Post-Show Whirlwind

What a show, what a show. True to form, the ISE crew put on the biggest and best sports show Sacramento will see this year- always a class act!

As for Gone Fishin'? You can see from the young man's face, the deals were incredible! Mark, Luke and Beau manned 5640 sq ft worth of boats-for-sale all weekend, and did themselves proud. It probably required a Rockstar beverage or two to get through the long hours and lines of customers, but they got a lot accomplished and will be putting a bunch of lucky families on the water in new boats over the next few weeks.

We all know, "it takes a village," and Gone Fishin' owes a big thank-you to our volunteer crew for such excellent support. They towed boats, they set up the display, they cleaned boats, they sold boats, and they turned around and worked until late Sunday night getting everything back to the shop. We couldn't have made the show such a great one without Ron Brown and his Nitro expertise, Bruce Sheldon who knows Lund boats like the back of his hand, Lloyd Carter who could be an engineer for Lowrance, Preston Henson our Z9'er who knows how to play through the pain, and Billy Hines who knows something about everything. Thanks guys- you rock!

We had some guest stars in the booths from our own staff- namely Tackle Tyler, taking a swing at boat sales, and one of our behind-the-scenes movers and shakers, James, spent a couple days trying on a new hat. Tyler was also kind enough to lend his artistic eye to the booth and let us borrow some of his studio lighting- we didn't manage to get the disco ball hoisted in time, but the boats looked ready for a Saturday Night Fever showdown by the time he was done with 'em!

Another highlight was the CIFFI booth... no other vendor space was capped by a 16' boat to give away. And we do mean "capped." The prize boat was lofted a good 12' in the air for display above the booth walls! It looked majestic, and prompted a bunch more entries for the raffle, and inspired a whole new crowd of members we can't wait to meet!

If you missed it, never fear. There's still one more show left in March!