Pro angler, Skeet Reese introduces the newly released lure, the Smasher 125.

This week, I’m going to divide my report into 2 parts and talk about the world greatest fishing show, the 2011 ICAST Show held in Las Vegas. We loaded up our Lucky Craft booth in the truck and headed out on a 4 and a half hour drive to Vegas! Immediately after we arrived, we started on our preparation and construction of the booth!! I’m excited to see how great our booth will turn out to be this year! The booth looked like the following picture in the beginning.

The Lucky Craft booth construction was finally completed!! What do you think!? Isn’t it great!? This year’s new products are: for Bass, the Smasher 125, Fat Smasher, LC Crank, and 5 new colors also. And for Saltwater, the FM 120DD and PT 100DD. To help introduce these new products, some of our pro anglers had gathered here with us. I was able to introduce our new products to each vendor pretty well and I have a feeling the Saltwater lure sales will be highly listed. Especially to the Southern America vendors, the Flash Minnow & Pointer Series were pretty popular. Supposedly in Southern America, these products are still pretty unfamiliar and they were showing a lot of interest in them. I showed them some pictures of the fishes I caught for my blog reports and explained to them some features of the FM & PT. I think I captured the vendor’s interest!!

I went around looking at other company booths for future reference and for new ideas. It was impossible to look at all the booths there in one day!! I was excited for the announcement of tonight’s awards for each division (Hard lure division, soft lure, rod, real, and etc.). From Lucky Craft, developed by Skeet Reese, the Fat Smasher is nominated in the hard lure division. I’m really excited for the opening night ceremony.

On my next report, I want to talk about the 2011 ICAST Show #1 product presentation ceremony as well as how the 2nd day went. Please stay tuned!

Sandy

Well, we’re back at home after a week of houseboat camping at one of the nicest places I could ever even think about taking my family for a getaway. We went to Bullard’s Bar Reservoir, about an hour away from home and rented a houseboat and went camping with our family and friends.
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Today I went to “The Ultimate Outdoor Experience” held at the Long Beach Convention Center. It is an event where they have fishing and hunting products, advertisements for fishing trip packages and accommodations, boat displays, training sessions and performances, and a whole lot of other outdoor related activity booths and displays. It is a very festive event with a lot of people. During the weekday it starts from 2pm, so I decided to explore new areas and stop by Long Beach harbor to throw my Flash Minnow for a little while. But as I thought, it was still too early for Okappari (shore fishing).

So I ended my fishing a little before 2pm and headed to the location of the event. 30 minutes before the venue opened, the line was already very long!! But I thought I was still pretty lucky to be able to come during the weekday because on the weekend, this line would most likely be 5 times worse!
I finally entered the venue after lining up for awhile and I was stunned by the amount of people and booths! The venue was very big and it would probably take me a couple hours to look at every single one of them!! It is a pretty big event.

In this event, tackle shops have special prices on their products and they can be purchased for a very good price. It is a good chance for all fishermen who came!! Also, there are workers from several booths passing out samples! Such fabulous fan services.

On this day I was able to meet our Lucky Craft regional pro angler, Gerry. I got to plan on going fishing with him this summer for this Daily flash Minnow report. (At this time as a pro staff, Garry was at the DAIWA booth) Please stay tuned for this summer’s Daily Flash Minnow report!
The Long Beach Exhibition ended, but on March 24th~27th, there will be another event going on in San Diego, CA – Del Mar Fairgrounds. So for the people who couldn’t make it to the Long Beach event, please try to make it to the San Diego event. For more information please visit the link below:
http://fredhall.com/index.php

See you soon!
P.S. I also ran into Matt from Optimum Baits and Mr. Hill from my fishing trip at Vail Lake (http://www.luckycraftlure.com/fm/?p=287).

Sandy
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Wow~, the Lucky Craft booth at the Osaka fishing show was extremely hyped up and fun.

A lot of people stopped by our booth for every pro staff, field testers’ training presentations. The audiences were very into the presentation and from that, the staff started to give a much more impassioned speech and ended up going over their time limits (LOL).

The most questioned subject to me was the know-how prop tuning of the Tone Splash. And I am guessing the reason for that is because I was not able to attend to last year’s Osaka fishing show, so we weren’t able to have a Tone Splash training session. There was never a chance to explain it in details and there were probably a lot of unanswered questions for the Tone Splash users in the Osaka region.

This year I was able to answer many questions about it, and there was even someone who asked me to tune up their very own Tone Splash! (LOL)

So I thought!!
As long as I have the time at the Yokahama fishing show, if you bring the Tone Splash you use and want some tuning job on it, please bring it over to me and I will happily use my very best tuning job that is used even in tournaments! So please don’t hesitate to bring your Tone Splash to me!

It will be limited, but I will also bring some props, feather hooks, and other parts so please take advantage of this FREE lure examination!!

I will be waiting at the Yokohama fishing show venue~!!

This is the Daily Flash Minnow Weekly Report! This is a continuation of a previous blog and a special report about the Osaka Fishing Show!!
This year’s theme is the Lucky Craft Spirit!!

I’ve uploaded some images of the Lucky Craft booth so please take a look at the link below:
https://picasaweb.google.com

For the people who wasn’t able to make it to the Osaka Fishing Show! Don’t worry!! There will be another event going on in Yokohama. So please visit us at our Lucky Craft booth there!
And just between you and me! Something might happen at the Yokohama Fishing Show!! That person might be there!!

2011 Yokohama Fishing Show Information:
Please visit the link below for direction.
http://www.fishing-show.com/access/index.html

See you soon!

Sandy

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This is the Daily Flash Minnow Weekly Report! And this time will be a special report on the Osaka Fishing Show held in Japan. This is a very big convention open to the public and I will like to share a little bit about it! This year’s Lucky Craft booth theme is… the Lucky Sprit!! All the Lucky Craft staff would like to thank all the fishermen all across the world from our very soul, and would want this year’s fishing show to be an amazing experience for everyone. Our booth this year was split enormously into 3 parts! We had displays of 2011 new lures which were very appealing! The floor even had a theme of orange in such a Lucky Craft style, and was in orange color with orange fragrance also! The Lucky Craft booth was like a fancy bakery.  Every year there are more women anglers, so we decided to have a very “cute” look this year.

What is going to happen with the extremely large water tank this year…!?  What new products are going to be announced this year!? Are they going to publicly demonstrate these lures? I am too excited! My expectations this year again is… HUGE!! (Mr. Mitsuo & SHINGO will be there too!)

(I will like to talk a little bit about my upcoming report) There is a section of the booth where we introduce the manufacturing process and displays of lures produced year by year. I can imagine so many of our Lucky Craft fans talking and learning more about our products!

For more information on the venue and location please go to the link below:

http://www.fishing.or.jp/english/index.html (English)
http://www.fishing.or.jp/guide/access_map.html (Japanese)

See you again soon!

Sandy’s murmur: Since I’m not there at the Fishing Show, even when they were right in the middle of the event, I immediately called Nishiguchi-kun to see what is going on!

Through the phone, it sounded very lively. I have to go next year!!

Sandy

My very first fish caught this year was a Herabuna (hahaha). I’ve gone to a near channel to test out some of our new products and a prototype lures. I’ve tested a lot of them out and this year’s new Lucky Craft lures are going to be very interesting!
I will also be going to the Fishing Show held in Osaka, Japan this weekend! I am looking forward on talking to the Lucky Craft fans in the Kansai region!
Again this year, we will perform some training sessions. My partner, Mr. Tabuchi who has been active in the JP Top 50, is actually not quite a good public speaker (?)… So I may have to properly lead him and hope that it will bring out his inner strength…?