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Originally Posted by Jimmyz123
The reason I am posting this is I have read a few threads that last few weeks where a question is asked, and then an answer of, "Use the Search function to find your answer."
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It's kind of funny but basically you can figure that any question you could ask has been asked before, asked over and over by almost every new guy that's posted online for years now, and then realize that it's been answered 100s and 100s of times.
This is also not the only website like this around, and some of us have been posting this stuff for over a decade now.
We've answered those same questions over and over again on various sites like Allcoast Bloodydecks etc...
After a while you're like why do I even bother. For a while I moderated the largest technical how to fishing boating board on the web. Then I got tired of the same questions and inevitable arguments, quit moderating, and used to just searched out and repost my old posts any time anyone asked anything important. Eventually I got tired of that, as it took a lot of time and now most of those old posts have largely been lost from their various archives over time.
Naturally the new guys have no idea that those questions were ever asked, or that anyone including myself ever answered them, or that those answers ever existed at all, and now they couldn't find them if they had to.
I mean personally I like to help people, and post what I can but as I told a buddy the other day, with some things it's a bottomless pit. Half the time people don't get it or don't listen, and then you always have those jerk offs that get bent out of shape because you don't answer the question like they want you to, or fit their misconception of the status quo..
The thing that get's me are guys who want to pretend or truly believe that they have suddenly invented something new that actually has been around for decades.
Recently I saw a "New" Halibut rig that I have been using since the early 90s, and actually posted online back in something like 1998. Also this month I also saw a post where a guy was trap rigging plastics in a way that I first posted about online in maybe 2000. To be fair to these new "experts" the ideas are probably new, but that doesn't mean the concepts are new or that they have not been posted online before.
It's like spectra and small lever drags. When I first started fishing with Izor Spectra, on a TLD5 with a short fluoro topshot for tuna...
...and posted about it people thought I was insane. Back thn it only came in white and I used to dye it blue with spraypaint and acetone...LOL
Now a decade later with reels like Avet SXs and Saltists small lever drags spectra and topshots is considered a standard way to fish, but 90% of those that fish that way have no idea it's not a new thing or that others posted about how to do it ten years ago. They just know what they have read or seen recently.
So when I see a post like: "Will a lever drag Avet SX work with fifty pound spectra, and a thirty topshot of fluorocarbon?" I have to grin and rather then say: "Go back and look at this post from 2001", or discuss the technical merits as I have done countless times in the past as the idea was, argued, fought over, heatedly debated, and then eventually gained ground in popularity...., I just simply say: "Yeah it will work just fine.."
Such is the nature of the web.
Jim