Sportsmens Show is about the people

For most outdoor enthusiasts, the annual Ottawa Sportsmen’s Show is more about passion and love for the great outdoors, than it is the 30-foot yachts.

 

Each year, hoards of people tramp through Lansdowne Park to gaze at the boats, kick a few tires and occasionally ask about available financing options – And there is nothing wrong with that – But for others, the Show is more about the little things near and dear to the average sportsman’s heart – the people.

 

 

 It is about chatting with professionals like Big Jim and trying your luck at the Minto casting pond, or filing your bag with as many brochures as you can stuff-in.

 

It’s a chance to walk the floor; visit with old friends you may see but once a year, or perhaps exchange old hunting and fishing stories.

 

It is about the people and the exhibitors, you see, that make the Sportsmen’s Show a success – a diverse and dedicated bunch of outdoor aficionados.

 

This year some  real ‘big wigs’ like Bob Izumi and Dave Mercer will be on-hand, plus other big names like Cam Brownson of Angler and Hunter television, Lonnie King of OOD and Thomas Pigeon of the Canada in the Rough TV Show.

 

Also, two guys I had featured in my Outdoors Column more times than I can remember; Jamie Pistilli and Lawrence Euteneier.

 

Jamie is a renowned local kayak fisherman and host of the new Television series Big City Fishing. Do yourself a favour and go check him out!

 

Lawrence is a blind angler who has designed the world’s first fishing boat for the seeing impaired. Lawrence’s breakthrough fishing craft will be the cat’s meow for thousands of blind anglers.

 

It’s people like these that make the Show a worthwhile visit year after year!

 

The doors open at Landsdowne this Thursday at 11 AM and run till Sunday.

 

 

Outdoorsguy