It’s Super Bowl Sunday and the home town Colts will represent the city of Indianapolis and the state of Indiana in the NFL’s biggest game.
All I gott say is? Go Blue…..
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Well, it’s here. The fifth annual Indiana Fishing Expo is this weekend @ the johnson County Fairgrounds in Franklin Indiana. 250 Fairgrounds st. Franklin, In. 46131. This years show promises to be as good as any we have ever had. The economy took it’s toll on a few vendors from shows past, but, we have replaced them with equally quality vendors. As 2011 brings new hope for the vendors coupled with the new vendors and 2011 show is allready shaping up to be dandy. We will be changing web site layouts this year as the other can no longer be updated. We will go with a format similar to this one so we can have vendor inneraction. I hope to see everyone there again this year as you stock up for the 2010 fishing season and catch some great guest speakers. Remember to bring the kid’s. Go Fish Indiana is bringing their full display that is loaded with kid inneraction programs, and it’s all free once inside. Adults: $3.00 Children 16 & Under: FREE www.indianafishingexpo.com
Any avid smallie angler is certainly intimately familiar with the fluke. This bait is absolutely deadly on bass during multiple seasonal periods. I personally love to fish a fluke weightless when bass are actively chasing bait. They will absolutely smoke a fluke sometimes throwing the bait high in the air with the attack. This year Zoom has released a new take on the tried and true soft plastic jerk bait, the Swimming Super Fluke. They have added a sassy-shad type tail in lieu of the standard split tail. I cannot wait to try these out, I really want to see what that tail does when fished weightless with an erratic jerk style retrieve. Here is a short video clip of this beast alive. What a freaking piglet to say the least.
As most industries, the boating business has been hit really hard by the poor economy. In this, Genmar Holdings (Ranger, Stratos, Champion and other brands) had filed bankruptcy due to poor long term sales. Below is a press release with details of the bankruptcy auction and purchase. Genmar auctioned off for $70M A Beverly Hills, Calif.-based private equity firm was the big winner Friday in the auction of Genmar Holdings, one of the nation’s largest boat companies, formerly led by Irwin Jacobs. Platinum Equity LLC paid $70 million for the bulk of Genmar’s holdings in the auction, which stemmed from Genmar’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing last summer. Jacobs, the Twin Cities financier who resigned from Genmar last year after the Chapter 11 filing, did buy back a piece of the company Friday. A company called JD Acquisitions — which includes Jacobs and a partner — acquired the Carver and Marquis brands for $6 million. Those brands include the yacht group of Genmar. A third bidder, MCBC Hydra, acquired Genmar’s Hydra-Sport brand for $1 million. The results of the two-day auction are subject to court approval. A hearing is scheduled for next week. Platinum has made about 100 acquisitions since 1995, and its diverse group of companies represent more than $27 billion in annual revenue. Last year, Platinum bought San Diego’s metropolitan daily newspaper, the Union-Tribune. At the time of its bankruptcy filing, Genmar had about 1,500 employees and 1,100 dealerships. The company was started by Jacobs, who got into the boat business in 1978 when he purchased Lund Boat Co. Genmar products range from runabouts to yachts, with brands that include Ranger and Larson, Wellcraft, Four Winns and Glastron. The nation’s recession has punished the boating industry. Revenue estimates for Genmar totaled $460 million for the 12 months ended in June, down from about $1 billion in calendar year 2007. The resolution of Genmar’s bankruptcy can’t come soon enough for retailers who sell Genmar brands, said Phil Keeter, president of the Marine Retailers Association of America. All boat retailers are dealing with a slow economy and tight credit markets, Keeter said. “Those that are Genmar dealers also don’t know what they’re going to do about product,” he said. The boat show season is starting now, and some dealers have no 2010 Genmar brand models, Keeter said. Dealers of competing boat brands probably will use the bankruptcy to make customers leery of buying a Genmar brand, he said. “It’s a huge mess,” Keeter said. “A lot of dealers could be bankrupt over the situation.” In November, Platinum made an opening bid of $55 million for Genmar. Considered a “stalking horse” bid, that action set a floor for other bidders. Attorneys representing the various bidders started the auction Thursday morning and went until late that night, and then ran another five hours Friday. There were two bidders for the core assets and four for the remaining assets, Sheffert said. As the auction progressed, some of the bidders might have decided to alter their initial bids, leading to more negotiations. “There was no legal hang-up; it was just the process,” Sheffert said. John Welbes can be reached at 651-228-2175. After a little over 77 years a new world recod largemouth has been certified.
http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/tournaments/live/kyte The new upgrade to the message boards are complete. Make sure you click on the IS-Forum tab to the right and or click Here to check them out. I posted this awhile back on the boards however I wanted to bring it to the front page. We all, me included take boat safety for granted at times. I have been guilty in the past of either not wearing my life jacket or using my kill switch. Neglecting to do either of these things can turn deadly in a split second. After many hours behind the wheel of my boat, I have had instances where it was evident that a boat can get away from you in a split second given the right, or wrong circumstances. This video is sobering evidence of this. Luckily this guy was not killed however it illustrates in video how things can go really wrong really quick.
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