I was at the show as well! Great show, one of the best of the year! It was nice to see local shops selling product instead of places booking trips to lake ontario and maine (not that there si anything wrong with that!)
My buddy and I got there at 8:30 and there was no one in line. We walked the mall for a while and showed back up at 9:10 and we were like 20th in line. 5 mins later, the line was 3-4 hundred deep....nice to see!
I walked over to M&Ds area as soon as the show started and there were close to 100 people yanking the stuff from the wall...everyone looking for the Habs lures....I got two of them.
It was funny that there was a guy who obviously knew the owners and he got a hidden stash of Habs. I spoke to the guy and he said I knew Mike and it does not hurt to know people....how can I get hooked up like that
I am sorry for not talking to the folks at M&Ds about a rod but I saw the amount of people and I knew you were not going to have time to talk to me about a custom rod.
talked to the folks at CMS and they had a custom 1322 which I bought for under 300$ 15% discount...woo hoo!
one more apology....I am sorry for not stopping to talk to anyone but my buddy did not seem like he wanted to meet people as he does not surf the fishing sites plus his leash was being pulled from home