Quote Originally Posted by Alboy79 View Post
Anyone go to the Ultimate Fishing Show in Novi this weekend? Thinking of driving down in the morning for something to do.
Not really worth the trip. The claimed "largest fishing show in the Midwest". I wanna know how they got that claim. I didn't find there to be as many vendors as GR, and I didn't think the hall was that big. They had a lot of boats on show, but not many interesting vendors.
I don't know that I'd go again. If it wasn't Bass, Salmon, or Walleye, it wasn't there.

I can't even tell you how many time someone said "Sir, you look like a bass fisherman. Come check out this gadget I sell"
Now im 5'11" and weigh in around 275. I was wearing cowboy boots and Wrangler jeans... Is that what a bass fisherman looks like?
When they asked "are you a bass fisherman", and I answerd "no", they looked like they didn't believe me. Or like I was putting them on. Like "someone at this show doesn't fish for bass?"
I don't purposely fish for bass(not that I don't have fun when I catch one, I just don't seek them out regularly), and I don't do much Salmon fishing(although this year I did try a few times). That left me with Walleye, and every booth for Walleye at the show, was basically the same stuff as the booth for walleye before.

It did beat sitting around the house daydreaming.

I did listen to one speaker talk about jigging the Detroit river for Walleye. That was a bit informative, not so much teaching me something new, but rather cementing theory's I already had.

The highlight of the trip was, by far, the Elk Jalapeņo and Cheddar Jerky sticks, and the ice cold Coors Light.
We also got coupons to Famous Daves BBQ, which is always good.