11-29-2018, 07:31 AM
Jeff, I share your enthusiasm also with the belief that it will be BIG … so big that we should consider a place with a lot of parking and either a non-challenging walk for novices or someone nice enough to shuttle the less athletic with a snowmobile.
I know an organizational way to make it less hectic for too few of us being shared by otherwise too many there to learn. We could lay out a path from one of us to another with brightly colored paracord and a bell every five minutes for our guests to get a five minute presentation at each station and then move onto the next to get variety from all of our different ways and different equipment.
We're into contests, so here's a contest idea with a twist. We can compete for our guests to be the ones to catch the fish, so those of us who are best at teaching our best techniques would have a greater advantage for winning with only fish caught by our guests counting. Cheating in the form of first showing them how to jig with the right motion or to set the hook might be allowed provided that it is to show them first for them to try to duplicate the same next and the fish just wasn't paying attention to who was holding the rod. Perhaps they can reel up the fish that demonstrated the effectiveness of the hook set technique of the teachers among us.
Those concepts would likely go far to entice equipment manufacturers and sellers to participate because they would be interested in the ice fishing market expanding with new people who will be needing to buy equipment once they become "hooked" on ice fishing.
Likewise, the participation of equipment manufacturers and sellers will do a lot to make our event attractive to a LOT of people considering getting into ice fishing.
Ronald
I know an organizational way to make it less hectic for too few of us being shared by otherwise too many there to learn. We could lay out a path from one of us to another with brightly colored paracord and a bell every five minutes for our guests to get a five minute presentation at each station and then move onto the next to get variety from all of our different ways and different equipment.
We're into contests, so here's a contest idea with a twist. We can compete for our guests to be the ones to catch the fish, so those of us who are best at teaching our best techniques would have a greater advantage for winning with only fish caught by our guests counting. Cheating in the form of first showing them how to jig with the right motion or to set the hook might be allowed provided that it is to show them first for them to try to duplicate the same next and the fish just wasn't paying attention to who was holding the rod. Perhaps they can reel up the fish that demonstrated the effectiveness of the hook set technique of the teachers among us.
Those concepts would likely go far to entice equipment manufacturers and sellers to participate because they would be interested in the ice fishing market expanding with new people who will be needing to buy equipment once they become "hooked" on ice fishing.
Likewise, the participation of equipment manufacturers and sellers will do a lot to make our event attractive to a LOT of people considering getting into ice fishing.
Ronald