Just Returned from the RISSA Show - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

BigFish · 04-01-2005, 04:16 PM

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

Striperhound · 04-01-2005, 04:31 PM

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

Saltheart · 04-01-2005, 04:33 PM

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.

kippy · 04-01-2005, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Saltheart

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.

Nebe · 04-01-2005, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Saltheart

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 booth for Verizon DSL

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

TheRattBoy · 04-01-2005, 05:54 PM

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

...Hey, we even got to talk with the Govenor, whoever he was

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Got some Bugger wood and J.P. got a free t-shirt, with the secret handshake

It was a GREAT show, you can tell a lot of work goes into it, all you RISSA guys should be proud

Yeah, I saw the gutters too, big deal

Now bring on the fish

johnny

Peter Lajoie · 04-01-2005, 06:13 PM

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

Navy Chief · 04-01-2005, 06:53 PM

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

Spent no money at the Gutter Helmet booth.

Missed the bar though, very sad.

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).

Slipknot · 04-01-2005, 07:57 PM

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

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