Mississauga Boat and Sportsman Show

[Jeremy Ray Green]

Hey Captain I bet you met Mary from Bass magnet they also Make the waterwolf lures.


Very nice people.


Unfortunately the Problem with these shows is that there are too many too close together.

This weekend at the I.C. is the canadian outdoors adventure show. and in ottawa is another sportsmanshow and boat show.

the auto show has been running in toronto so that also takes interest away from the public to attend these shows, how may shows can a person really goto.

It was mentioned spring fishing and boat show in niagara 2nd week of march, I think there is a show in hamilton next week also.

it has to get hard on all of these vendors that are traveling from all over to attend these shows,only to get very little interest from the public to even look at the front doors of these shows.
I know for a fact 3 years ago the toronto sportsmanshow had about 5 times the amount of vendors/exhibits and attendees from the public.

It was my first year at the spring show, but if these numbers continue these shows will die out like the dinosaur.

there is one thing to be said about seeing a product online/youtube or other venue, you can see for yourself before you buy the product if you will like it or not.

But is something more when you actually meet the people that made the lures and perfected these lures overtime.

Yeah there are seminars from professional fishermen, some of them more informative than others.

There are just too many shows at the same time of year, I mean we are in february and they are selling summer sports, and each show is competing for the same sponsors and vendors/ exhibitors.

When In the back of my mind all im thinking about is going ice fishing and using the new lowrance finder I just recently purchased.


These shows can be helpful but again the public needs better education about what these shows can offer, or just better advertisement, I know for a fact if i was a vendor at either of these shows i would second guess myself about going back next year.



~Jeremy