Post by Rockyraccoon on Nov 18, 2013 21:05:23 GMT -5
Hello friends and fellow anglers.
I spent today guiding on the Clinch River. It was a trip with Blackberry Farm and some of their staff. Low and behold, Stretch is the lead chef there and is award winning in fact. We spoke for a few minutes in between trying to put our sports on fish. Anyway, it got me thinking.
So I took a look this evening and I be damned if we're not approaching a ten year anniversary here at the ETFFF. Next month will mark ten years since we started our little corner of the web. There's been a whole lot of conversation here about a whole bunch of fishing and some about everything else.
We've had a few heated arguments and somehow ended up with a couple of banned accounts. But for the most part our forum avoided any of the major fireworks that we've all seen on other boards.
There's been many times when I have been too busy to post, or even lurk much. There's also times when the traffic picks up. We used to get a lot of traffic when we held fly tying contest. We also see a lot of traffic when we try to plan events. I know that can be a huge headache for everybody since we live all over the south.
I suppose I'm getting a little long winded here and seem to be rambling. I should get to the point. I'd like to propose a meet and greet in the Knoxville area sometime over the next few weeks or in January. I remember once several years ago when we did this and it was a fun way to say hello. Call it a small anniversary party where we can have a few drinks and eat some grub.
Anybody up for something like this?
Thoughts?
I spent today guiding on the Clinch River. It was a trip with Blackberry Farm and some of their staff. Low and behold, Stretch is the lead chef there and is award winning in fact. We spoke for a few minutes in between trying to put our sports on fish. Anyway, it got me thinking.
So I took a look this evening and I be damned if we're not approaching a ten year anniversary here at the ETFFF. Next month will mark ten years since we started our little corner of the web. There's been a whole lot of conversation here about a whole bunch of fishing and some about everything else.
We've had a few heated arguments and somehow ended up with a couple of banned accounts. But for the most part our forum avoided any of the major fireworks that we've all seen on other boards.
There's been many times when I have been too busy to post, or even lurk much. There's also times when the traffic picks up. We used to get a lot of traffic when we held fly tying contest. We also see a lot of traffic when we try to plan events. I know that can be a huge headache for everybody since we live all over the south.
I suppose I'm getting a little long winded here and seem to be rambling. I should get to the point. I'd like to propose a meet and greet in the Knoxville area sometime over the next few weeks or in January. I remember once several years ago when we did this and it was a fun way to say hello. Call it a small anniversary party where we can have a few drinks and eat some grub.
Anybody up for something like this?
Thoughts?
The internet has changed drastically the last 10 years as has software and website technology. To be honest, if you told me 10 years ago this forum would still be around and have people come and go I would think your crazy. But here it is.... hanging on in the outermost reaches of cyberspace. 
