RIISA
 

What did ya get? I had to leave before I got myself into trouble. Got to talk with quite a few guys. Some I didn't get to talk to as they were pretty busy. Here's my stash.

What is that phone chord in the bottom right? or is is a rubber eel of somekind?

MAC--Would you identify some of your booty?

These are Ebens new SurfHog eels. I'd open the bag and take a picture but they reek of bunker oil:humpty:

Seabait (bloodworm) BM Cowboy
Habs jtd danny.............BM Cowboy
Habs jtd atom.............Habs jtd Atom
Habs jtd Atom.............Salty Danny
Habs stik....................Salty needle
tattoo 2 oz darter......Surfhogs
tattoo 2 oz darter
tattoo 3 oz darter......surfhog ribbed eels

You sly dog. Nice jointed danny.:uhuh:



Gotta love that wonderbread tattoo darter. I was begging for that in a swimmer.

:skulz: Pleasure sticks :skulz:

mac great seeing you as always. you got a spot on my rock any day.

The show was AWSOME!!! I dropped 300$ on some good loot. I picked up more rubber than I probably need.

I showed up at 11:45 and the line was 250 people or more deep. A friend of mine took a picture with his phone because he was shocked to see so many people.

I thought Tattoo lures had the best looking booth...nice job!

I was able to hook myself up with a free VS hat and then tried to weasel a free Daiwa hat but the sales dude saw me with the VS hat and wanted no part of me. :)

It was a busy day for me, I played hockey at 6:00am then went to breakfast at 9:00 and made it down to RI from Lowell by 11:45. I got home at 7:30 pm.....long day!

GREAT SHOW!! I thought it was the best of the year!

MAC I missed you in the booth dood. Sorry. It was nutto for quite a while today.

I thought I saw a guy near Habs booth that looked like Mac :read:

you have it bad Mac :hs:

that's ok, I couldn't help but spend some money also, but not as much as you and NIB did though.

I also got Charlie to sign my copy of OTW with him on the cover :D Thanks again Charlie :btu: And thank you very much Habs, it is better to hab than to gib

:uhuh: very impressive :btu:

Funny, we were going to take a picture of Mac buying at at the Habs display! Yes he has a problem :tooth:
Thanks to Habs for having Bob Pond at the show it made my day!

The show was great, TON's of lures and rubba, I was in la la land walking around, Big thanks to Mr Slugo, Nice to see ya. ,Pt Jude Brothers ,,,what can I say but thanks, Alan and Jenn,Eben, Charlie Cinto,After hour,Ct SurfCasters, MassBass,RI surfcasters, God the list go's on and on.
And yes Tattoo has a great display,always nice to see Mike:wave:
Also thanks to Chumbucket ,kid your the best!
Anyone buy a boat?
VB

Not a boat, but came very close to a Hobie Revolution Kayak. Nice meeting Mac and some other S-Ber's at the CSA booth today. A fantastic show. Watching Mac and Tobias trade plugs was interesting to say the least, even saw a Gary2 handed over. I got it bad, but Mac, you and Andy are over the top.

:hidin: oh and I got one of these too. And A few tickets towards the Ponds raffle. Andy asked me if I was going back today:err: I think I'll pass. Was a great time though.

:jump:

WE GOT ONE TOO!!

but ours had special markings.....almost like a "tagged" striper.....


Oh....and notice it's already in use! Mikey is saving up for more plugs! We'll be at the show tomorrow.

Thanks again Charlie! :thanks:

Mac like that long atom type there ... be interrested to see that swim .. nice pluggage,, but you can make all that stuff free ya know,, nevermind ,,, I don't know how ya do it .. I'm still broke from Asbury ... with regrets, staying away ... Who got the G2 .. My bet is Andy .

MAC you must have "known someone" (there's a shocker...)to score those cowboys...I missed one by :30...

I did get to hold one for a minute.

Got a Hab's 40 (this is one of the best put together plugs I've ever seen....Superior) , a new Bob Hahn A-40 and $50.00 worth of NJ Tackle hardware for my own work.

i get a buch of pleasure sticks and a cowboy

Got back an hour or so ago.

Got some plugs from Salty,a 1.25oz olive/white popper and a 1oz needle same color.Grabbed a couple Pt.Jude's new sand eel tins.Also picked up a little 2pc 7' Tsunami rod for some early season action that I can always keep in the trunk.

Great seeing Joe and Jeff.Good seeing Don(AH) too.And of course always good to see Salty.Met Canalman at Joe's booth and Bigcat at Salty's and Thomcat from whom I bought the rod from.Also met one other person from the site whose name I just can't recall and for that I apologize.

Got Talley Whacked twice and some gold jewlery from Brothers Jude!

Sounds a little light in the loafers to me... not that there's anything wrong with that....

