Mixed Reviews From 2010 Start

Inside Booth at the Fishing Expo
2010 really got its start this past weekend with the Fishing Expo at Richmond Raceway. This is our third year doing this show and the first where we had decent weather. At least on Friday and Saturday. Sunday was rainy and nasty but at least it wasn’t brutely cold like the past two years.
We all got to welcome a new member to the Big Red family as Adam Brewer, Kaitlyn’s boyfriend, worked on Friday and Saturday. Tyler, one of their friends who had worked for us at one of the Richmond races, helped on Sunday. Kaitlyn ran our booth inside, Tank and I cooked on Big Red outside.
While it wasn’t the best show we’ve done, it wasn’t bad. A nice solid effort. Our ribeye sales were down from last year and that caused us not to have a great show. But still it is the kind of show I’d like to do every week.

Tank Cooking Steaks Inside Big Red
Plus, I love the staff and promoters. Les and his guys are great to work with.
You can check them out at ncboatshows.com.
With the economy as it is, many of the shows are downsizing. That has caused us to lose a couple of shows we had scheduled in the next month or so which has caused me to do some mad scrambling trying to replace them on my calendar. Couple that with the lousy sales at our basketball games lessons the success of the year’s start.
One the plus side of the equation, we are definitely adding three tracks to our racing schedule for 2010. We will be in Michigan twice, Watkins Glen twice and Kansas once. Because of that, I have to add some more equipment so my research is on going looking for the best deal I can find for some major purchases.
I still don’t have the final word on the national tour but hope that will fall in place shortly as I have a lot of work to do if we’re going to pull it off.
All in all, I’m very excited about the New Year and can’t wait for March to get here when everything starts rolling big time.




























