The Columbus RV Super Show is back, bigger and better than ever.  Now with over 20 of the Best RV Dealers from as far away as Cincinnati and Cleveland.  You can go to a show with 2 or 3 dealers, but wait to buy until you visit the Columbus RV Super Show.

Never before has the selection been so good.  Motor-homes, Travel Trailers, Fifth Wheels, Camper Vans, Pop-Ups… It’s all here in two big buildings… Columbus you have waited for this… so wait a little more until March 11-13, at the Ohio Expo Center, in the Celeste and Lausche Buildings.

Check out RVEXPO.NET for more information and SEMINAR SCHEDULE!

The first annual Cleveland Boat Super Show is 95% sold out.  When most boat show are struggling to even survive, this show is selling out.  Where do you want to go?Come see what everyone is talking about… See over 25 Dealers currently signed up to participate in this brand new event.  The show will feature almost every available  fish, pleasure, performance, personal watercraft, or ski boats, from only the finest boat dealers from as far away as Cincinnati.

The inaugural event will be headlined by our very own rail jam with over 200′ of pools, ramps, rails, and jumps.. never before seen in Ohio!

Don’t forget our Triton Bass Boat contest… and our sister show the 73rd Cleveland Sports and Travel Show, being held at the same time right next door in the same building… in the new Great Lakes Expo Center in Euclid.

There will never be a show like this! What a weekend!!

Free Parking, $8.00 admission, Easy access, Door Prizes… are just some of the great surprises waiting for the attendees at the 2011 Cleveland Boat Super Show!

For more information contact Rob Lynch at 941-780-0538

BASS BOATS- Ranger, Stratos, Bass Cat, Legend, Triton, Starcraft, Crestliner, Skeeter, Smokercraft, G3, Lowe, Lund, Pheonix, Tracker, Nitro…. Plus some fine quality pre-owned boats

FISHING KAYAKS

OVER 20 TACKLE VENDORS

SEMINARS BY- Woo Daves, Joe Thomas, Bill Lowen, Jeff Keoster, Justin and Crash Mullins, Gerald Roper, and Mike Iaconelli

FISHING SCHOOL- Lowrance, Hummingbird, Reel Cleaning and Maintenance, Line  Selection…. All of these schools are defined sit down classes complete with goody bags for each student.   Limited space for each specialized class so email ASAP to reserve your spot.  Email jason@rvexpo.net

HOURLY DOOR PRIZES

1800 gallon VICIOUS TROPHY TANK- Packed full of trophy gamefish

22′ x 50′ 25,000 gallon SECRET WEAPON SLOG LAKE- With Rocks, Brush, Lilly Pads, Weeds, and Docks… With an Electronic TV backdrop showing continuous video clips of fishing.

Check out  RVEXPO.NET for specific seminar schedule and more info…  This is the one you have been waiting for, so don’t miss it!

At the first 9 Odyssey Events in our 2011 show season, starting with the upcoming Tri State Fishing Extravaganza, attendees will be able to register for this contest. At each show a winner will be chosen and they will receive $500 and a chance to win the Grand Prize… A 2011 Triton 17′ Explorer Bass Boat with a 60 horsepower Mercury outboard.

In addition to $500, each winner will also be given one night hotel accommodations in Nashville during our Nashville Boat and RV Super Show.

On Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 3:00pm, Triton founder Earl Bentz will present the grand prize, Triton Bass Boat to one of the lucky 9 regional winners on hand.

This exciting promotion was made possible by our new promotional partners at Triton Boats and the help of Clarks Marine in Franklin Tn.

