Happy new year to all visitors and members. Hope it turns into a happy and memorable one for all.

If you have sent me a mail or award request, please bear with me as due to a family bereavement I do not currently have the time to answer and respond to these till after next Monday.

I have added a new review to the site.

This time round it s a good club website from the UK.

The site is Lodge Park Angling and the review can be seen here

Joe Breunig of bunganutlake.org has kindly allowed me to reproduce this interesting article from his website. The original page can be seen here on his site.

Who says that sibling rivalries can t be beneficial?
Naples, ME, early 1970s:

I am the oldest of four sons; out of this brood, brother Dave is definitely the most gifted fisherman. Most times, we would be fishing side-by-side using identical equipment and bait. He would consistently charm the fish out the water, while I m praying for a nibble or two to justify my time and to develop an interest in this sport. Nothing seemed to work for me; using my peripheral vision, I would watch his every move. I d study the nuisances of his technique without being obvious. At that time, I could not understand what I was doing wrong.
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I have received more awards. Two more from the Pierrat, and one from Lodge Park Angling.

You can see the new awards on this page

A new first for Fishing Fan, I have received an award from Pierrats.com

You can view the award on this page

I have had the pleasure in visiting the following great sites, and they have all
received my Specimen Fishing Site Award.

Denby Miners Welfare A.C A neat club site from the northern part of England. Nicely laid out, well worth a visit.

FishingPosts.com A new and impressive fishing forum site, with Angling chat,general chat, Ireland links, web site links and more.

PhotonLures Extreme Glow in the Day & Dark Fishing Lures. For all your lure users.

Three Falls Farm South Africa s Premier Trout Fly Fishing Destination.Three Falls Farm is a premier 6* Fly Fishing Destination offering challenging and scenic waters. The farm is situated in the Mpumalanga highlands and is in close proximity to the world famous Kruger National Park. The farm caters for a minimum of 4 geusts and a maximum of 8.

Rocky Thomas Fishing Industries RTFI - Fishing fun, for the fisherman seeking a little humor. They do Web Design too at Rocky Thomas Fishing Industries!

Bunganutlake This is a community website for Bunganut Lake in Lyman, Maine. Contains lots of info on fishing and Maine boating law. Over 170 pages of content.

Lastly my Forums are back online after a couple of days absence, thanks to all those who pointed out the error to me.

A new user review has just been added to the site.

This is a review of ItWasThisBig.com by julz.

The review can be read here. Take a look at the review and the site and see if you agree with Julzs review.

FishingFan

My Top Fishing Site List is now officially reopen.

I have had two lists running now with a few members on them to test how they we working. All seems ok now, so feel free to add your site.

I now have two seperate lists, one for UK Fishing Sites, and one for the rest of the World Fishing Sites.

If you d like to sign up to them they can be reached via the following urls.

UK : http://www.fishing-fan.co.uk/uktopsites
World: http://www.fishing-fan.co.uk/worldtopsites

If you have a fishing site, I hope to see it on one of these lists soon.

There s some added features in my new listing, firstly the sites can be viewed by category after altering the drop down list, and also you can view by different site ranking methods. The default page shows all the sites, and ranks by unique visitor.

Today Fishing-Fan broke the 100,000 page views mark!

Many thanks to all the visitors since May last year.

I will be adding some more awards over the next day or so, having been busy recently redoing the sites server. Someone posted a news article on Thursday 27th, just as I was deleting the site, so unfortunately I ve lost that submission. If that was you please repost it.

FishingFan

I ve added a total of 6 more websites to our links page today.

A wide variety of types, including Website Design, Tackle Shops, Lakes and French fishing. Click the Web Links tab on the menu and view the sections marked with the New Tab to see them.

This brings the total number of links in the database to 81!

I ve added some new links to the fishing-fan database, including a new site which allows you to log your catchs online. It s aimed at mainly at Uk Sea Anglers.

The site has a great name ItWasThisBig.com

Another neat new site it from Alaska all about the outdoor life in this state from across the pond AlaskanOutdoorPages.com

Both worth a visit.