I have to say too it was a suberb weekend and the company I kept, made it for me. There's so much chatter on this forum but just sitting down drinking a beer with some true gents of the lure world, swapping funny tales and talking freekin none stop for 4 days about fishing was simply magic. Ultimate were extremely generous with their time and hospitality and the show itself lived up to expectations. So much stuff to see, so much stuff to absorb, so much stuff to buy and yes, we are way behind the French but I think this year has shown we have the enthusiasm to at least try and play catch-up. Nantes will kick start a lot for those of us who went this year, watch this space, I think everyone said exactly the same thing whilst we were there, "2010 will be a good year."
I'm going to post a bunch of photos and some detailed thoughts on what I found at Nantes in the next day or two, I hope everyone else will too.