It's unfortunate that you choose not to join the IFISH BB. They have great information on fishing in the Portland/Vancouver area. Jen's registration process is a bit cumbersome but she does it for a good reason. A small minority of users are simply too much of a problem and they've been booted off.

I got around the issue by indicating that I've been a long time member of this BB (with the same moniker) and if they wanted to search my past posts, they're free to do so. It would be easy to tell whether I'm a trouble maker or not. I'd like to think I'm not.....

My suggestion is to give it another try. There are times when the information provided on IFISH greatly exceeds what I can find on Bob's BB, particularly for the Portland/Vancovuer area.