Casting in Charlotte

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Posted by: Anonymous User (Moderator)

Date: January 05, 2005 01:32PM

The National Rod Builders' Show has effectively doubled in size this year. Twice as many vendor booths require twice as much room. So, this year the show will expand into an additional aisle.

We will again have our own casting area and with luck, we'll have water in it with the target casting rings as well. We'll most likely set it up at the head of one of the aisles rather than down and behind one of them as we did last year. The "pool" will be large and long enough to about any type casting you want, short of long distance surf casting (although there's room to do that behind the rod building area along the full length of the exhibition hall - we'd prefer that people are not slinging 5 ounces of lead indoors where someone might get hurt).

The Featured Rod Builder booth area will be larger than a single booth so that we can better handle the expected crowds. The demos that take place there won't be quite as detailed as those being presented upstairs in the seminar rooms. They're designed more for close-up, quick instructional purposes and will be taking place during the day, both days.

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