After reading Zander’s “Here’s to the next 10 years” I wanted to just offer a big thanks to Zander, Cal and Jip for all you have done for the fishing community, the fishing manufacturers and even myself.
Angler’s across the globe use Tackle Tour to familiarize themselves with the products of the sport. You have guided many of us into purchasing the right gear for the job and the right gear for each of us. You’ve done so without bias and with hard work, a ton of your personal time that could have been spent in other ways and at a great expense to yourselves financially. In a world of who pays us the most you have kept your integrity by keeping the reviews honest and truthful without hiding any flaws or promoting unnecessarily. Thank you for your integrity!
As an employee in the fishing tackle industry your website helps promote the sport and sales of products within the sport. Without your articles anglers are left to believe in the salesperson at the shop or the ads they see, read or hear. Tackle Tour in itself provides a free service to the entire industry boosting sales globally for manufacturers, distributors and tackle shops. Thank you for the business!
I have to admit that I haven’t been visiting Tackle Tour for 10 years but, I have been visiting the site often for almost 6 years. I’ve always loved to fish for fun, growing up fishing for whatever I could get to bite. The species ranged from trout to catfish and even some small sharks off the Port Hueneme pier while I was in college. I love to fish, but my idea of fishing gear came from K-Mart, Walmart or Big-5.
It was in 2003 that I got the real fishing bug and started tournament fishing for bass literally a week after I caught my first bass from the shore. I had a lot to learn and I wasn’t going to settle for a 3 to 5 year learning curve that I was told would be necessary to compete. Being the computer geek that I am, I turned to the internet for information on gear, techniques, patterns and more. For techniques and patterns and such I really didn’t find a ton of information on the web (back then) but, when it came to gear I found what I still consider to be the absolute best fishing related website on the internet bar none, Tackle Tour.
2010 is hours away and although I have changed jobs, locations and more one thing remains the same. I still read Tackle Tour several times a week and learn something on every visit.
Over the past few years I have gotten to know each of you and for those that don’t know you personally they should know that each of you is as awesome as Tackle Tour. Thanks for the hard work and it’s a pleasure to be able to call each of you my friend.
Keep up the incredible work and Here’s to another 10 great years!”
P.S. - Now lets go fishing – the pigs are eating swimmers at night!!
Well said Tom. I can’t add anymore to that but I would like to say Congrats to the TT staff for hanging in there and making the site what it is today. You know you’re a success when people copy what you do (which has recently been happening) but there’s ONLY ONE original and that original does the best by far.
Here’s to another successful “10″ and many more after that.