REMOTE COVERAGE - FS FISHING EXPO

FISHING EXPO - Somebody at Florida Sportsman had a great idea - Lets throw a Fishing Expo on Super Bowl Sunday. You know, World Dude Day. The day that guys only get up off the couch for 3 things, and one of them ain't going to a fishing show. But we are hardcore so we went anyway. It was at Fort Lauderdale's War Memorial Auditorium located in Holiday Park, very close to the Lunkerdog Headquarters. We got there a little after noon and it was sad. It was sad that they were charging to park, and even sadder that they were still charging an admission fee, when there was nobody there. Even sadder is the state of brick and mortar publishing that needs to have events like this. I need to pay the vendors so they can pitch their products at me? I dont think so. This aint the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. This thing was held in a dusty wrestling hall.

Enough of the bitching, we did see some familiar faces. We ran into Dave McKenzie of FISHNORTHBAY.COM, and he introduced us to the boys at the FINS booth. We checked out a few minutes of the shallow water seminar by some dude that was claiming people lose fingers to snook. Moving right along... Next up, outside on the mulch was another dude wearing a Janet Jackson microphone and talking about must have items for the boat. Stuff like Windex wipes for you glasses. Then came the Kingfish seminar (see photo).

We had a good time, but we probably should have went fishing before the Super Bowl. The boatramps were empty, and all the Spot Stealers were home listening to Jaworski talk about progressions.