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
The Daily Flash Minnow