Outdoors: Economy’s latest victim: tackle show

 
By Ed Godfrey | Published: February 1, 2009   
photo - For the first time in 30 years, there will be no Oklahoma Tackle Show at State Fair Park. The slow economy forced cancellation of this year’s show, originally scheduled Feb. 12-15. Photo By Steve Gooch, THE OKLAHOMAN
For the first time in 30 years, there will be no Oklahoma Tackle Show at State Fair Park. The slow economy forced cancellation of this year’s show, originally scheduled Feb. 12-15. Photo By Steve Gooch, THE OKLAHOMAN

The annual Oklahoma Tackle Show, billed as the largest tackle show in the Southwest, has been cancelled for 2009.

The downturn in the economy forced cancellation of the show, said Todd Jameson, the show’s producer.

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Always held the second weekend of February at State Fair Park, this would have been the 30{+t}{+h} consecutive year of the Oklahoma Tackle Show.

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