OUTDOOR EXPO VISITS SOCAL DEMONSTRATIONS HIGHLIGHT SHOW.Byline: Bill Becher Special to the Daily News POMONA - The International Sportsmen's Exposition made its first visit to Southern California on Jan. 10-13 at the Fairplex in Pomona. Visitors were treated to demonstrations of fly-casting, bass fishing, elk calling, sporting-dog training and many other outdoor activities. Exhibitors showed their wares, from taxidermy taxidermy (tăk`sĭdûr'mē), process of skinning, preserving, and mounting vertebrate animals so that they still appear lifelike. to fishing gear to a new jet-prop-powered kayak. The Exposition included an Outdoor Sports Youth Fair sponsored by the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. Kids had the opportunity to catch and release trout in an artificial stream that made its debut at the exposition. This was the first stop for the ISE Ise (ē`sā), city (1990 pop. 104,164), Mie prefecture, S Honshu, Japan, on Ise Bay. It is one of the foremost religious centers of Shinto, the site of the shrines of Ise. shows, which visit seven western cities: Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Mateo, Pleasanton, Denver, Phoenix and Salt Lake City. Fly-casters had a chance to qualify for a ``Best of the West'' distance fly-casting competition with fully outfitted Hyde drift boats as the grand prizes. Ian Walker's winning cast of more than 119 feet beat Tom Rowland, who won the 2000 ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network Great Outdoor Games The Great Outdoor Games is a series of outdoor games created by ESPN. Great Outdoor Games individual events include:
Aaron Anderson, president of PowerKak Inc. in Covina, was showing off his new jet-prop-powered kayaks. A 22cc four-stroke Honda engine runs the jet drive that Anderson has developed and patented. Both single and tandem versions are available. The power unit is designed to shut down automatically in the event of a rollover A graphic element in an application or on a Web page that changes its color or shape when the pointer is moved (rolled) over it. See JavaScript rollover. See also n-key rollover. . The company hopes to sell the kayaks for touring, hunting, fishing and diving. Sage Rods were showing their new high-end fly rods, the SLT SLT Salut (French) SLT Sri Lanka Telecom SLT Senior Leadership Team SLT Something Like That SLT Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty SLT South Lake Tahoe (California) SLT Single Line Telephone Series for anglers looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a rod with a more relaxed action and light weight. The rods are available in two- to five-piece versions from zero to eight weights. TyGer Leader was displaying its new nylon-coated, flexible leader material that can be tied with most regular fishing knots, so you don't have to learn the haywire twist. It's available in 5- to 120-pound strength. Bass fishermen are using the leader to pull lunkers out of the tulies, according to Robert Sherman, pro staff manager at TyGer. The wire leader also is perfect for fishing for toothy critters. The show set up a ``celebrity fly-tying theater,'' where well-known tiers such as Gary Borger, Jack Dennis, Jim Teeny Teeny 1/16 or 0.0625 of one full point in price. Steenth. and Tom Rowland demonstrated their art. Borger, author of many classic fly-fishing books, was displaying a new book, ``Nature of Fly Casting'' by his son, Jason. The younger Borger was the stunt fly-caster in the Robert Redford film ``A River Runs Through It.'' ``We were extremely pleased with the show,'' said John Kirk, spokesman for ISE. ``Our exhibitors told us they met a lot of good new customers they hadn't seen before. They are looking forward to next year. Early indications are that we will expand to another hall in 2003.'' CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Dan Murry of Azusa, left, and his 10-month-old son, Joseph, watch trout at the Fairplex in Pomona. (2) PowerKak Inc. president Aaron Anderson of Covina shows off the inboard Built in. Inboard devices are built into the main unit. Contrast with outboard. See onboard. jet-prop-powered kayak he invented. Bill Becher/Special to the Daily News |
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