Anyone make it to the St. Paul Boat Show?

  • marty28
    Mendota Heights, MN
    Posts: 280
    February 13, 2006 at 11:12 pm #1248906

    Anyone see that beast of a boat- the Lake Assault with the twin 225’s and the dropdown front end. That is one intimidating machine , a guy could mount one hell of an amphibious landing and assualt!!

    brian_peterson
    Eagan, MN
    Posts: 2080
    February 14, 2006 at 1:28 am #420288

    Yeah I saw it! all that it needed was a 50 caliber machine gun up front!

    steveo
    W Central Sconnie
    Posts: 4102
    February 14, 2006 at 1:32 am #420290

    I was there on Saturday. Did anybody notice that if you weren’t going to buy an $80,00 cruiser the sales folk were kind of cold? Maybe it was just me. Most of the exhibitors were very disappointed in turnout. It was an owly bunch IMHO.

    marty28
    Mendota Heights, MN
    Posts: 280
    February 14, 2006 at 1:23 pm #420403

    I thought a lot of the salesmen were like vultures. I quit going in to look at any of the different dealers boats because as soon as I started looking in a boat I was bombarded by at least three different salesmen. I just got sick and tired of telling everyone I was just looking!!

    jon_jordan
    St. Paul, Mn
    Posts: 10908
    February 14, 2006 at 1:47 pm #420414

    To be honest, I did’nt even hear about the show until late in the day Sat. They need to do a better job of advertising…..

    gary_wellman
    South Metro
    Posts: 6057
    February 14, 2006 at 3:16 pm #420461

    The good thing is that I got free tickets……..The bad thing was that I had to pay $10 for parking…………That was the worse $10 I’ve ever blown………..I’m sorry, but what a waste of time……This wasn’t a boat show……It was a dealer show……I was very surprised at how small it was.

    The only benefit of going is that Reed’s had some AWESOME deals, included some St. Croix musky rods at 50% off…….

    That was the only benefit of going to that show……Reed’s…….

    But that Lake assault water tank was cool!!!!!!!

    Ended up driving to Cabela’s to burn the rest of the day.

    I did run into Gary Roach and chatted a bit……..But that was about it……

    marty28
    Mendota Heights, MN
    Posts: 280
    February 14, 2006 at 9:35 pm #420605

    Speaking of Mr. Walleye, my friend and I sat in on his presentation for river fishing walleyes. I’m glad I got to listen to him, I learned a lot and it made up for the price of admission (pay to get hounded by dealers!).

    shayla
    Posts: 1399
    February 15, 2006 at 2:58 am #420697

    I was kinda bummin’ that I missed it, now I think I’m glad I did?!?

    pittmd
    Posts: 181
    February 15, 2006 at 5:00 pm #420836

    Sorry, I didn’t see this thread before I posted a simular one.
    Any way I have to agree with some that the it was hard to just look at the boats and not be given a sales pitch.
    What in the world is the Lake Assult used for?

    koldfront kraig
    Coon Rapids mn
    Posts: 1832
    February 15, 2006 at 6:20 pm #420875

    Fire departments for towns with houses on islands.

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