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2024 Wisconsin Fishing Expo · Ask The Experts

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  Eight fifty thirteen ten WIV. You're twice of storm track forecast increasing clouds of
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  high today of fifty seven. Currently it is thirty four. We've got a
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  couple of clouds here at thirteen ten WIB A big weekend at the exhibition hall
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  at the Alliant Energy Center. Oh, it's back the Wisconsin Fishing Expo.
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  And joining us from the Wisconsin Fishing Expo. A familiar voice, mister Dan
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  Durbin, Dan, how you doing this year? I'm doing great. We
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  meet again. Yes, you know, it's great to die. I always
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  know Spring is just about here when you and I talk, I always look
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  forward to hearing about the event. And every year you guys bring a big,
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  big event, and you always had some new stuff as well. Speak
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  of new stuff? Did I see are you guys expanding your hours on Friday?
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  Did I? Did I see that? Later? Am I remembering wrong?
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  No, you're correct. We are actually opening at one on Friday instead
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  of three. And we more or less had to do that because we just
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  we had a lot of consumers that wanted to, you know, spend an
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  entire day. Yeah, and that kind of helped them get more bargain for
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  their tickets. And actually aftermath is that we're able to pack more seminars in
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  on Friday as well, so it's a win win for everybody. Oh that
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  is great, and we're going to talk about some of those seminars and some
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  of the other great events going on at the Wisconsin Fishing Expo. As mentioned,
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  Kick kicks off tomorrow one o'clock, runs Saturday and Sunday as well.
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  All the details online the website Wi Phishingexpo dot com. That's Wi Phishingexpo dot
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  com. Before we get to the speakers and the seminars, let's kind of
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  just do a quick event overview. You guys literally have something for absolutely everybody,
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  don't you, Dan, Oh yeah, yeah. We're looking at one
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  hundred and ninety thousand square feet of everything that you can do with fishing,
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  with whether you're you know, new to the sport, if your kids just
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  getting introduced with it, to a seasoned veteran. I mean, it's it's
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  fully interactive. We're looking at over three hundred and sixty booth this year,
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  which is an all time record, so there's all kinds of stuff for it,
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  and it doesn't matter what you fish for fits in fresh water, we
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  got it. Oh, that is absolutely fantastic. Again, it is the
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  Wisconsin the Fishing Expo, kicking off tomorrow at the Align Energy Center in the
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  ex Bo hall. You mentioned the kiddos, and I think for a lot
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  of a lot of folks that's kind of Those are important years obviously for a
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  number of reasons, but also the opportunity for kids to learn about about fishing
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  and being responsible and you know, really helping, you know, for themselves
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  and having that skill, and of course the overall enjoyment. And you guys
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  have a bunch of really really cool opportunities for kids to things for them to
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  do, to really make it a great event, to really encourage them and
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  really spark their interest in fishing, don't you. Oh gosh, yeah.
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  I mean I think there's at least seven different kids exhibits, including seminars.
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  We've got you know, fishing basics one O one and then a two to
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  one version for more advanced at that way. At the first one, we
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  give away seventy five rodden real combos, the second one seventy five tackle boxes,
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  and then we got a third one with it with seventy five T shirts
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  and a bunch of stuff like that. So a lot of interactive stuff on
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  you know, taking a class and then they kind of have to graduate with
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  their little forty five minute class to get the goodies. Fish Bengals another popular
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  thing at basically six stops around the ex bow that you know, it goes
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  to various vendors. They get their whole punched, and then at the end
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  they get a little gift bag with some lures and stuff that's probably worth you
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  know, six seven bucks just right there, yeah, I mean, and
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  then just you know, of course we got the trout pond, we got
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  the bumper boats and they don't get wet. Parents don't worry thought, it's
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  completely completely safe. And then you know, just the goofy things like mental
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  races, and we got balloon tying, face painting, and a lot of
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  this stuff is no extra charge. Well fantastic and a great mentioned. Bring
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  the kids, bring the grand kids, something great for the entire family.
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  Again. It is the Wisconsin Fishing Expo running through the weekend, kicking off
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  tomorrow at one o'clock. More details online Wi Fishingexpo dot com. That's Wi
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  Fishingexpo dot com and dan can folks buy tickets online as well. They definitely
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  can do it online. You will get that Ticketmaster fee for convenience, so
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  it is cheapest if you do it at the door cash or credit. But
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  if you do online, you do get in. You can kind of sneak
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  in a little bit quicker with the prepaid TECHNT get through that way. I
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  mentioned some of the some of the seminars. Is there anybody in particular.
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  I know you obviously it's a busy, busy weekend for you, but I
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  know you like to take in some of this. Anybody you're really looking forward
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  to hearing from, or a presentation you're really looking forward to see. Yeah,
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  I mean yeah, Like you said, we have twenty five different seminars.
