Going forward in 2017 at OSF - 1

[Giuga10]

I'm still here, just don't have much to contribute anymore. I almost exclusively fish for bass and haven't had much to say anymore, if I catch a question on the topic I may engage but it doesn't happen often here so I just lurk.

As far as this thread goes, I wholeheartedly agree with OT. With anglers such as Muskie and Zippy it makes this competition quite daunting. I respect your guys niche, and agree that anglers should sometimes step out of their comfort and explore, but the micro category is an extreme. Some people just don't have interest in it, it takes a certain type of person to go out of their way in search of a darter or a stickleback.

If we want to see more participation in these competitions we have to make it more inclusive to the average angler. And same goes for this forum as well, I've watched it for the past 4 years or so and it is stagnating, it is turning into that of a roughfishers forum. Which don't get me wrong, roughfishing is not a bad thing, but for your average angler, its is intimidating to join a forum that seems to be a simple community about shore anglers getting together and find most of the topics entailing species and techniques one has never heard of before. It's the reason I don't really participate anymore, the forum has gotten repetitive, there is no diversity anymore.

If I can offer my two cents of something that should be changed or added. I believe that a sub category or sub forum (whatever it's called) should be added for the topic of roughfishing. This would help open up the other subforums for more standard questions and leave everything regarding the roughfishing topic to an area where it can all be found.

Anyways,
Cheers.