I remember the tone on the board before registration began in Mar. 99. Must have existed for about a year or so prior. Lot of juvenile smack and banter - no I mean the kind that makes the SRC smack thread seem mature and sophisticated. The board is really clean compared to Bob's initial foray into cyberspace and interwebz. He must be doing something right. He outlasted the only other fishing website of quality, and that was fly fishing centric. The Virtual Fly Shop was owned by Fly Fisherman magazine, but when the mag was bought by another published they made VFS use a format and software common to that publisher's family of magazines, and it went down the tube. I mention that one because it was international, and I met a lot of cool anglers around this country and from other countries. Salmon and steelhead are regional, and Bob's website has a lock on quality content, despite the numerous unintentional efforts to drag it down.

Thanks for starting this thread Tyee, and here's to the next ten years!

Sg