You must have been there Friday. Only had a sampler of them at that point.

Should have came back today, the man himself came in with the motherload. It required a hand truck...

Call me Tuesday if you want some, we saved a whole bunch for our phone, walk-in, and Internet customers who couldn't make the show.

I had a great time at the show and got some good loot as well, including, some tattoo stuff, and Nebe's new rubba! (uhhhhhh wait a minute) I went with a list and pretty much stuck to it, except I got talked into getting one those x-caps (the ones that have a sunglass leash built in-I couldn't resist).
anyways, great time and Pete, you guys looked like you were mobbed all day on Friday! That case of VS's was almost too much for me to take!

Yeah I missed out on buying a cowboy Friday. I was with some buddies and they wanted to start at the first row, even after I told them of the limited supply of lures, so by the time we got to the SWE row they were all gone. I guess I will have to call on Tuesday to get one.



I was also impressed with some of the colors of the superstrike needles.

my humble little stash from the risaa show today.

RIISA
 

Oh yeah - I blew my allowance for a couple of months. But it was worth it . I figured some of these guys with the High end new booths needed my help. Tatoos,Habs, Afterhours ,Saltys and the new CF crab guys . Any of you guys offering stock options?

Whiplash I will sell you stock in that pigment on Dredey's needlefish :hee:

Dredey wait til you put that thing in the WATER :kewl:

well howdy there pilgrem....not that theres anything wrong with that

I want to thank everyone at Saltwater Edge,especially Peter G for providing hospitality and I must say ever booth I went in felt like home.J.D.from NJ Tackle,good to chat with you.Al Gags always a character.CT Surfcasters ,great bunch of guys.Peter Burford from Burford books ,nice chatting with you as it was with Mike Hogan from Hoggy lures,Steve McKenna and it was a particular pleasure meeting Mr.#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& for the first time.Iron Mike ,Craig Van Staal and Kadir from Aquaskinz in addition to Saltwater Edge crew came made that isle come alive with personality.Herb Reed from Slugg-go had some nice new products as did Point Jude brothers who must of been born on a church holiday, they are that nice of people.John Habs ,always a pleasure.Spent some time with Don from Afterhours lures, he alone is good reason enough to drive 3 hours from New York.It was great to see Scott from #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& with his blue light special,man has a good sense of humor.Infamous NIB.it was great to see you Tony.Mike from Tattoo had as usual the best display of the show.Rich Tenreiro from Noreast Angling,always a pleasure.Two people I was hopping to meet Mr.Laptew and Eben somehow slipped thru the cracks.All in all worth six hours of driving

Some loot. Finally got a couple Hab's footas. :tooth:

Picked a couple after hours plugs, misc... jigs, some sufhogs, and a tatoo jointed eel. Cant believe how well i behaved. Was too close to droppin the loot on a smokin abu, cant believe i resisted the urge. Good seeing the folks from SB.

Some really nice stuff from Aterhours
 

Nice hanging out in that booth too. :kewl: I had it so bad Don was actually talking me out of buying more plugs.:rotf3: I still wish I grabbed that reverse eel skin needle. Those ounce and a half plugs are gonna do well on the north shore.

Finally some more Hab's loot and that was it. Anyone score on of these in black?
 

Time to go into plug buying semi-retirement until next winter. Wish I got a Hab's stick in black

Similar haul, got some good wood and picked up a signed fish-bank for the kid. kewl.

The feeding frenzy on the cowboys is insane. as soon as the box was opened guys were on them like a bluefish feeding frenzy. I got two to fish with. I wonder how many of them found there way to ebay that night. I think it is silly to buy from a local shop guy who is trying to keep his price somewhat reasonable for guys to fish with only to see them flipped on ebay for a quick few bucks. You know the shop guys is pulling some strings to get them. Its like spitting in the guys shop. Show some respect. Buy what you can fish with, don't re-sell store bought stuff you are just hurting everyone. Eventually the shop will say screw it, I don't want the hassle or sell them himself on ebay.

I wanted to buy one of those big bunker spoons the guy from NE anglers was peddling but I could not swallow the 41 bucks per spoon knowing it probably will ge hung up on a rock on the first day.

I didn't see new rubber by eben. I was looking but could not find him.

Jezzz everyone seems to be getting into the rubber act now I think I saw 10 guys selling all kinds of rubbers.

Lots of good stuff...worth the trip.

:rotflmao: Yeah, right......

Mike Luds if you want to sell any of those Wade needles I can help you out :conf:

Need the extra cash for the friggin gas prices.

Sorry Bob....it would take alot.

salty that color needle i've been meaning to get for a while. finally got it and can't wait to use it. very nice.

Wow... Looks like you guys really got some good loot,,,,,, I see a lot of Hab-o-Holics......

Better to Hab than gib.
:D