For Odyssey Events’ RV shows in 2011, they have booked two national recognized personalities in the RV industry for seminars. “The RV Doctor” and John Holod

National recognized and TV host “The RV DR” is now scheduled to give seminars during the Dayton/Cincinnati RV Super Show, Columbus RV Super Show, Cleveland RV and Camper Show, and the Nashville RV and Boat Super show. The seminars will cover the following:

Saturday, 11am: “Ten Maintenance Tips Every RVer Should Know”
3pm: “RV Tires— Proper Care & Safety”

Sunday, 1pm: “The Spring Shakedown”

http://www.rvdoctor.com/

Award winning videographer John Holod will be providing video seminars at the Columbus RV Super show, Nashville RV and Boat Super show, Cleveland RV and Camper Show, and the second weekend of the Dayton/Cincinnati RV Super show. The seminars will cover his famous videos of “The Rocky Mountains”, “Alaska”, and “Down The East Coast”, all from the RV perspective.

http://www.rvadventurevideos.com/

About Vicious
Fish and fishing has always been an important part of my family’s life, beginning with me. I remember as a small child those times when I got a small goldfish, took it home, carefully placed it in a fish bowl and my mother telling me it was my responsibility. How proud I was of my new pet. Later in my childhood, around the age of 12, going on those full day fishing trips with my dad in the gulf and coming home with a big catch, blisters, and incredible memories.

One of my early memories as an mother was our kids with Mr. Lee, our neighbor. My husband and I were busy with the business, and, Mr. Lee took the time to take Jeff and Julie fishing. They learned about the lake, fishing, and the values that come from the great outdoors. I will never forget the day Mr. Lee passed away and Jeff told us, with gigantic alligator tears rolling down his cheek, without Mr. Lee he would never fish again.

Isn’t it amazing how life works in mysterious ways? We have now come full circle and we hope our Vicious Fishing Line and the Vicious branded products will help you catch the big one. I can only hope fishing with our brand will bring you the same type memories it has me.

One final comment… Jeff, Julie and I will do everything in our power to insure that our top quality fishing products will always perform better than you expect.
So be and sure to check there website out: www.vicious-fishing.com

About Secret Weapon Lures:
Who is Secret Weapon Lures? We are anglers like you, fishing spinnerbaits and thinking there has to be a better way. Folks in our company are dyed-in-the-wool fishermen. In our workshop in the southern Ozarks, we mold, hand-paint, and assemble each lure, giving it the same attention we would if we were making it for our own use.

More important than our names and faces are what we are trying to accomplish and the core beliefs that guide us. That’s what this page is about. It is also our commitment to you.
Thank you for business and your support of American craftsmen.

Joe Haubenreich
President, Secret Weapon

Mission

Secret Weapon equips anglers to maximize their performance with advanced fishing tackle engineered to adapt to changing conditions. We provide our customers with an uncommon approach to fishing and are dedicated to making a positive difference in their lives.

Our Values and Priorities

INTEGRITY
Secret Weapon Lures, Inc. believes that integrity is the cornerstone of our business and all of our relationships, and that God is the arbiter of right and wrong; therefore we will do what is right with our customers, vendors and people regardless of the cost to us.

CUSTOMERS
Secret Weapon Lures, Inc. believes that our primary focus is customer delight and look at issues from our customer’s perspective; therefore we listen to, understand, and deliver the quality our customers expect.

PEOPLE/LOYALTY
We believe our people represent our most valuable resource and are concerned for them personally; therefore we select, train, empower, and reward those who share our passion for customer service and commitment to our vision and values.

PROFITS
Secret Weapon’s ability to properly serve our customers depends on long-term profitability; therefore we will invest the resources (time, money, talent, and relationships) that God provides to generate long-term profitability to strengthen our company, reward our employees, provide better value for our customers, and enable us to be charitable.

SERVICE/INNOVATION
To consistently delight our customers means more than just selling them fishing products and services. We listen, understand, and communicate about our customers’ needs and provide innovative solutions for them; therefore Secret Weapon Lures, Inc. will solicit and proactively anticipate opportunities to add value to our customers. We not only innovate, we enable our customers to do so as well.

Secret Weapon Founder Bob Rickard
On September 3, 2007, Bob Rickard passed away at his home in St. Charles, Missouri. For years, Rickard courageously and patiently battled a host of health issues that might have broken the spirit of most men, but throughout he remained upbeat. People who called on Bob to encourage him invariably were uplifted by his positive, light-hearted attitude. His love for family, friends, and fishing was apparent to all. The ingenuity that produced Bob’s truly unique spinnerbait design and his commitment to go an extra mile for his customers are woven into the fabric of the company he founded. He remains an example of how to bless people and handle adversity. Bob Rickard will be fondly remembered and sorely missed by his co-workers, vendors, customers, and friends whose lives he enriched.

