I had this idea, that it would be nice to see where all the Pond Boss Forum Members are throughout the country and the world!

So I built a Frappr Map.

You don't even have to sign up with the site to put your location down, but you can always sign up if you choose. Frappr Pond Boss Forum Map

Anyways, run with as you choose. I think it will be pretty cool to look at the map and see where members are, where they are concentrated and what areas are lacking PB Forum members. Enjoy!

I'm in (or, rather, on).

O K,I figured it out,Im in.

This is my first post on this GREAT forum!! I made my way onto the map. I think this is a really good idea.

I'm "on" too. Great Idea!!

OK, now THIS IS COOL!!!
Everyone needs to jump into this.

Dragon,welcome to the forum,hope to hear more from you.

I'm on there.

I put myself on there but I entered my whole address (thought you had to). Not sure I want that info out here (it's not you guys I'm worried about). Anyway to change that to just the zip code?

Good question, Rob. I'd like to change mine just to put a closer (smaller) town, but I can't figure out how to do it. Hopefully someone more technologically-savvy can show us how.

I'm on and included a pic of my pond (before I started clearing/thinning the trees on the banks.

I'm on the map, and so is my second pond, it's that big body of water North of my place.

Jersey, Georgia was on the map. I'm sure your one-horse town will be too.

i think i did it....

nice pic sue!!

Done - thanks and great idea.

Thanks Dave! That's a black jaguar I saw in Mexico. He's quite handsome!
This map idea is great! I hope everyone participates.

ok, I added myself on there, accidently deleted someone else though.

Pretty cool Idea, I'm on, and thanx CJ, I too have been wanting to do this same thing, just not as computer savvy as 99% of everybody else.

I'm on!

Proud to be on there for big town of Ball Ground, GA

Has anybody given any thoughts that JHAP could use this map in conjuction with the GSA Deathstar locating.....never mind.

Why give the guy ideas? I mean really.....

I'm not on any more! hehe

Come on guys, it's been how many years now? Ain't it time we tell JHAP the truth?

All the more reason I used my Ex-Wife's zip code.

Ahh, those were the days. What a great gang - Brett Skiwalker, Han Sunilo, Obi-wan Condello, R2DD1, and CPTheo.

Glad to see you all enjoyed my idea! It is pretty cool to look at the map and start to see where we all live and play. Any chance a moderator can pin this somewhere so it doesn't get lost so as new member join they can add themselves as well?

...don't forget Otto the hutt and Luskbacca

I'm crushed. How could you forget Yolkda?

No way I'm falling for this one from a cop.

Will do in a day or so. If we put it there now no one else can post on the thred.

OK, sounds good!

Dang, DIED that is one mean looking GSF you put on the map!

I'm on in Athens, Georgia. Thanks for doing this!

Nice to see 2 other North Georgia ponds on here. They aren't really as close to me as they might appear on the map but, at least we have our presence noted.

Go Dawgs! and, go fish!

I'm on now, pretty neat to see the concentrations of people on here so far. Looking forward to seeing how it fills up!

Map is looking good guys! Hopefully it will continue to fill over the next week or two as less regular visitors see it and join in...

I didn't know we had such a following in Yemen.

I noticed that too Chris. It's a bit disconcerting.

With three countries represented, where is our good friend Rad?

Hopefully the Yemen posters are GIs using their alias.
Otherwise, show us your pond.

Luckily, we don't have addresses in my part of West Virginia -- we just have inexact nearby locations, like "a ways on down yonder, just past where Wilbur's barn used to be."

Besides, JHAP's aim is awful. At the last convention, George wouldn't even let him practice with a flyrod.

Catmandoo,
Our mailman uses that system, I am the foreigner who lives on the new road, even though the road is 4 years old and there are two newer roads. The other two don't have foreigners or I would probably get their mail as well as any other foreigner's mail.

My official address is 39/9 Saphli Road, Thung Wua Laen, Saphli, Pathiu, Chumpon, Thailand.

Thanks CR, good idea.

Has anyone else noticed,JHAP is avoiding this thread? He's up to something.Im relocating into my camper at a remote location,until I find out where he,and the deathstar are located.Not that I've done anything wrong,mind you.Im not even worried.I have back-up tinfoil hats.And antiGPS radar blocking capabilities.And a 55 gal drum of wupa##.And a drum of anti-wupa##.And a flyrod.

Problem is, he can't put the Deathstar on the map since it's in orbit.

OH SNAP!

