From The MSBA Expo committee and the MSBA membership

[mikeg]

We took the feedback from the Gillette show, poor lighting, low overheads, broken up display areas, and, of course, the food prices, and went looking for a new venue. Our priority, as it has always been in every one of our fifty plus Expo's, was to put on the best show possible and keep the tradition of fishing and nothing but fishing alive.

We heard that space was available at Stonehill College, visited it, and it just felt right.

We knew, especially after the problems with Gillete, there were some doubts out there about our making a comeback so we put together a package with a few built in deals.

We did our mailings, we did our calls and we did our operations planning. Then, on Friday Feb. 29th, we held our breath. We sweated throught a slow snowy Saturday. Finally at 9 AM Sunday it all came together just as we had envisioned it. The, to my probably prejudiced eye, t best show of it's kind in the Northeast was on!

We offer our thanks to the vendors who took a chance, to our guests who bought their tickets, to On the Water with their innovative interactive tables, to our sponsors, and to Striped-Bass.com for not only their sponsorship but also their outstanding seminar schedule.

As committee chair I offer a special thanks to both the committee and the volunteers who worked the show. Without their hard work the F. M. couldn't have happened.

Mike G.
MSBA Expo 08 Chairman

Note - I am rather new to and unfamiliar with the online fisihing community so so please do not construe my only posting this here at this time as a slight against any other online forum. I wll try to correct that soonest.