Team GFR

We should link this forum to the website. Also,

a link to a "Team Apparel" page,

a link to Flies we use (with photo and recipe(?)),

Team Approved "Meats" (dubbing blends), such as "Meat's meat" or "Mega's Greenmeat", or "Mega's Brownoliveyellowmeat".

a page called "Looking Back" or "Shoo!" or "Revival History" where we have a couple paragraphs recounting the highlights of each GFR. For example...

GFR I - 2000: the hippies with bongos
GFR II - 2001: Mega chases chickens along the banks of a swollen Little J, convicts with chainsaws come cut firewood for us.
GFR III - 2002: first year setting up big-blue, Chad tries to break my foot with a big piece of firewood, Casey comes to dinner.
GFR IV - 2003: Doug has a bout with pleurisy and leaves early "yo Shaun, are you awake?"
GFR V - 2004: The Year of the Bat. First week-long revival. First GFR Trophy awarded
GFR VI - 2005 - "You guys have any guns in the car" (that was actually spring training, but its a good story and shouldn't go unmentioned), dude in a wedding dress shops at Uni-mart in Belleville
GFR VII - 2006 - Arrived to find people camped in our campsite, Doug breaks his rod at the Kish (spring training).

Anyway you get the idea. We could also have a list of GFR trophy winners every year and the feats they accomplished to do it, but I think Chad might have drank the trophy.

We'll keep Team GFR website discussion to this thread.

Home page, Team bios, and attainment maps have been uploaded. I'm not to happy with the layout of the main page so I'll probably mess with that quite a bit.

Many pictures have been uploaded. Shoo!

I loves me some pictures...
The ones with green trees and stuff make me wanna grab my pole (I mean my fishin' pole) and head down to the crick.

Meat, the pictures are splendid. I'll have to scan some cool pics to you, maybe today, including salamanders from GFR 2001 and rattlesnakes from GFR 2002.

I have been given erroneous credit for a picture on "Streams"- Page 8. I've never been to Wiscoy Creek.

Also, I notice for some pictures, a few mind you, when you scroll over the thumbnail, the image at the center shows some ambiguous title (obvious done to hide the specific identity of certain places) such as "Southeast PA", yet if you hold the cursor over the thumbnail, it says something not so ambiguous, such as "Valley Creek" for example. There may be a minimal number of cases where this maybe should be looked into further for the sake of congruity.

I also was thinking, a big part of how we do is the way we endeavor to 'fish all over this bitch'. If we reveal all stream names and such, do you really think random fuckers would see that and go there? I tried and yet couldn't figure out a way to get google to find this web page.

But then again, if I ever saw a bunch of people fishing at the place where "skinheads fuck dogs" I would probably feel guilty about spreading the word, even though the PAFBC website tells you to go there for wild trout fun.

Hows that for stimulating conversation?

Yeah, there's still some fine-tuning to be done with the "mouseover" descriptions. On some browsers it says nothing and on some it displays the path to the file, revealing the filename of the picture, some of which are named, for example, "devilshole7.jpg". I'll work on that stuff.

I'm not really sure if random fuckers will try to infiltrate our trouty places - I'm most concerned with having a picture of a hefty brunster with the name of the creek where it was caught under it. That's like advertising. I'm less concerned with the plain stream pics and such. It's whatever, and Google still doesn't like our site so it's cool for now.

What's also cool is that I started the LVF site first, but it's less than half done. Team GFR stuff is more fun. I also found out that our original sucky website costs $50/month to "maintain" and was like $700 to setup. Shoo! Know anyone who needs one?

I'm confused. Do you mean that the Team GFR website costs $700?
Woweee!

In response to Dopkin's email sent this morning (assuming you saw it) perhaps it might be cool to have some means to post coming events, such as an "Event schedule" link on the home page, so people know when we do.

Also, if there is some way to make part of this forum private, say you need a password to access certain threads or whatever, we could post stream reports to each other without exposing info to the prodding eyes of fuckers.

Would one way be to start a seperate topic or forum and make all team members the moderator, and then lock that topic?

I agree about the advertising. Just to take it further, I think many lame-brains would go to the streams link, see a picture of "What-a-waste Run, Baiterhater County" then on the fish page see a picture of a 20" brook trout with the title "Baiterhater County" and grab up their spinnin' rod and salted minners and head out to What-a-waste Run.
So I say we keep doing how we do.

Nay, the original LVF website was $700 to setup and we're paying $50 a month for it on top of that and it's kinda crappy. I'm just saying that if I can make money making websites for people I'd probably have more free time to fish... The GFR site is taken care of. It was like $18/year to register the domain and the hosting is free so far.

I do agree that an event schedule is necessary and I'll get on that shit. I'll also see if I can make a topic private - I'm sure there's a way. Mega, you're already a mod by the way, although there's nothing really to moderate at this point...

It's snowing. A lot.

OK I am on.

Pics from the latest Team outing have been uploaded. One Fish, couple Streams, couple Peeps..

A couple of things...

Nice setup of the hidden and private shit. Lovely maps....

Lets set up another hidden and private called "Fishing Reports" so we can post messages about trips we take to everyone. I am likely going to Toms Creek tomorrow and would like to kick it off by posting about the results here, as well as for the upcoming outing on Saturday.

Also, I don't know about the other people but for me navigating the entire forum is becoming confusing and will likely become even more so as content is added. We maybe should organize better, with a seperate forums for "Website issues", "Random Banter", "Where we do", "Fishing Reports", "Urgent News", "Team Events" etc... within which each person can either reply to an existing topic or start a new one, or at least some method of better organizing these topics.

Also, I wonder if anyone besides me and meat are aware of the hidden and private sectors of the forum since you need to log in to see it is there. Perhaps a message visible to all telling them what to do to see it would be useful.

Almost all the stream gage reports at http://waterdata.usgs.gov/pa/nwis/rt
now are accompanied by a picture of the gage location. Probably not a big deal to the Team but I dig it.

Don't forget there's only six of us... I'll tidy things up a bit though.

I am able to set "permissions", such as access to private and hidden forums, for individual users. All Team members have been granted access to the Where We Do forum. For users without permission, it just doesn't show up. All you gots to do is log in.

Pics are cool.

I find the newly reorganized chat room menu configuration to be soothing, calming, and delicious while at the same time easy to navigate and ridiculously splendid. Thanks.

Tomorrow I will try to remember to bring you my collection of TOPO! Pennsylvania CDs so hopefully you can bootleg them and have them for your own use.

In the meantime, how did you generate topographic pictures for "Where we do" posts?

TopoZone, then Photoshop.

Right-o.
It sucks that one must publish pictures to the internet before they can be attached to messages here. With the TOPO! CDs, you can make cool maps that show profiles of hiking trails and you can add icons such as images of fish or guns or little stop signs.