How many years have you been visiting this site?

[RickBomba]

First post for me was in December of 2000, had to rejoin in April 2001, so lets say 9 years for me right now (I found the site when trying to think of how to occupy Jan-March 2001 off to re-coup from knee surgery).
I miss Patrick, too!
I believe there were about 60 or so members when I started.
I used to be deathly afraid of bassmaster, as he constantly harangued me for my use of herring for bait! We became buds later.
Billy Mitz and chris L. were my first friends on the site.
I helped plan the original TFCTFN (Year six or seven this year) with the rest of the kids.
It's been quite the ride!

[Mr. Sandman]

I stumbled upon this place I think in dec 2000 sometime after fishing yet another fall on BI I felt hollow in December and I was sniffing around the web looking for local SB addicts to commiserate with. I had moved to back up north to RI in 99 and was still doing a lot of surf fishing but most of the guys I knew were not fishing the beach much due to age, health and physical limitations and few had computers. I found sb.com and it seemed like this was the kind of local site I was seeking. It was a lot different then not a lot of members. There was a problem with my name at one point and I had to re-register and I think that is why it says 2001 now.

I have visited all the other sites but for some reason I prefer this one. Even when it gets a little hostile, I still prefer it over the others. Also I think JR should be commended for keeping it as non-commercial as he has. Further, I thought the first TFCTFN I went to when I met a lot of the people I have only posted messages to was really a lot of fun and something a little special.
This is a good group of people even if we all don't agree on everything... I hope it stays like this but it will probably change like everything else.

Happy Holidays SB.com'ers

[Islander77]

So veryvery long since 9-09