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| IAJustin - 12/18/2024 6:26 AM
^ Happy 20th anniversary post. :)
Huh. What do you know? 20 years to the day. I had no idea! Well, happy anniversary to me, I guess!
That means I've been fishing for... Egad. 51 years?!?
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | ghoti - 12/18/2024 2:48 PM
7/3/2001 :-O
Pretty sure that's the day the site went live.
Now I'm getting kinda weepy.
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| Glad to know I'm not alone. As others have said, I have no interest in any other sort of social media. I appreciate the way this site is moderated, with different spaces for different conversations. I've been fortunate enough to meet some of the others on this site, and fish with a few. Got to enjoy a few of the fall outings, as well. It'll be 15 years on here for me, if it makes it to April. Will definitely miss it if and when it goes down, but at my age, I'm getting used to things I like, going away. |
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| Well this is certainly sad to see.
Like many of you I've been around for a while, learning lots along the way. This place, Bass Boat Central, and Archery Talk were pretty much my rotation as far as forums go for many many moons.
I think the sport has changed a lot over the years, we've seen the rise and fall of some super impressive fisheries like Mill Lacs and Vermillion. I think the early 2000's was a pretty special time to be a muskie fisherman and I'm glad I got involved in the sport then to see it. I'm not sure there are any lakes with the amount of big dumb fish like there were back then, (if you know any PM me.)
I appreciate the work that Steve and Andrew have done, this has been a fun hang out over the years and I've learned plenty.
Well if this is it, then keep your powder dry, your lines tight, and have a great Christmas.
Chasintails out. |
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| I started following the forum after getting back into musky fishing after buying property on a lake with musky. I have found it very helpful, with folks willing to share their knowledge and experience. Something I have learned as I have gotten older, I don't mourn the loss of something or someone as much as remember all the good times.
Hope this is not the end but if it is, I will be grateful for what I have gained. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | Get up in the morning sit up to the computer during that first cup of coffee find out what's new in the Muskie world, where to eat, bring back past adventures and history. Tell a story and more importantly hear a story. Nothing like time on the water or in the woods but it's fleeting, we cheek in till that next trip. What and where to buy this winter, when the ice goes off and on and on. To my follow posters who are like friends the last 5 years and a few left over from my from my Musky Hunter board days.
Like getting up and drinking coffee at very large table of friends or in a knotty pine room in the evening drinking beer. |
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Location: SW Ohio | This is one of the few sites I frequent. OGF is another. BBC is a distant third. Used to frequent ArcheryTalk but that died away after starting my current job and not shooting for the last 7 years (2 am wakeups doesn’t go well with late practices). A few gun sites but was getting too wound up with our political upheavals and doom/gloom predictions (it’s still there but not much you can do until something happens). Musky Hunter crapped the bed in both magazine and website offerings. Now, not much left in the terms of musky related sites. Hope this one sticks around. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | We will be covering the three major shows this season, and are at this point going to continue through the next year. |
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Location: oswego, il | Social Media is more about the individual poster while forums are more about the sum of its parts. It's still far more searchable with far more discussion. It's too bad they are going away one by one. Maybe install likes t a post to stroke the ego...
I show registering 7/2/2001 but Muskiefirst has been around longer I think it started in 1998 I believe we had to re-register in 2001. I can remember a pretty full chat room when the clock struck midnight for the year 2000.
Edited by ToddM 12/20/2024 8:13 PM
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Location: E. Tenn | Didn't find the forum until '13. There's a load of good info here if one's willing to search for it..
As for 1/1/2000, I was on he way home from a weeklong gig in New Bern NC, and going around Mt. Airy NC (aka Mayberry) at the stroke of midnight.. I might have seen a dozen vehicles gong the other way on I-77 & I-81, and didn't pass anyone, or get passed for 150 miles..
It was a bit wieird
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| ToddM - 12/20/2024 8:10 PM
Social Media is more about the individual poster while forums are more about the sum of its parts. It's still far more searchable with far more discussion. It's too bad they are going away one by one. Maybe install likes t a post to stroke the ego...
I show registering 7/2/2001 but Muskiefirst has been around longer I think it started in 1998 I believe we had to re-register in 2001. I can remember a pretty full chat room when the clock struck midnight for the year 2000.
One thing about the year 2000, a lot of folks made fun of the hype. What they didn't see was that a lot of folks had been working for years to make sure it was a non-event. The bank I worked for had a committee and work schedules that started 3 years before. I read that airlines started work even earlier. Some of those old COBOL cowboys made a lot of money during that time. They were the only ones that really knew the coding. |
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| I look at this site at least a few times during the week, rarely log on. Just looked back to see when I joined, '05. Been fishing all my life, born 1960, did not start muskie fishing until about '99. Caught a 50" and 52" before I joined in '05........haven't caught one over 50 since..... I must not be able to fully comprehend all the good info on here? I fully realize I may be the Howard Sprague of musky fishing......
Seriously, still love musky fishing, go to LOTW a couple weeks/year, got my son and son-in-law started in this crazy stuff and we use this site a lot.
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| North of 8 - 12/21/2024 9:40 AM
ToddM - 12/20/2024 8:10 PM
Social Media is more about the individual poster while forums are more about the sum of its parts. It's still far more searchable with far more discussion. It's too bad they are going away one by one. Maybe install likes t a post to stroke the ego...
I show registering 7/2/2001 but Muskiefirst has been around longer I think it started in 1998 I believe we had to re-register in 2001. I can remember a pretty full chat room when the clock struck midnight for the year 2000.
One thing about the year 2000, a lot of folks made fun of the hype. What they didn't see was that a lot of folks had been working for years to make sure it was a non-event. The bank I worked for had a committee and work schedules that started 3 years before. I read that airlines started work even earlier. Some of those old COBOL cowboys made a lot of money during that time. They were the only ones that really knew the coding.
COBOL bros can still make truckloads of cash given how few people know it and how much of the financial system depends on it. But then, you'd have to do COBOL all day.... |
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