NOVI, Mich. (WXYZ) - The Ultimate Fishing Show returns to the Detroit area Thursday, January 8 at the Rock Financial Showplace in Novi. The event is billed as Michigan’s largest pure-fishing show. Here's what the show has to offer:- Seven downstate boat dealers offer tremendous selection and value with 200 new fishing boats—everything from 8-foot kayaks to 26-foot offshore trolling craft. Deals abound with buying incentives that include easy financing, extended warranties, cash rebates, factory buybacks, excellent trade-in programs, and special discounts.
Scores of fishing tackle displays. New rods, reels, electronics and fishing accessories from southeast Michigan retailers, plus one-of-a-kind lure makers and direct-factory displays from major manufacturers. New vendors include The Anchor Wizard from Evart, K & E Minnow Traps in Westland, and Looney Toons Charters, makers of the new Speedy Spoon in Saginaw.
Outfitters Expo with charter boat captains, fishing guides, outfitters and lodge owners offering value-packed angling adventures in Michigan, the Great Lakes, Canada and beyond. Lake Ultimate, sponsored by Evinrude: An enormous indoor lake that holds 110,000 gallons of water, Lake Ultimate is 92 feet long by 40 feet wide by 4 feet deep. Packed with tough-to-catch rainbow trout, it’s the ultimate seminar platform for national experts like Kevin Van Dam, America’s hottest bass fisherman, and Babe Winkelman, who presents fishing secrets using the latest in Evinrude technology. - The Fishing Academy: The country’s biggest and best all-star lineup of fishing experts--30 speakers offering 109 seminars, clinics and demonstrations on four stages. New speakers include Lucian Gizel on how to fish from a kayak, Marcel Veenstra on bass fishing with specialty lures, and Wisconsin walleye angling pro, Jason Przekurat. Several charter boat captains are new seminar leaders: Joe Raymer on ice fishing for walleyes, Chip Cartwright on salmon trolling, and Doug Samsal on fishing for multi-species on Lake St. Clair.
Fee-based Super Clinics for walleye by Mark Romanack on Saturday and salmon/steelhead by Best Chance experts Bill Bale and Dave Engel on Sunday are limited to 100 students, each of whom pay $25 and receive a goody bag stuffed with sponsor products. - Seminar leader Bob Brunner, the 84-year-old fishing guide from Shelby Township, will unveil a hand-carved replica of a 56 and one-half inch-long Great Lakes muskie he caught in Big Brevort Lake in 1975. Artist Doug Murphy recently completed the carving of the 50-pound-plus fish for Brunner, who was inducted into the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame in 2005 and who began fishing Lake St. Clair in 1929.
- Colton Bay Outfitters in Ann Arbor offer free fly-tying and fly-fishing demonstrations on Lake Ultimate.
The full seminar schedule is at www.UltimateFishingShow.com
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