gonna have a good time seeing people /better yet to see 6 --- 8 booths that were guys from the site /

Yep there were a few booths that weren,t fishing related / but like the web --don,t look at it /////////// met some nice wives & girlfriends /thats always a {BONUS}}

I was in no hurry to leave /my Cell phone died & I really didn,t want to hear it //also I didn,t know what level my truck was on ///soooooooo I had to give some time for the garage to clear out //////

What a surprize <>,I had a great @#$%^&* time ///

Janette ><>< where,s #^&#^&#^&#^&?????????/
the motel room wasn,t the same after you left ,
Remember call when Dave is working again //we,ll {{CLAM}} together :vamp:

sorry I missed ya clammer.
Saw lots of faces from the board there.

You just had to know where to look :drool:

Your Right, a lot of people at this one :smash: Besides it's proof that you can't please everyone no matter how hard you try. Hope you enjoyed the forum anyway.

Armand

I have an Eben plug.... :hidin:

Thanks Eb..... :kewl:

I need a Slip plug though... :jump1:

Show Parking
 

How's the parking at the show? Is there parking on the street? Can a Chevy Tahoe fit in the parking garage? What's the fee?

Alot of faces and great people and more tackle than any of the other shows. Some of the rows had as much as five tackle shops. Hopes it stays that way.

And yes the venison was good Thanks John

$10 for my van at the lot next to the show, i'd say the same for the Tahoe. $7 for a regular vehicle

$8 bucks for all day in the attached parking garage /// :hs:

Guys,

I just got back from the show manning the MSBA Booth. I thought it was the best of the large type shows i have seen in a long time. Yes there were filler booths and some empties, but that is how you put on the big shows in todays market. All in all it was smoothly run and a good job by the guys from RISAA.

I am the guy at the head of the MSBA show and the two are just different. I think RISAA did about as good a job putting on a large show as can be done in todays world. The MSBA show is more of a fishing event or gathering than a show. both have their own plus and minus points but hey, we can all attend both.

It was good seeing everyone all day. A friend from another part of my life ended up working a booth for a new charter boat and finally came to see me about 6pm. He was amazed that I seemed to be talking to people all day, but that is how many people I knew that went through. Definately a good time.

I parked in Providence Place mall walk across the sky bridge and through the westin to the show. Usually you have to validate the parking ticket to get a reduced rate. They still only charged me $1 for 3 hours.

I had a good time
 

I hung out with Habs and Tattoo, Point Jude Joe and Pete from the Saltwater Edge, I bought a cool print of off Crafty - at the Anglers Art booth....

Habs and Tattoo had two spokesmodels handing out flyers - they did not speak much nor they did not know anything about fishing. Nobody seemed to mind....More importantly, they looked like they did not know anything about fishing.....

Joe, I was hoping to get a chance to meet you at the show but I just missed you at the Habs/Tattoo both. The "TAT" t-shirt was pretty amusing. I looked for the angler's art booth and couldn't find it. I just bought a condo and need some decorations. I bought a print that I really like from Benjamin McCormick. I may need to place an order from Crafty. I finally scored a herring spook and lime over yellow habs 2 oz needle, I'm ready for spring now.

just got home from the show.i had a good time got to meet charly cinto and look at his huge fish.and how about the habatat girls.whent over to the quaker lane booth and got some habs needles thanks steve.got to talk to seawolf .then i pick up a salty bugger plug.it was cool seeing the old pics at the gibbs booth.pretty good show .snake

We went today and it was a good show. Didn't really notice the iodd things like a big Candy seller about 6 booths long. There was tons of fishing stuff and lots of boats. Spent money , saw friends and had fun.

HAD A GREAT TIME


Janette and I had a great time at the show yesterday! Good to see some familiar faces and meet some new ones. Got some great shtuff! A speacial thanks to John (Habs), Mike (Tattoo) and Dom, had a great time hanging at your booth. Now she really wants to get the pass and go to the Cape. Was great meeting Charlie and seeing the fish! Met Kadir, got to see Crafty and the Mrs, the Point Jude brothers, Pete from SWE, and Iron Mike again. Also got to see my bud Joe outside the house (only kidding Joe). Clammer, Janette said it was great seeing you again and beleive me she and I would both like to see me back to work Soooon! Great show even with a couple of out of place booths, worth the price of admission.

