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Sorry about your loss Bob. God Speed.

Welcome to the site floorboy! I am sure you will find plenty of useful information on LOU that you can apply to your adventures on Mich & Superior. Enjoy your stay

Ryan - Welcome to the site! Glad to see you are posting now instead of just watching from the sidelines Sit back, relax and welcome to the community! Chad

Rick - The best that I can tell you from our stats is that the average visitor to LOU stays for 33 minutes PER VISIT! So I would have to guess these poll results so far seem to be pretty honest from what I have seen on the server side Hahaha - Chad

Just out of curiosity..... how much of your "paid working hours" are spent checking up on LOU?

Welcome to the site Colin! Enjoy your stay.

You think loosing your fish to a Kill Whale is painful.... imagine one jumping on you!

Thanks fellas! Only the LOU Pro members will get the "salmon" version of the header. The rest of the LOU members will get the "rainbow trout" version. See the about us page for an example or just wait a bit while I get the rest of the header stuff in place across the rest of the site. The KEY to any good website is easy navigation and that is basically what we were trying to accomplish here. Straight-forward simple nav... Thanks again for the kind words everyone! Cheers - Chad

Thanks Rick! The new header for basic members will be out soon.

All Pro members should see the new header now. If you don't simply hit refresh. Let me know if anyone is having issues or if things looks a little strange. I have done my best to test the new header across several different browsers and operating systems. Thanks! Chad

Hi LOU Members - This is simply an FYI as to what I have been working on lately: The problem: Site Navigation (unless your a Pro member) Description: There are several areas on the site that can be used for navigation. This includes the header, tabs at the top of the site, links in the top right corner of the site, more links down the left column of the site and finally links in the footer and within the forum itself. While this is usually not a problem, it can confuse new users to the board who simply want a straight-forward navigational schema in place. We want to move towards a more standard means of navigation - something much simpler like a text based (for quick load times) navigation menu across the top of the site in place of the 4 current HUGE tabs that take up too much real estate at the top. Professional members will get to see and test out the new header first and once all looks good we will go post it for the rest of the LOU masses. The header will not be much different from what you see right now, just a little bit quicker on the load time and easier to navigate. We are excited about it and we hope you will like it also.... I expect the new header to be ready within the new few days. Thanks! Chad

I just subscribed to ESOX angler magazine last week! Welcome to the site Bob - looking forward to your reports (especially on Chautauqua!) Chad

The fun is only just beginning - fall fishing, hunting and ICE FISHING are just around the corner now! Can't wait!

Welcome to the site Rick!

Welcome to the site Matt! Enjoy your stay.

Doing my best fellas - thanks again for the kind words and I hope you all enjoy the new feature

Very easy to do now that I have made several modifications to the board's core bbcode and added a YouTube quick button. Pretty sweet stuff! So go ahead and give it a try. How to do this: Just paste the YouTube Link Jerry & Larry from Rebel Charters taking out the Buffalo Sabres. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhHhXBSu6uI Hope you enjoy LOU's newest feature Chad

Welcome to the site Mark!

Welcome to the site Jeff! Sit back, relax and make yourself at home

Welcome to the site Tom! Very nice boat!

Tom, You can thank the moderators for keeping the site clean of the real losers. Despite all the security we have installed on the board (currently blocked over 10,000 hacking attempts), there are still people on the other side of the world who will go through the registration process manually and try to bring down the site or post irrelevant/inappropriate stuff that is quickly deleted by our first class moderation staff As far as spell check is concerned (rayyyy), my suggestion is to simply download the latest version of Firefox and use that as your browser. Not only will browse site more securely and 3x as fast but it also comes with a built in spell checker Here is the link if your interested: http://www.getfirefox.com Thanks again everyone for the continued support on the site. 2008 was our best year ever BY FAR and I only see that growing going forward. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. Kind regards - Chad

Welcome to the site Loyd - I'm sure you will find plenty of useful information here and the community itself is second to none when it comes to great lakes fishermen!

Thanks for the plug fellas I hope you find at least $20 dollars worth of value in all the Pro features. For those of you interested, here is a screen shot of the Pro accounts: Demo Page: http://www.lakeontariounited.com/LOU_Pro_Demo.php Sign up page: http://www.lakeontariounited.com/LOU_Pro.php Enjoy the weekend everyone! Chad

Welcome to the board Fisher King - sit back, relax and make yourself at home

Welcome to the site Rodney! We have an "Open Seats" section where you might be able to find a fishin' buddy for the day. Look for something in that forum area: http://www.lakeontariounited.com/fishin ... m.php?f=25 Cheers - Chad