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No problem at all. Glad we're good. Update - got voice mail this morning from Vita Pallotta. She's still waiting for the guys involved to confirm the schedule, but hopes to have a copy of it in my mailbox "by the end of the weekend." I'm supposed to call her if it doesn't arrive.

Kennyman, I apologize - I really wasn't trying to say you'd done anything wrong. Completely the opposite - what I'd tried to say was that you'd gotten it right. You posted first, using a very clear and concise subject line, which included the terms that the majority of people would search on. Two thumbs way up from me. When I mentioned the other threads, it wasn't to stomp on yours. It was just an attempt to help anyone who would find this thread using the search, but not find the others. I don't think the other threads are better, or that this one needs to disappear. It just seemed that having a trail of breadcrumbs to connect all the dots might help someone, so I tried to be helpful. Sorry for the misunderstanding! Good luck getting an exhibitor's list. Never even occurred to me to ask about that, since there's no floor plan. If you get a copy of either one, I'd love to see them. FWIW, I'm still waiting for the seminar schedule to hit my In box.

Thanks for adding details about the trolling seminar, Yvan. You might want to drop a note about it (or some kind of crossreference pointing here) into the Al Lindner at Fishing and Boat Show thread, too. These 2 threads are pretty much the same topic, but this thread will show up better on searches, while the other one has a bigger audience as it sits. New word early this morning is that the seminar schedule is still in the process of being finalized. Once everything's confirmed ("soon"), I'll get a copy. It'll be posted here as soon as I see it. A slightly longer description of tentatively scheduled events is in this post in the Al Lindner thread. One last cross-reference for anyone landing here via the search function: look here too, just in case.

Thanks, irishfield. When the boat came out for the winter, I switched over to geocaching to get some fresh air. Haven't been in a tackle shop in months, so anything that's just posted at the store I'm not going to know about. Email from Andrew Pollatta landed in my box early this morning. He says he's just finalizing the schedule now, and will get it to me once it's been confirmed...which should be soon. Other relevant info: "We will be hosting seminars, product reviews, Q&A Pro Panels discussing bass, walleye, salmon and ice fishing. We will also be offering Pro Tips between seminars...there will definately be a lot of things to learn! The Salmon Masters Seminar is being run by Scotty and there is a limited amount of tickets available for this seminar. It takes place on Saturday February 16 at 8:00 am to 11:00 am. The price for the seminar is $10 which includes entry into the show. Tickets may be purchased at participating tackle retailers - J.B.'s Fishing Depot, Tightlines, Natural Sports, Grimsby Tackle, Fishing World and Hook Line & Sinker." Just getting into the show: $12. Getting into the show + a seat at the salmon seminar: $10. Pays to be into salmon, I guess. More updates as I get 'em...

Actually, I did call them. A little after 2pm on Monday, I called the main show office 905-640-2277 (per a press release Google found on another site). I got an answering machine identifying itself as the main line for the CSFL. Left a message asking for someone to please call my cell with information on how I could find the seminar schedule. By 4pm today, I'd heard nothing. Called that # again, and got shunted off to what sounded like a cell phone answering service. You know, the one where the computer says "you have been forwarded to a blah blah blah, <recording of customer awkwardly saying his/her name> is unavailable blah blah." The recording went on to say that the mailbox was full. Surprising, considering the different recording at that number on Monday. I hadn't caught the name it played today, so I hit redial to hear it again...and the phone was answered by a very young sounding woman. I explained to her what I wanted, and that I'd left a message on Monday that hadn't been returned. She said that Andrew Pallotta is the one in charge of scheduling, gave me his cell #, and assured me that if I called him right then he would answer. I thanked her, dialed his number, and he answered. He offered to email me the complete schedule, if I'd drop my address in his mailbox. He asked what kind of fishing I was interested in, said that Al Lindner was the man I needed to see, and that he would only be at the show on Fri/Sat. No times specified. Give or take another round of thank yous, that was the extent of the call. As requested, I dropped my address into his mailbox a minute or two after getting off the phone. I haven't received a seminar schedule yet, but if/when it does arrive, I'll make sure everyone gets to see it. Useless trivia: the flyer graphic shown at http://www.fishandboatshow.com was changed at some point in the last 2 days. You can compare the current version with the last version if you want. This close to a show, I've usually already gone through the exhibitors list, culled them down to what we want, and I'm color-coding a copy of the floor plan to show booths of interest according to category. I should be halfway through making a shopping list, with notes on likely sources/exhibitors/booths for unusual items. If I haven't already printed out tickets for Hubby and I, I at least know where to buy them online and have a reminder scheduled. As it sits, I have no clue who's exhibiting, who's lecturing on what subject when, where to get tickets, whether we need special tickets for certain (or all) seminars, or even what day to go. Haven't even started the shopping list - what would be the point. I'm with Roy....it's a bad feeling. Fishindevil and memart know more than I do, since they've posted in this thread that they have special tickets to specific seminars. Hopefully they'll chime in and tell us where they got them, and how they found out about them in the first place.

A year or two ago, someone in some lab UofT (yay Google!) mistakenly punched my unlisted home number into a fax queue on a Friday afternoon, then left for the weekend. I tried calling UofT to tell them about the problem, but the office was closed until Monday, too. After running to answer the phone half a dozen times, I finally called the operator for help. She told me that this happens every day, and there's a routine procedure to fix it. If I would just hang up and dial 611, they'd take down the #, fill out a form, and I wouldn't get any more calls. No charge. I took her up on it, and the calls stopped immediately. I don't see much difference between those unattended spam diallers and an unattended fax. After the 3rd call, I ask 611 to get rid of them.

I talked to Andrew Pallotta this afternoon via phone, and he's promised to email me the complete schedule. When I get it, I'll post it here for everyone.