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Location: On my favorite lake! | I could not attend this year show and Was curious how the Chicago show was and how it compared to the last few shows. What were the have to have equipment and lures? There looked to be some intererting stuff on the muskiefirst show videos. |
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| Rumor has it this was the last year at Sears center it will move to someplace called pheasant run?????
First day s for the hard cores true glide and fat bastard s sold out in half hour for one and 3 hours for the other.
Vendors I talked to seemed to think the show crowd was down,,very sloppy weather on Fri night and Saturday May have kept people home. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | http://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/articles/01.08.2016/9399/Muskie.Exp... |
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| I enjoyed it a great deal, lots of things to see and do, great folks to chat with.
I didn't get any of the lures I wanted (off to the internet I go..) but I managed to pick up new muskie rods (Thanks James!), Order a replica for my son's first fish, play with a Toro S/Beast and generally pester Canadian Lodge owners. Great way to spend a Saturday.
I'll definately be there for 2017's expo.
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Location: oswego, il | Pheasant Run is a nice place. The megacenter is where they hold the all Canada show, big open floor. If there are some weddings going on the rest of the venue Saturday night could be fun. Huge parking area too. Food, there is a culvers across the street. Down the road a 1/4 mile is a portillos, sushi, tgi Fridays, tai food and a host of other stuff. Doentown st Charles has a nice bar scene 5 minutes away. It is about 25 minutes straight south of the sears center down 59 to north avenue. There is a hotel there and across the street. No need for out of town people to even drive.
Edited by ToddM 1/12/2016 10:39 AM
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Location: Elk Grove Village, IL & Phillips, WI | Great show! Pheasant Run will be even better. It is a real convention center, no more dark halls! Although a longer drive to an off the main drag type place, it will be worth it. |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Let's see what you all got!
Edited by muskyroller 1/12/2016 10:39 AM
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| Seemed to be less vendors and less people than last year. Couple booths had some really tough locations and were blocked from most traffic patterns.
Lake X sold out of fat bastards in 3 hours on Friday, but Thorne still had a few on Saturday. Lake X guys pointed me that way and I was able to grab one. Vendors seemed willing to deal so that was nice.
Good time and a nice way to use up a Saturday. Weather that afternoon cut my time a little short so I wasn't able to check out any seminars. |
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| I went on Saturday and thought the show was great. Got three Lake X Northern Lights Dr. Evils. As noted the Fat Bastards all gone on Friday. (By the way, you can Pre-Order the Northern Lights from Rollie & Helen's online. They do not have any in stock yet.)
I agree Pheasant Run will be a much more vendor and visitor friendly location. As Todd noted the All Canada Show has been a regular there for a number of years.
And, cheaper beer... well hooray for that!
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| 2017 Expo by St. Charles, IL?
Would/Should the Swap location change as well? What are early opinions on that? |
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| First time going to the show. I was impressed with most of the seminars and workshops I attended. I regret missing a couple of interest. I regret not taking some notes. Lots of things to try to remember.
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Location: oswego, il | As far as the swap goes, probably should change, pheasant run is about 35 minutes from officials time out. Pheasant run itself has quite a few banquet rooms, as stated earlier a popular place to have a wedding reception. I would be willing to bet the major chain motel across the street has a banquet room or two as well. |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Let's hold off on deciding publicly what we (as in me) are going to do with the swap. It will depend on many factors, one being cost. Though Poplar Bowl is 35 minutes away, if I have to charge people to enter because of having to pay for a room, that's probably not going to work, and we might end up back at the place that gives us the room for free. Being that AGAIN a number of guys could not handle the cost of beer at the venue and had to bring their own, I fear that charging will drive away people who cannot otherwise afford to attend because of a $3 or $5 cover charge. |
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Location: oswego, il | Yeah because we can't justify paying a 3-5 dollar entry fee when we can use that three to five dollars to buy a musky lure.that cost 25 new. The ones who think 3-5 is too much are the ones who need to be told what spots to fish. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | ToddM - 1/13/2016 10:23 AM
Yeah because we can't justify paying a 3-5 dollar entry fee when we can use that three to five dollars to buy a musky lure.that cost 25 new. The ones who think 3-5 is too much are the ones who need to be told what spots to fish.
that covers about 80% of em ... |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | ToddM - 1/13/2016 10:23 AM
Yeah because we can't justify paying a 3-5 dollar entry fee when we can use that three to five dollars to buy a musky lure.that cost 25 new. The ones who think 3-5 is too much are the ones who need to be told what spots to fish.
Not sure how that relates to being told where to fish....
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Location: oswego, il | Slamr - 1/13/2016 10:34 AM
ToddM - 1/13/2016 10:23 AM
Yeah because we can't justify paying a 3-5 dollar entry fee when we can use that three to five dollars to buy a musky lure.that cost 25 new. The ones who think 3-5 is too much are the ones who need to be told what spots to fish.
Not sure how that relates to being told where to fish....
They can't figure out the swap either. |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Oh, it was a joke. Hard to tell when you are making a joke, as you are rarely actually funny. |
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Location: central Wisconsin | once every 1000 posts he is funny  |
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Location: oswego, il | The line was set, be patient going to be awhile. |
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Location: varies | ToddM - 1/13/2016 12:27 PM
The line was set, be patient going to be awhile.
Now that's funny! . . . Ok, that sucked too. |
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| Maybe somebody can contact the show promoter and when he sets up his agreement for show rates at the local hotel see if he can get a conference/banquet room to use for Sat nite,,they may just throw it in has part of the deal,,,,promoter should be willing the swapl attracts more people to show.. |
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| I did not think it was near as crowded this year as last year, I was there at same time both years.. Some booths were in dark areas so it was hard to see color patterns on some lures.. thought it was a ok show, the seminars were very hard to figure out who was speaking where, I asked 3 different people working at the show all three gave me different answers.. I missed one and came late to the other.. They did not do a good job anouncing them either few others I talked to said same thing. Hope it's better at the new venue next year..
Still had fun on a snowy weekend. Spent too much money but that will happen |
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| I was super bummed out I missed it, but even more bummed out my mother passed on Saturday. Maybe Ill hit Milwaukee but right now my head is not in the game. |
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How was the Chicago show?