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just got back from the Ice show

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BK19 Proficient

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I ended up winning a pair of wild tickets from meeting nordy in the hockey lodge while waiting for the ice show to open 2 104 dollar lower level tickets me and my boy enjoyed our first wild game very good game

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Strikemaster had great deals on a bunch of their stuff.

I found that Marine General had some of the better pricing on items at the show.

Some items in short supply for the season:

- TB ice rods may be in short supply for a while, they are having trouble getting sufficient rod blank supply from their US supplier.

- Vexilar has shipped out all their supply of flasher units for the season, so what ever is in the stores is all that is available for the season. They are having one of their best years for sales (even with a 40% increase in supply over last year, they are still sold out of their systems for this season already).

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Came home with the frabill predator, an fl-12 and an 8" strikemaster magnum. Took the nephew with and we picked out a bunch of jigs that he liked and a couple rod combos. I don't know if I should be proud or ashamed that we spent more on mini donuts than we did on jigs? I think I just ran my ice fishing budget dry for the next few years, but scored a pretty good deal at reeds (I suppose that have little problem with doing that when your receipt hits the quad digits).

Now, where is my ice??

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This was my first year going and it was pretty much what I expected. Learned some things for next time. Next year I'm taking Friday off from work and going. Even though I got there at the opening, it got crowded fast. Also will buy tickets ahead of time if possible. I waited in the ticket line for about 20 minutes.

I bought my Jason Mitchell walleye rod for a decent price, but next time I will canvas the whole place before buying. Found some JM combos for only $5 more than I paid for just the rod. Otherwise I just bought some small stuff and watched 2 of Tackle Terry Tuma's seminars. Wish I had the $160 for the SM suits. They had lots of extended sizes to try on (I am a large mammal).

Had a fun time and now have more things on my wish list.

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i splurged and bought my first ever sonar graph. i decided to forgo the traditional marcum or vexilar and i went with the humminbird 35 and i couldnt be more happy. absolutely LOVE this unit... dont ever have to worry about interference when fishing with buddies cuz everyone else had a marcum or a vex

got it for 250 too. pretty happy about that

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Originally Posted By: Johnsonator
Who had the strikemaster hardware suit for $160?

Strikemasters booth

strikemaster rep there told me that they will also be having a online special for the hardware suits for $175.00(only $15.00 more then the show price and still better then the $140.00 for each piece of the suit in there catalog. just check out there web site.

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I saw at the frabill booth they had some really neat LED lights inside there flip overs. The one im talking about had four sets of lights on a bar. I thought they might have them but they don't. Anyone else see these and does anyone know where a guy can find them?

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Bought new blades for my SM Laser mag Xpress for $25 at the strikemaster booth. $2 bait pucks there, too! Bought 1 (going back for another one 'cause I'm an [PoorWordUsage]) quick change auger bit coupler. I bought an Ice Gator and will use 1 auger for both power heads. Half off retail at $20 ea. Grabbed a St. Croix premier for $16.50. My buddies daughter got several free jigs, and a free rod combo! What?! I need to find a kid to bring next time! Ha!

Otherwise, I was pretty disapointed by the "deals." Didn't seem like there were many this year. I agree with what others have said, some prices were higher than in-store. What gives?

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I thought the deals were pretty good. Saw the Abu Garcia 300U at 2 for $50. Good prices on Tica's too. Got a St Croix Legend for $40, a Stone Legacy 8 rod bag for $40. A 50th Anniv. FL-20 for $525 had me thinking, even though I got my FL-12 last year there. If I had more time and a real need, I'm sure there would have been good finds. It goes to show that you got to spend money to save money.

Mostly had fun getting educated on what is out there.

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