Good, show, I had my hands full with my little traveling show...Those HAB TAT lures sure were nice :heybaby:

Good to see DonM, Mako Mike, missed Afterhours, Sokey and Saltheart, Kadir the boys love their hats THANKS ...

WOW!

Consensus amongst the people I was talking to was that it is probably one of the best shows ever put on. At least in the Northeast.

Attendance was pretty darn good Saturday afternoon ... I bumped into a bunch of folks - Victor, Nils, Don M, Kadir, Surfpirate, Fish_Eye, Flaptail, Tattoo, Habs, Fishpart & sons, and a few others.

Don Michaud, Nils, Kadir, DZ, #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&, Mako Mike, and Corey of Saltwater Edge looked pretty darn busy manning their booths. Frantic at times it seems, particularly after the noon rush. I'm wondering if these guys will ever admit to being "showed out" by now!

Habs & Tattoo - gotta hand it to you, those two ladies were a hit! :heybaby:

I'm sure the rainy weather really helped attendance. :sick:

Good show. Lots of good vendors with stuff to sell. Ample parking, and very convenient access to the shopping mall for the attached significant others who did not want to be stuck browing fishing stuff for hours on end. Lots of diversions for after the show.

Was rather intrigued to see a LOT of new custom wooden plugs whose makers I have not yet heard of. All I can say is, wow.

-WW

My girl and I got there for opening and left at 12:30 when I couldn't take my hunger anymore and plus the fact that I spent all my cash and really didn't want to increase my credit card debt any higher than it already is.

Walked out with half dozen plugs and a #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& Tshirt after showing a rather lame secret S-B.Com handshake.Thanks for the shirt Salty. :D Also left with more literature than I could carry.

Met a some of you all for the first time.Ran into a few I've met before.

All in all a damn fine show.

I got there around 10:30 and saw tons of habs lures at a booth that no one was at. You may have seen me as I was the tall guy with the kid on my shoulders and the guy who was giving his son a time out :af:.

The amount of people at the show was CRAZY!! If you stopped for a moment you caused a traffic jam. I agree with folks here that it was a great show i will admit that this show was better than the Mass bass show only because the number of booths.

I could not believe the number of dealers selling Tica and Tsunami rods and reels. My buddy was lookng for a meat dunking rod but by the time we started looking for a rod the kids had meltdowns...we had a great time with the kids but it was just too much for them.

Well I just got home now. I spent more on :gu: than I did on fishing supplies. Great time seeing everyone. Gloucester2 I see you every where. JBuck and PTJudeJoe keep up the great work. Tony well........., Chris tough job you had today. Don(afterhours) those lanyards worked well. I saw Scott and JohnR having a meeting of the minds. Scott thanks. TT good seeing you. Mako Mike was busy.
I did not see any girls at the Hab-a-Tat booth. But I think I saw them walking around. :bshake:

You just had to look for Habs Jr. He and Nick were followdrooling the Hab-A-Tat girls around like they had a bone tied to their tails :bshake:


Nice show, well done, nout much for the gutter helmet stuff either but some of the non fishing vendors were probably club members as well... Liked that Silverhawk 24.
Didn't buy ANYTHING, was great :hihi:

Fishweewee hit it on the head. I was surprised too at the new custom plug builders with booths that no one has heard of. Funny how the custom plug price point starts at $20. I think Im getting a booth next year

365 days till next years show give or take
turn 20 plugs a day
$20 a pop at the show

$146,000 before expenses.

I may just quit my day job.

[QUOTE=Striperhound]Funny how the custom plug price point starts at $20. I think Im getting a booth next year ...

WOW, $20.00 each, Must have missed a few booths. I saw custom wood starting at $7.00 :rollem: must just be looking in wrong places.

Armand

On a side note, I have to say Providence looked GREAT.

Last time I got a chance to stroll around the town was back in the mid-80's when I was looking at colleges. The place as I remember it was a run-down pit, at least compared to Boston.

I am amazed at how much the town has changed over 20 years - on the surface. Lots more to do there today besides crashing Brown parties.