The Milwaukee Ice Fishing & Winter Sports Show returns for its fourth year at the Wisconsin State Fair Park next month, running Dec. 8-10. During the three-day winter extravaganza, attendees can shop rows of exhibits full of the latest products and services dedicated to the avid ice fishing and winter sports enthusiast from the nation’s leading fishing and outdoors vendors.
This year’s show will feature new merchandise at a variety of price points, from the most well-respected ice fishing and outdoors brands such as Rapala Ice Force, Striker Brands and Glacier Ice Houses. Highlights include augers, digital fish finders, fish houses, underwater cameras, rods and reels, apparel and accessories.
Attendees can also learn all about new ice fishing techniques from the professionals at any of the daily seminars.
And, for the first time in show history, Santa and Mrs. Claus will be in attendance on Saturday, Dec. 9 from noon until 3 p.m.
The 2017 Milwaukee Ice Fishing & Winter Sports Show is open on Friday, Dec. 8 from 12 to 8 p.m., on Saturday, Dec. 9 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and on Sunday, Dec. 10 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tickets for this year’s show are $9 for adults, $4 for children between the ages of 6 and 12 and free for children ages five and under.
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Born in Milwaukee but a product of Shorewood High School (go ‘Hounds!) and Northwestern University (go ‘Cats!), Jimmy never knew the schoolboy bliss of cheering for a winning football, basketball or baseball team. So he ditched being a fan in order to cover sports professionally - occasionally objectively, always passionately. He's lived in Chicago, New York and Dallas, but now resides again in his beloved Brew City and is an ardent attacker of the notorious Milwaukee Inferiority Complex.
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