An Addition to my Blogroll: Tackle.org

So yesterday I got a request to add a Wisconsin based website Tackle.org to my blogroll.  It's been a number of years since I last had a request to do it.  I haven't messed with my blogrolls at all so far this year.  I added it to the "Friends of Bass Pundit" roll.  I don't know if I'll touch the blogrolls beyond doing that.

Tackle.org looks like it's a site dedicated to giving information about tackle with the hope of getting you to buy it from Amazon through them.  Not that there is anything wrong with that.  If he's able to make some money that way, more power to him.  I wish you luck.

Update: I got a note from Tackle.org's owner about the site.

A Blog worth your time.

Cappy's Blog- Stories From An American Angler Is a blog I just discovered thanks to a Google Ad of all things. Cappy is a fisherman out of Illinois that is trying to start and organization called Cast Across America. Cappy is a good story teller and writer. It seems to be a multi-species affair, but Cappy is definitely a bass guy, so I consider this a bass fishing blog.

Another new blog, that I don't know if it will be worth your time or not because there is almost nothing there is:
David Pechacek's Fishing The biggest thing of note here is that it is yet another Minnesocold bass fishing blog.

Bass Pundit Blogging In 2007

I was curious to see what I blogged about in 2007. Here are the results:

Bass Fishing: 107 Posts
Fishing: 22 Posts
Football: 12 Posts
Holiday Greetings: 3 Posts
Weather: 2 Posts
Personal Life: 1 Posts
Total Posts 147

There were a lot of posts that combined more than one topic, but I only counted these under 1 Post; Usually these posts had something about bass fishing in them.

I don't feel like blogging...

I feel like fishing!

Rats

On tonight's Nightline they covered bloggers. This in and of itself is no biggie and wouldn't merit mention, but as a part of the story, they briefly mentioned a short list and screenshot of examples of blogs that included"...blogs about fishing..." It was up and gone so fast I didn't recognize if it is one on the blogroll, but it wasn't the BP that's for sure.

The fact is I am a "attension whore" and so am quite angry that they didn't say "...blogs about bass fishing" and then give screen shots to all B.P.B.F.E. blogs and all the other Blogroll-O-BassNblog blogs!

Sure, we Bassin/Fishin bloggers are a tiny fraction of the blogosphere population right now, but I bet anglers will eventually recognize the power of blogs, just as fishermen have found the medium of online message boards golden. There is a natural synergy between the pursuit of fish, the power of information flow/networking, and the need to tell one's fishing stories whether true or not.

Blogs will eventually catch on because they hold such great potential as a resource for fishermen.

I think what would really help that out is something somebody like BassFan or the BassFanArmy encouraging people to start a blog and then have a blogroll link under the interact tab. Maybe I should start writing an article on the topic and submit it to them and Co-Angler.com

Anyway, I need to head to BassFan and read up on the Ouachita in case I need to make a last second Fishing Challenge change, that is if it's not too late.

Update 3/3/25: I was wrong, blogging did not catch on in the fishing world. Vlogging on YouTube and TikTok did become a thing, as did groups on Facebook