Erik and I made it to the Long Beach Fred Hall Show, and were there from start to finish, 1pm to 9pm.  It was everything we had hoped for and more.

We fueled up on Mexican food before the show knowing we’d be doing a lot of walking.

The crowd wasn’t as bad as it would be this weekend so we were able to cover the entire show and meet some old friends and make new ones.

The best deals seemed to be on rods and lures. We haven’t bought any rods yet because taking them back on the plane would be challenging, but we did grab a few jigs and accessories at bargain prices.

There were some innovative products like Jigging Master “underhead” reels that are seated under the rod like a spinner but are level wind bait casting or conventional reels.  They are made for dropping and retrieving jigs, not for casting, and combine the best features of spinning and conventional reels.  Some are right hand crank and some are left hand crank.

We weren’t able to try the Hobie pedal boats on the water but hope to tomorrow.

 

 

 

 

 

I think this is how Erik plans to take his rods back to Hawaii.

We’ll do a better job taking show photos tomorrow.  We kind of forgot to do that since we were kind of shell shocked with the enormity of the exhibits.