salvelinusfontinalis
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As they say it can be.
This site is celebrating 25 years and it should because it is an amazing place really. Not only standing the test of time but also the test of being useful and withstanding multiple user changes.
Over the years, Ive run into multiple anglers streamside and through our conversation i will bring this place up and ask if they belong. Surprisingly many did not and it was always a shock to me.
I have always touted to them the vast amount of good people on this board and how the search bar is an seemingly limitless gateway to PA flyfishing knowledge. I dont know if any of them have ever joined but that would be to their loss.
I found this site, i believe, in the summer of 1998. Being what i call an "alterative redneck" in my youth, I certainly didnt fit in here though, not for lack of trying unfortunately but that is ok. People like me rarely fit in anywhere and I am very comfortable with that. Thought i knew it all as many younger people do but one thing this site will show you is how little you do. (Not a bad thing)
Fly fishing since i was 10 (now turning 43) i can attribute most of everything i learned to the people right here on this site. If fact, sometimes i feel like the only thing i learned from 1978 to 1998 was how to cast :lol: and i was crappy at that too.
Life changes as does the world. For good and bad, it is just they way it is. During my stay here i went through deaths, being single, getting married, addiction, arrest, having children who saved my life , a divorce, more deaths, finding the love of my life, finding Jesus again and now living on my terms and God's. Its been a heck of a ride and frankly i wouldnt have it any other way. There probably was no other way for me.
During this time my wife and i have almost fully unplugged. Our kids are living a life style closer to what i lived in the Appalachian woods of PA in the 80's. The world sure has changed in my brief time here. If i had my way we would go full Amish :lol: being hacked to having your bank account hacked helps when deciding too :roll:
My birthday is soon and one of my goals was to go back to how it was before all of this stuff. So here we are.
This is not one of those, " oh im leaving beg me to stay posts." This is one of those , " damn im going to miss this place posts." Ive made enemies here and some friends that are very special to me. Again all part of the way it is and i wouldnt change it for anything. Some that changed my life forever like Sasquatch. I dont know where i would be without your guidance sometimes. You help lead me back to the word and i forever grateful.
So the next time someone tells you its just fishing, remember it is way more. Way more. I came here for just fishing.
Instead i found your lives catalogued in a search bar now mixed in with mine and it changed me.
Ill miss you all and I mean that.
Regards,
[d]Tim Murphy[/d]
"Someone" ;-)
This site is celebrating 25 years and it should because it is an amazing place really. Not only standing the test of time but also the test of being useful and withstanding multiple user changes.
Over the years, Ive run into multiple anglers streamside and through our conversation i will bring this place up and ask if they belong. Surprisingly many did not and it was always a shock to me.
I have always touted to them the vast amount of good people on this board and how the search bar is an seemingly limitless gateway to PA flyfishing knowledge. I dont know if any of them have ever joined but that would be to their loss.
I found this site, i believe, in the summer of 1998. Being what i call an "alterative redneck" in my youth, I certainly didnt fit in here though, not for lack of trying unfortunately but that is ok. People like me rarely fit in anywhere and I am very comfortable with that. Thought i knew it all as many younger people do but one thing this site will show you is how little you do. (Not a bad thing)
Fly fishing since i was 10 (now turning 43) i can attribute most of everything i learned to the people right here on this site. If fact, sometimes i feel like the only thing i learned from 1978 to 1998 was how to cast :lol: and i was crappy at that too.
Life changes as does the world. For good and bad, it is just they way it is. During my stay here i went through deaths, being single, getting married, addiction, arrest, having children who saved my life , a divorce, more deaths, finding the love of my life, finding Jesus again and now living on my terms and God's. Its been a heck of a ride and frankly i wouldnt have it any other way. There probably was no other way for me.
During this time my wife and i have almost fully unplugged. Our kids are living a life style closer to what i lived in the Appalachian woods of PA in the 80's. The world sure has changed in my brief time here. If i had my way we would go full Amish :lol: being hacked to having your bank account hacked helps when deciding too :roll:
My birthday is soon and one of my goals was to go back to how it was before all of this stuff. So here we are.
This is not one of those, " oh im leaving beg me to stay posts." This is one of those , " damn im going to miss this place posts." Ive made enemies here and some friends that are very special to me. Again all part of the way it is and i wouldnt change it for anything. Some that changed my life forever like Sasquatch. I dont know where i would be without your guidance sometimes. You help lead me back to the word and i forever grateful.
So the next time someone tells you its just fishing, remember it is way more. Way more. I came here for just fishing.
Instead i found your lives catalogued in a search bar now mixed in with mine and it changed me.
Ill miss you all and I mean that.
Regards,
[d]Tim Murphy[/d]
"Someone" ;-)
