Postby kahuna bass » Sat Mar 02, 2013 7:11 pm
Classic came and went!
What an event. To see that many people come out and take part in the Bassmasters Classic was truly an eye opener.
Once again, traffic through the convention center was busy, but once it got close to weigh in, it was a mass exodus to the arena!! Its amazing how quickly it filled up.
Throughout the day, it was a picture bonanza with your favorite angler. Lines were long, but all seemed to take it in good stride. It was nice to see the cornerstone of the bass industry, Ray Scott, Jimmy Houston, to name a few, than you had the young bucks. Fishing at every level.
What was fun, was to count the number of sponsors on the anglers tournament shirts. The highest I got was 25 sponsors on one shirt. You name it, it was on there.
As with any classics, you see the deal's going on with angler and sponsor. You hear about the crazy money that is given to some of these anglers. But most I spoke with, mentioned that sponsor money is getting harder to come by. An number of companies have actually cut back and streamlined their pro-staff's.
One thing that was funny, was anglers would come into our Phenix booth and swear that they have fished our rods, but once you start talking, most had no ideal who "Phenix" was. They just wanted sponsorship.
Met up with a bunch of college bass anglers, bright and upcoming anglers with a true passion to fish! We were able to sign a number of college anglers to our Phenix pro-staff. They actually had some working knowledge of our rods!
I do have pictures, give me a couple days to get them down loaded.
By the way, I'm currently working with one of your local tackle stores to bring in the Recon 2 and M1 Bass rods. Should have more info in the coming weeks.
Pictures coming soon.
Mel - Kahuna bass
If you ain't fish'n, you ain't have'n fun...Got fish!
second place never felt so bad! Could have traded in my 11 z8 and upgraded to a 2013 z9 fully loaded and then some!