That Sir is a complete and utter (udder?) fabrication! George did in fact let me practice with a flyrod and I only hit him three times with it. Of course then he "encouraged" Brandon to give me lessons in the hallway but I'm quite sure that had nothing to do with my aim. Oh and by the way I did pay the bill for the hallway chandelier that mysteriously got tangled in my line and subsequently pulled from the ceiling.

I have not added myself to the map for three reasons:

1. The exact location GSA world headquarters must be kept secret. We have an extensive weapons cache, several emergency cases of Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum, the complete Star Trek and Twilight Zone DVD collector's edition sets, and the beginnings of a well stocked wine cellar. It is imperative that none of this fall into enemy hands.

2. I am very near DIED. If you find him then you will know my general vicinity, unless of course I am piloting the Death Star or one of our Stealth Fighters.

3. We are absentee property owners and our pond is quite literally on the map. If I were post even so much as my zip code it would not take that long for someone to determine our exact location. It's not that I worry so much about the general public getting to our pond. No, it's you freaks. If you found out where our pond was then Condello would show up and completely fish out our pond in 17 minutes flat. Dwight would sneak over and build something fabulous and complicated and then not tell me what it was used for. TomG would get all "beered up" and blow the place up. Yolk and Rainman would do something horrible to my GSF. Cecil would fill it with Perch. And Theo, I shiver to think what Theo might do.

I will not be a lamb led to slaughter.

I do have a lamb costume but it is for Halloween and other "special" occasions.

Don't act all innocent. We heard what you did to those poor Gambusia.

I'm not usually this slow...but I can't figure for the life of me how to "add" anything...any help?

Sometimes it does not load up fully Matt, so close the webpage and try to reopen it.

When it opens fully, it should be fairly evident as to what to do.

Yes and I have the emotional scars to prove it. To this day I can hardly look a Gam in the eye. They always seem to have a disapproving, blink-less, "I know who you are and saw what you did" stare. I find it rather unnerving.

Last Summer I found I could easily catch lots of Gambusia by placing a net at the east end of a school and then unveiling a picture of JHAP at the west end.

OH SNAP!

Or to put it in Sunil's terms...

Dude, that was harsh.

brutal

JHAP said ;
"We are absentee property owners and our pond is quite literally on the map. If I were post even so much as my zip code it would not take that long for someone to determine our exact location."

Just do what I did and place on your home (SD) not the pond.

Theo, I did the same thing, but with bullheads!

They were scared.

Theo & Sunil. I did the same thing at a Hooters in Atlanta,
five minutes later, you guessed it, sign went up for waitresses wanted.....

Haaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!

Remember, you don't have to put down your complete address to add yourself to the map. A simple City and State will work. Now if you want to PM me your exact address and the hours you are not around, along with what size fish you have in your pond I'd gladly take it... If anyone has put more information than they wish to share, let me know as others have and I will take care of it for you.

~Travis

Also, if you cannot figure out how to post, just drop me a PM and I will help you out.

cj, did you help jhap out?

OMG i havent laughed so hard all week......

Hey JHAP, I figured you had money, but I didn't think you could buy property in the Shasta National forest.
Also do you always wear a fish instead of pants!

I believe JHAP is good to go... He hasn't sent me a PM and I checked the map and only his City and State are on there. The map is looking good! I didn't realize how many forum members were in the middle east. I am surprised we have none in Europe? Good to see some of our northern neighbors are on here! I hope everyone eventually sees this thread and posts on the map...

Reminds me of Brick Tamland's quote in Anchorman:

"Right now it is seventy-eight degrees in our fair city, and compare that to sixty-eight degrees in the Upper Northwest, and forty-eight degrees in the Middle East."

If you mean THAT middle east, then yes, we have a lot of forum members there. Theo Gallus, Ryan Freeze, and Bill Cody are all from the Middle East. I'm not sure why there are so many folks from Yemen on the map.

Oh, I was referring to those folks from Yemen. I can't say I have ever seen one post on here. Perhaps BG and LMB are a big thing over there... Maybe one will chime in and let us know!

man he has takin you guys hook line and sinker...........look at the city name.........i'm still LOL!!

Weed, CA? Never been to Cali, but I'm guessing JHAP doesn't live in WEED... Do they grow lots of it in the Shasta National Forest? HAHA

Maybe those Yeman guys are aquaculture guys,

"Two species of shrimp and one finfish are cultured by the ARC, namely the Indian white shrimp (Penaeus indicus ) and the green tiger shrimp (Penaeus semisulcatus ) as well as the goldlined seabream (Rhabdosargus sarba )."

