smalljaw  01/22/2010 - 14:56  Shows and Events    Cabin Creek Bassmaster 7th Annual Sportmens Flea Market
at Washington County Agricultural Education Center
7313 Sharpsburg Pike Boonsboro, MD
Saturday Jan. 23, 2010 9am-4pm
Sunday Jan. 24, 9am-2pm
Admission $3 & children u/12 free
refreshements available

Steve826  12/12/2008 - 16:08  Roll Your Own  Shows and Events    25th annual fishing expo in Timonium is from Thursday January 8th through Sunday January 11th. More info at fishingexpo.com (Hey Mike, i tried the HTML codes to link the site but I couldn't get it to work? If you want to make it into a link, go ahead.) Anyone ever been to one of these? Anyone plan on going this year? I've heard decent things about them, and if nothing else it's a good way to cure cabin fever. Me and my dad will be there Saturday the 10th.

Steve

muskalungee  10/28/2007 - 13:35  Potomac  Shows and Events   

Want to finally meet some of the folks you've "met" at MDfishing.org? Want to swap stories and techniques with other Smallmouth Anglers in the MD/DC/VA/WV area? Then don't miss the UP Fall Gather-odeo, October 26-28 at the Brunswick Family Campground. There are campsites available if you're interested in spending the night, but even if you don't want/need to spend the night you can still swing by to hookup and hangout with like-minded anglers.

We will be having several "tournaments" with prizes sponsored by Case Plastics, as well as some other great prizes. If you're interested in coming along or have any questions/comments, please add a comment to this post. Be sure to also pickup your Official Fall "Gather-odeo" t-shirt, hoodie, and/or sticker all available (at cost) here: http://www.cafepress.com/mdfishing

For additional information, check out the offical Gather-odeo Page
See you there!
Muskalungeee!
-Mike

ogbudha  10/13/2007 - 12:07  Roll Your Own  Shows and Events    I have invited Jeff Little to do a book signing at the Dicks Sporting Goods in Gaithersburg Maryland. We will be having a Fall Fishing in Maryland event. Muskalungee from MDFISHING.ORG will also be doing a presentation on fishing in Maryland. If weather cooperates we will have a few jet rigs and bass boats on the upper deck of the parking garage for our guests to look at. ( my new toy will be there! ) The book signing and info sharing will be happening by the fishing counter inside the store. Dicks Sporting Goods is located at 2 Grand Corner Avenue in Gaithersburg Md 20878. Please email me with any questions that you may have fishpotomac@msn.com Thanks.

muskalungee  09/24/2007 - 09:50  Shows and Events    Well, as you may have noticed I didn't win the Tundra or the Nitro from my 45" Tiger Musky that qualified me for the Maryland Fishing Challenge. Actually, I didn't win a stinkin' thing! They raffled off over 50 prizes before the grand prize drawing and out of the 112 people there...my number wasn't called. I was impressed as to how smoothly things were being run, and was actually about to mention that to the guys that were standing around me....and then they proceeded to the grand prize drawing where it got REAL interesting.

As you can see from this photo, they had a board on stage which had a card which represented each of the five finalists. Each card had 3 blank white squares to represent each of the 3 digits of the 128 registered anglers (out of 224) who showed up to claim their shot at the grand prizes. Someone at DNR thought it would be a great idea to use the Maryland Lotto Machine and pull ping pong balls from the machine to select each of the finalist, one digit at a time. Their fantastic plan was to select all the first digits, then the second, followed by the third until they had their five finalists on stage. However, the issue was that there was only 128 people there and only putting a single "1" and "0" in the hopper slanted the outcome in favor of the people from 100-127 (of which I was # 112).

Being a math geek, I recognized this right away..but it took getting through the first round where 4 of the 5 finalists started with a "1" for the crowd to start to mumble. When the 2nd round started they put balls representing 0-9 in the hopper. Which was fine, until they selected a "4" for one of the finalists that started with a "1". (confused yet?). The problem is that only 100-127 were valid #'s, and now the crowd really started realizing what a debacle this was. People started screaming, yes literally screaming obscenities regarding bovine feces. As if that wasn't bad enough, people starting rushing the stage yelling at Gov. O'Malley. It was quite reminiscent of what happens in the NFL when the ref makes a bad call and the players gather around to make their case.

So, after a quick huddle on stage they scrapped the Lottery approach and sent us all back to the registration table to pick up raffle tickets. From that point on it was pretty smooth. :) But I still didn't win. :)

For the rest of the story, you can see this great writeup by Candus Thomson at the Baltimore Sun:
'Diamond Jim' gimmick sinks fast

To see some of the pics I snapped while I was there: http://picasaweb.google.com/muskalungee/2007MarylandFishingChallenge Also, Governor O'Malley gave a little speech which I have uploaded to youtube and will be posting later today.

Muskalungee!
-Mike

smalljaw  01/01/2006 - 10:30  Shows and Events   
Someone over at Riversmallies has taken the initiative to help everyone manage their cabin fever with a 2006 Fishing Shows Thread.

Enjoy.

smalljaw  01/16/2005 - 16:02  Shows and Events   
Typically held each year in February at the State Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg, PA.

smalljaw  01/16/2005 - 16:00  Shows and Events   
Typically held each year in January at the Maryland State Fair Grounds in Timonium, MD.

smalljaw  01/16/2005 - 14:23  Shows and Events   
I went over to the 2005 Maryland Fishing Expo and Boat Show at the Maryland State Fairgrounds this weekend. I actually made two trips over, the first (Friday) was to work through a list of objectives that I had and the second (Saturday) was to take my son over and maybe hookup with a few people that I know. The second day just ended up being me and my son (Sam) walking around, checking things out, and just being a father and a son. That was great and I really enjoyed myself. I think that Sam had a good time too. The rest of this story is about my list of objectives and how those were met or not met as the case may be.

smalljaw  01/01/2005 - 07:55  Shows and Events   
Muskalungee and I have hit this thing every year for the past few years. I am definitely planning on heading out there this coming year. For full details go over to the web site here. If you've never been it can be a great, but unfortunately temporary, cure for the winter cabin fever.