The Rock Hards were around 3 tables down the aisle from the lucky crafts. I picked up the 10 inch Rock Hard Slow Sink and 2 bottles of Mend-it. Looking back I probably should have bought some of the x-treme reel lubricant to help maintain my reels.

The custom painted Lunker Punkers were INSANE!!! Black Dog baits also had their go-2 minnow there along with their weedless soft plastic baits and a 3 piece lipless trout. They all looked good but resisted the urge to drop any money on them.

I overheard Ken Huddleston saying the 6 inch Hudds were basically gone at opening. I didn't even see one for display which would have been nice.

I was looking for larger swimbaits so the mattlures booth didn't have as much appeal to me but those shads he had there looked real good. Definately check them out if you are in the market for the smaller shad baits.

22nd century baits was there too selling the triple trouts and they had a bluegill bait that was running $69.99 which was a little expensive for my tastes. The bait looked interesting though

There was definately an abundance of lures to look at. Most of the booths were swimbait related. Or maybe since I was there mainly to look at swimbaits that is what I remember seeing. They had a nice selection of the dobyns rods there including the 795ML swimbait rod, the 806 ML swimbait rod and the 807 swimbait rod. If they would have had some kind of special on them I would have picked up the 795 but will wait to get it from my local shop.

For my first bass-a-thon I WAS NOT disappointed. I hope to be back next year... with more money...

Erik