03-17-2019, 01:44 PM
SLC is such a small market, that the big vendors don't put the effort in for a show here. While I was attending graduate school in Oklahoma, I got to attend the show in OKC and it was about twice the size of the SLC show, EVERY major vendor was there, with BASS Pro Shops having almost a quarter of the floor space. Lowrance introduced their GPS units one year, which was incredible. They had units installed in vehicles and would drive you around showing you how it worked, neat. You got to see almost all the new tackle, with the professional anglers sponsored by the different companies there. The boat displays were off the wall. The boat manufactures were the vendors, with support from local dealers, not local dealers footing the bill like here. If you ever get a chance to attend a show in a different market, you will get a very different experience.