Secret Weapon was conceived on clear-flowing Missouri streams and took form on the workbench of this skilled mechanical engineer and ardent angler. Over a span of thirty-five years, Rickard handcrafted a number of innovative baits, testing and perfecting them on the lakes and rivers of America’s heartland.

A law student who became a self-taught mechanical engineer, Rickard was Production Manager for Comet Tool and Die Company, manufacturer of precision components for the aircraft, aerospace, and defense industries. At McDonnell Aircraft his engineering team assisted on projects that included the F-14 Tomcat, F-15 Eagle, and the lunar landing module. To make the most of his few free hours he kept rods rigged and gear packed for short trips down the small streams and rivers of southeast Missouri.

One characteristic of all spinnerbaits at the time was that the twirling blade “helicoptered” the bait upward. At rapid retrieves it rose to the surface. Bob wanted to be able to keep his lure deeper, and he found opportunity to tackle this engineering problem as he recuperated from open-heart surgery in 1992. Unable to exert himself to even bend even a spinnerbait frame, he used lightweight stainless steel wire to fashion in-line spinners that he used to replace the split ring and swivel-mounted blades. The results in his first test tank (his bathtub) were promising, and when he was finally able to return to the river, he was amazed to learn that his redesign achieved not only greater range of depth and speed, but a long list of other advantages as well.

Rickard had long preferred using in-line spinners for their ability to attract more species of fish, but he acknowledged the superiority of the safety-pin style for fishing around brush, lay-downs, and vegetation. By marrying the two using his patented, no-tool, quick-change universal spinner blade attachment, he introduced the first true innovation in spinnerbaits since the original came out forty-seven years earlier. Coincidentally, St. Louis — the birthplace of the original safety-pin spinnerbait design — was the city of its rebirth as the Secret Weapon Spinnerbait, too.

While fishing from a canoe, another advantage of his design became immediately apparent to Rickard; by swapping blades, he could drastically reduce the number of lures he needed to carry without sacrificing versatility. With a few heads and a handful of blade attachments, he could assemble the perfect spinnerbait for virtually any situation in seconds, without tools.

Even more exciting, though, was his discovery that the free-floating, inline blade assembly produced better vibration and rotated at even slower speeds than swivel-mounted blades. That resulted in more hits, plus he was getting more solid hookups because the blade attachments simply swung out of the way on the strike rather than blocking the hook as convention spinnerbait frames often do. For many years, only family and fishing buddies experienced firsthand the effectiveness of his lures.

After a term as part owner of Manchester Machine and Manufacturing in St. Louis, Rickard built a successful audio and video equipment business. He devoted himself after retirement to the outdoor pursuits he loves and to refinement and perfection of the lure that is earning a place in anglers’ tackle boxes around the world.

Convinced that no other lures came close to matching his own design, in 2001 Rickard began market-testing the commercial potential of his spinnerbait designs. He proved them through rigorous field-testing by experienced guides and tournament anglers from across the United States, identified the patterns that produced best in every region, and then introduced them to the retail market a year later.

Several heart attacks and failing health curtailed Rickard’s level of activity during the last decade, but he delighted in seeing the lures he designed earn the confidence of anglers everywhere and in passing on his experience, insights, fishing lore to others.
Check them out at their website:

http://www.secretweaponlures.com/index.htm

Minn Kota is coming out with the Talon which is similar to the power pole, Diablo Paddlesports has some exciting kayaks to hit the market, there are a ton of new baits for fresh and salt water (hard and soft). Couple that caught are eye was the Koppers frog and a squid with interchangeable heads for saltwater. Skeet Reese has a new reel sponsor and more. Plan on blogging as the show goes on for the next few days, if I can find some free time.