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  I'm really interested in one that Tom Hoyne is going to do. He's
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  just an absolute stud on a walleye circuit right now, use the various types
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  of ford facing sonar. And then another interesting one is Josh Weisner, who's
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  a converted walleye tournament angler. He was a very good walleye tournament angler and
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  then switched over to bass fishing, and in just two or three years of
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  taking walleye tactics and applying them to bass, he's made the Bass Masters Classic
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  which is it's the Super Bowl. I mean, it's a it can make
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  or break your career at the two hundred thousand dollars event probably, and so
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  I'm really interested in that. And then I'm kind of going to throw a
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  few wing you know, flyers out there and stuff that I don't fish and
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  check out a species I don't. I don't focus on that that Again,
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  it should be exciting for everyone. You mentioned a little something as well for
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  everybody, whether it's something you know, species of fish that you're particular about,
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  or if you want to learn more that cool thing. And Dan correct
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  me if I'm wrong. I mean, here in Wisconsin, we're blessed.
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  We've got a ton of great lakes. We've got great rivers and streams.
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  We've also got a couple of giant lakes that touch our state, a couple
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  of the great lakes. I mean, there's a little bit of something for
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  you know, different types of and I know that the event caters to all,
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  but for people that are maybe you know, traditionally we you know,
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  we fished a particular lake. Maybe we want to learn about about fishing and
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  streams or trout fishing or going out on the Great lakes, maybe chartering a
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  boat or something like that. There's opportunities for those folks as well, isn't
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  there? Oh gosh, yeah, totally yeah. Bill Soltz is one of
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  our bass guys who's doing a stream small mouth seminar and making an applicable to
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  his spot up in Sturgeon Bay as well, which is cool because there's some
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  dandy smallmouth fishing right around here that people don't don't know about. And we
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  have different Great Lakes people speaking and whether it's walleye or bass or even muskie.
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  But one thing I like to do is expose people to new waters.
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  But you know, for instance, fishing Green Bay for walleyes or bass or
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  muskie. But then we'd have our seminars also say hey, come, you
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  can come up there, but how can you use those tactics on the Madison
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  Chain as well, or kashkan On or Lake Wisconsin or the river. So
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  kind of cool, like they get exposure to new stuff but also techniques that
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  they can bring back home. And Dan you mentioned vendor what three hundred and
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  sixty booths, there's a lot. There's a lot to do, a lot
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  to take in and a great opportunity too, and I know as anglers oftentimes
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  quite particular about about things and how great it is whether you're looking at different
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  lures or different tackle and different types of equipment. Actually having the experts on
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  hand to help guide some of those purchasing decisions is we want to make sure
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  that that it's something that you know, we work hard for our money and
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  that we're that we're really fully understanding what we're buying. Having that conversation with
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  the vendor, with the distributor at one of those boots is a huge benefit.
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  Oh heck yeah. I mean we have the national brands of course,
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  and you've got to have them. They bring out to cutting edge stuff,
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  technical stuff. But yeah, I think what makes us so different is we
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  have a lot of a smaller boutique type of hand painted crank baits or hand
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  pour plastics and stuff, and you're going to talk right to the owner and
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  oftentimes they built this bait or this presentation to solve a problem that wasn't already
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  fixed in the industry. So you're going to talk to the actual person who
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  built it, who cast it, who uses it on a daily basis,
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  and can really coach you up on how to do it. And then you
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  know when I mentioned at three hundred and sixty booth, that doesn't even count
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  the one hundred boats we have in both in bulk space. Wow. Yeah,
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  I see like like twelve different dealers, thirty different brands of boats.
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  I mean, it's going to be a great weekend at the Align Energy Center
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  at the ex Bowl Hall. Well. More information available the website Wi Phishingexpo
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  dot com. That's Wi Phishingexpo dot com. You can buy tickets online.
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  Kids under twelve they are free. And some great sponsors as well. Dan,
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  Who's who's all there to make this all happen. Oh, there's a
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  bunch of them. Diowa's One, Wisconsin Outdoor News, Future Angler Fishing Association.
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  There's a lot to roll through. But yeah, it's it's we're really
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  blessed to have the show here in Madison. We have such great support from
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  everybody and we're just we're just happy to be back guns blazing. It'll be
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  it'll be a great weekend. Look forward to seeing you Dan again. That's
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  at the exhibition All Line Energy Center starts tomorrow, runs through the weekend.
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  All the details at Wi Fishingexpo dot com. That's Wi Fishingexpo dot com.
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  Dan, you have a fantastic weekend. Look forward to seeing you real soon
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  you as well. Thank you, and really we really appreciate you having us
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  on every year. It's invaluable source and we just really thank you very much.
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  I always look forward to talking with you Dan. It's great to talk
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  to Dan Durban with the Wisconsin Fishingexpo again Wifishingexpo dot com. Speaking of Dan's
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  Dan o'donald comes your way next year on thirteen ten WYBA