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Location: Rhinelander. | This next winter what NEW FACES would you like to see doing seminars at the shows. No offense to the guys doing them as they have done a good job in past. Its just I would like to see someone new doing them once in awhile with a new or different take on things. I think we all have seen some of these guys more then enough.. Maybe I'm wrong but its kept me away from the shows the last sveral years. I did want to see the rockford show as they had some people I've not seen. Just so happend I was sick that weekend.
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I'd like to see someone talk on greenbay.
Also like to see someone talk about strgeon bay area as I feel thats a well kept
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| I would like to see more guys talking about river fishing! Red Childress from allegheny guide service here in Pa. is a very good choice. This guy has river water flowin through his veins! "Great Guy"
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Location: Omaha, Nebraska | LOL, powerselling on ebay made easy. Man I would love to come talk on this, except with a feedback score of 101, it's all positive though , I am a relatively inexperienced ebay user. Also there are many books/programs you can purchase on this very topic.
Back to the real topic... um I would like to see seminars on NE musky fishing and how to catch a 50"er from NE waters. |
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Location: Eden Prairie & Pine Island | How about speakers on boat rigging or use of electronics/gps, hooking up equipment, different effects from prop sizes/pitch, etc. We all have some idea what we're doing here, but from some pro's in these areas we could probably get useful tips and/or shortcuts. |
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| I guess it's not "new faces" I'd be looking for, but rather "old faces".
I'd like to see a panel discussion by the more "seasoned" anglers and guides. Some of the younger guys act like they invented muskie fishing. I understand they have guide services and products to promote, and that's fine. But I want to see the guys who don't need to prove anything, don't need to promote anything, and don't need to make a name for themselves. There are guys out there who were muskie fishing back in the 70's and before that, who silently catch a lot of fish because they've spent more years on the water trying to figure out these fish than most of the "professionals" have spent on this Earth. THOSE are the guys I want to listen to. Those are the guys with real wisdom to share. Not that the young guys don't know what they are doing, they certainly do. But they just don't have the years. There's a big difference between "150 days on the water every year for the last 5 years", and "30 years on the water"...
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| Nice to see Doug Johnson on the roster at this years Tri-Esox. He fits your bill when it comes to a guy who has nothing to prove, years of experience, and not beholding to a company to promote products. |
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| I'd personally like to see at one of the muskie shows just a seminar on big fish. What I mean by that is having kind of a round table with some of the long time muskie fisherman talking about big fish they have seen, hooked, or caught. I just think it'd be neat to hear some of the stories they have. |
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Location: Illinois | Scott Kieper of Hayward Wisconsin, Nate Andrychuk of Thunder Bay Canada, Nick Cammarata of Northern Illinois-Southern Wisconsin, Brian Jones of Cass Lake, Minnesota, Spencer Berman (Ohio, I think, works the Musky Innovations booth)
Some if not all might have spoken or do speak from time to time, so please don't take any offense for being lumped into the "NEW FACES" category. These are just names of some musky fisherman that I admire and would like to hear speak but haven't had the pleasure or opportunity to do so!
The one guy I'm really sick of though is (moderator edit) That guy is so full of himself! Just kidding, I love anybody who speaks about musky, and most of the regulars keep their seminars fresh and updated. |
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| I'm sure that there are plenty of good speakers that we never heard of but that's the problem - we never heard of them. Putting on these shows is not cheap and you must admit that the big names draw more people which means more tickets bought. I've seen it on a store level when a very good, but not well known, speaker comes to give his talk. The seminar is great but there is hardly anybody in the room. |
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Location: oswego, il | I really want to get Doug Johnson to seak at our club the night before the chicago show but he is about as commital as a spring cold front musky! I know it's because he isn't sure of his plans but man, we want him to speak! As speaker director, that will be my trophy, I will get a replica made of Doug Johnson!
I would love to get a lowrance speaker. I have tried and failed. The pro-staffer in my area belongs to a walleye club which meets on the same night and he's already cancelled on me once and that was after he declined to do it and I went above his head and put him on the spot. I need to find a willing lowrance guy.
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| Todd, I wonder if Doc Sampson would do a seminar for you guys. |
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Fresh face at the sport shows. Jeff Wallace fits that bill. Jeff fishes NE Wisconsin lakes and also is a instructor at Andy Meyers. Jeff does an great job.
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Location: oswego, il | Shep, I do not know if it was the same guy but about 8 years ago I seen a lowrance seminar done at the green bay show and it was exactly the kind of seminar i would like to find for our club. Might even be the guy you are refferring to. |
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Location: Land of the Musky | I think some of this underwater vidoe stuff is real cool. I coudl sit through 90 minutes of underwater video and how to set it up and learn a lot about musky fishing. |
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Location: MPLS, MN | It would be interesting to have some East Coast Trollers speak, like Capt Larry or Richard Collin. |
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| Just thinking about Reelman's answer. He's right on. Ya gotta put people in the seats. In all honesty it seems like a few "newer" faces have been speaking at shows the last couple years. Didn't Dennis Radloff "break out" the last year or two at the bigger shows? How about the ladies? Patricia Strutz and Linda Rice have both presented at the Chicago show. Tom Dietz spoke at the Ohio Show which I understand was very well attended. Come to think of it, seems like every year there are at least a handful of speakers who get a shot at the podium. If I were a promoter I would sure want to have Bucher, Saric, Maina, etc. to anchor down my speakers list. These guys get the job every year for a reason. While having an east coast troller or maybe a Colorado tiger fisherman would be interesting I doubt that he/she would get much attention in Chicago or Milwaukee. It just doesn't relate to enough of the public attending the show. |
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Location: oswego, il | What Pete says is true. We hold our january meeting on the night before the chicago musky show. The difference between having a "household name" speaker and a "pretty well known" speaker can be more than 50 seats at our meeting even though both presentations are top notch, the household name will always draw the crowd. |
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| I am in total agreement with the comment regarding the older generation. Tom Gelb's speech was amazing and there is no doubt years of experience are worth a ton. I had set up a lot of seminars when I was a Fishing Manager with Gander. I had some great ones: Joe Bucher, Dennis Lappen, Paul Klein, Gregg Thomas, Phil Schweik and others. Of all of the seminars that I had, the "panel" of the Badfish Boys and our Hooksetters panel (sorry, not meant as a plug) was the most entertaining and a format that was very well received.
Sure, I can sit up and preach what I know to a group and possibly offer some good info, but I only have so many jokes, but when you have a group discussing their differences and approaches on one subject, you really get a whole feeling/view on the subject. |
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