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Hey Mario! Welcome to LOU. Try posting your question in the "Open Lake" forum - I am sure you will get a better response there. Thanks and enjoy the site Kind regards, Chad

Welcome to the site Catch-A-Bunch. Maybe a "Lake Michigan United" site would be cool down the road - reguardless, I am sure there is plenty in common and lots of useful information you can find on LOU. Enjoy your stay! Chad

Great to hear things like this from fellow LOU members helping each other out. Too many times, this kind of thing goes over looked and un-noticed and it is very refreshing to hear this sort of sportsmanship coming from LOU members. Kudos to you Landshark

Welcome Adam. Nice small mouth too! Enjoy the site.

Welcome to site the Rick. Kick back, relax and stay a while

Hey LOU members! And so FINALLY..... April has arrived and with it a chance to get the boat wet. I know many LOU member have already been out on the water this year and from I have heard, had pretty good success! I have been busy as usual working LOU and getting ready for the spring time rush of traffic we usually see. We also welcome registered user 2000 and topic post 25,000! Both milestones for the site! Today I am happy to announce we have teamed up with the LOC derby and they now proudly display the LOU Member badge on their website. The spring LOC derby is just around the corner now and it should be fun as always so I highly encourage all LOU members to participate. It is cheap to get in and $12,500 more of a reason to get out there on the water. A link to the LOC website can be found at the bottom of our left hand column. My work on the LOU website in April includes a couple of site fixes/enhancements and one brand new service we are all very excited about. First the fixes: 1.) LOU Live Chat was fixed and is now working as expected. This was found to be a compatibility issue with our database after we upgraded the LOU core structure. 2.) Bot Detection was added at the bottom. Often times you would see 80 people online but that number included Search Engine Bots that were just crawling the site. Code was added to separate out Bots from real people to give you more accurate representation of how many "real" people were currently on the site. 3.) Added links to EVENTS CALENDAR section of the site help post events more easily. See "Add Event" and "How to Tutorial" links at both the top and bottom of main calendar screen. 4.) Added more helpful fishing resource links to the left column for LOU Professional Members. These links can only be seen by LOU Pro members so sign up if you haven't already (http://www.lakeontariounited.com/LOU_Pro.php) 5.) LOU Professional Chat (Shoutbox) increased number of retained messages from 25 to 50 so users can see MORE of what has been recently talked about. Again a feature only available to Pro Members. That is it for updates with respect to bug fixes and small enhancements. What we are really excited about this year is our new service geared at Charter Captains on Lake Ontario. Introducing "Captain's Corner - Affordable Websites for Charter Captains" http://www.LakeOntarioUnited.com/LOU_CaptainsCorner.php For the first time ever, charter captains can gain a professional presence on the web at an affordable price. To quote Entrepreneur Magazine: "Yes, if you have a business, you should have a website. Period. No question. Without a doubt. That said, it's not enough that you just have a website. You must have a professional looking site if you want to be taken seriously." - Entrepreneur Magazine And therein lies the problem. A professional looking website at an affordable price are two terms that don't go together and thus the reason many charter captains have already subscribed to the $500 or less crappy website option. Of course many of them also fail to realize that having a website like this is actually HURTING their business more than it is helping it. If you think about it these days, over 80% of the US Population turns to the Internet FIRST to research topics of interest. Calling someone to find out more information about their service is now the second step, assuming the initial impression of your business was favorable. You only get one chance to make a first impression and more than 80% of the time, that first impression is going to come from your website. Well that first impression does not need to be a bad one because of a limited budget for fisherman anymore. We invite you to check out our live demo of our 5 pages in one Professional design and picture your charter business here: http://demo.lakeontariounited.com Book just a single charter through your new website and you have MORE than paid for its yearly costs. We also invite other business (i.e., marinas, restaurants, tackle shops, etc) to use the Captain's Corner web design service as it is a 100% customizable solution that can easily be tailored to professional represent your business. Thanks LOU for a great kick start to the Spring! See you on the water. The Lake Ontario United (LOU) Team

That's one scary-looking fish, all right -- but it isn't a piranha, a typical specimen of which only grows to about 6 to 10 inches in length (the largest on record was under 24 inches). The toothy critter in the pictures is probably a goliath tiger fish (aka African tigerfish or giant tigerfish), or Hydrocynus goliath if you're an ichthyologist. The species is native to the Congo River Basin and Lake Tanganyika in central Africa, where it is prized as a game fish.

Had a chance to go and visit Jerry (Rebel Charters) this weekend and take a look at all the work he is doing on his boat. Pretty sweet stuff... I will let him give you the details if you are interested. Here are some pictures I took in the mean time:

Ok..... I think I got it! Give it a shot now fellas....

Hey guys - Your main LOU Username and passwords should work also for the LIVE Chat. Can anyone confirm that the image I posted below is the same "Password Required" image they are seeing? If it is anything different, could you send (or post) a screen shot of it? Thanks again for your help guys! I'm working on it! Chad

All Fixed guys. Minor database issue - sorry for the inconvenience but thanks for bringing it to my attention. Chat away

I'm looking into it fellas - thanks for the heads up! Chad

Wow! Great pics - thanks for sharing!

hahahahha - can't wait to show my family that picture! Thanks for sharing Tim and happy Easter to everyone!

Here ya go... I'll even save you the trip down to the bottom of the page: ucp.php?i=profile&mode=profile_info Happy easter and welcome to LOU!

Ray - We won't blow the servers yet, but I am pleased to announce Lake Ontario United link is now proudly displayed on the home page of the LOC derby website Check it out: http://www.LOC.org So if you think there is a lot of people online now..... wait till the Spring LOC starts up! Chad

Wow Dave - great looking pics! Thanks for sharing

Right at the bottom you will find a like for your profile (in the footer). Or just click here: http://www.lakeontariounited.com/fishin ... ditprofile Hope this helps Shade!

Welcome to the site Brian. We just added a new forum called "Trade a Trip" - check it out: http://www.lakeontariounited.com/fishin ... m.php?f=25 Basically, it is where guys on LOU get together and find other guys to go out fishing with. Helps both parties save on gas and its a good way to meet new people. Enjoy the site

Welcome to the site Kev! No matter what your fishing preference, you can find many like yourself here and learn a whole lot during your stay. Enjoy the site

Yankee - The public chat is pretty seasonal. It gets pretty fun in the summer. The Professional chat is pretty much year round. Guys are always talking on that about anything and everything. Thanks - Chad

You would be amazed how many LOU Thongs we sell in July Maybe I should get a "Girls of LOU" calendar going? haha.

Here is a re-cap for those of you who missed it: http://www.lakeontariounited.com/blog/a ... ntario.php I think Web did a nice job as well. Chad

Great summary of the State of the Lake meeting on our "Articles" section thanks to Tom B. Be sure to check it out: http://www.lakeontariounited.com/blog/a ... ntario.php

Welcome to the board sig and congrats on getting a new boat! It won't be long now till you get to test out the waters......