I say this only because I have been to Weed.

All I needed was one more reason to hate WIll Ferrell.

I'm in. I have been so busy with work, I almost missed out!

Ok, Ok, you caught me. I live in Weed, California. I have changed my profile now since I have been placed on the map for all to see (almost quite literally based upon that photo). Don't make fun of my home town. No Weed was not named for marijuana, get your minds out of the pungent clouds. Our beautiful town was named after our founder Abner Weed who discovered that the area's strong winds and cool breezes were useful in drying out his wet lumber.



Oh and as for that photo that's on the map, that was a wonderful pet that I had for years. I caught him in Lake Shasta one day while using a cast net and transferred him to my pond. You see Jeremiah was a bullfrog pollywog and he must have been exposed to radiation while an egg and therefore grew to enormous proportions. All was good with Jeremiah until he turned into a frog. Jeremiah got loose one day and ate one of my neighbors Great Danes. The town folk got real angry and claimed he was dangerous and they wanted to put him down. There was no way I was going to let anyone kill Jeremiah so I loaded him onto a one ton flat bed truck and took him back to Lake Shasta and turned him loose. Given the fact that occasionally a tourist or two disappears at Shasta, I believe that Jeremiah is still there alive and well. Yes, folks, Jeremiah was a bull frog, he was a good friend of mine, I never understood a single word he said but I helped him drink his wine, He always had some mighty fine wine.

And that's all I have to say about that.

We except for the fact that you people are lucky that I'm not "King of the World."

Real lucky.

Ya know, a frog can tell you when it's going to rain.

All the frogs around here left last summer.

I saw one just a few weeks ago.
O'course he was heading north at the time.....

OK, I stand corrected... JHAP lives in Weed, CA. Looks like a pretty area to boot!

Still no word from our fellows from Yemen... Perhaps Rad has it right, I thought Yemen was a desert though?

It ain't "the land of a thousand lakes".

I'm on.

Our map is looking great guys! If you haven't added yourself, please do! Thanks for playing into my idea... I hope everyone has enjoyed this.

Still some on here who haven't added themselves to the map yet... If you haven't checked the map lately, take a look. It's looks pretty cool!

I'm disturbed that our recent efforts to boost readership in Uzbekistan have yielded no tangible results.

True, but I did speak to a guy from Odessa the other day that subscribed.

I'm on the map now. It was painless! Some of you need to add some pics. Come on now all you have to do it get them off your browser!

We are lucky! I just looked at the photo. That is disgusting!

I don't want to look too close, but from the waist down, you don't appear to be wearing anything but Jeramiah and your sandals!!!

JHAP and Jeremiah

Yeah where are the mods now? Oh yeah that's right I didn't post it so it stays.

Don't be ridiculous. I am also wearing a Brazillian cut neoprene cod piece.

What else would you wear when you go noodling for mutant pollywogs?

Noodling for mutant pollywogs... Now that is a new hobby!

In!

hilarious. I feel a little detached from the rest of you.

Watching the map grow has been fun. I really want to thank our friend CopperNose (CJBS) for starting it.

I found it surprising to see where the majority of us are located. I stuck my cursor in what I figured was near the middle of the most heavily represented area. Now it really seems like Lusk did a great job of choosing Missouri for our convention. It is still a 14 hour drive . . ., but what a sacrifice in the name of aquaculture.

Now all we need is Mr. Lusk himself to join the map! Hopefully, more of the not so regular visitors will check in and newbies who have just found the site will also mark their spot on the map...

Does anyone know how to make the map full screen?

Come on, TOM G. You've shown that you know how to make text bigger and in different colors, and now you can't figure out how to make the map full-screen?

I am not aware of a way to make the map full screen sized...

I was just looking at the Pond Boss Forum Map. We're up to 126 marks on the map! Not too shabby...

So far 136 people have placed themselves on the map and 871 people have taken a look at the map! Not bad for a forum like ours... It really is neat to see where we all live! Eric or another moderator, perhaps you can now sticky it to the top so as new members join in or old member come back, they too can add themselves to the map and enjoy the fun.

No Alabama or Arkansas???

Hey you guys from Alabama and Arkansas need to go to the first page and join in !!

This is shaping up like a nice road map for one of us to hit every pond from the forum and journal their experiences on the watershed and meeting said Meister. I would buy that book in a heartbeat were it published.

JHAP - You don't have any work to do until next April, right? Would be a righteous journey - and you could seed every pond with GSH fry ala Johnny Appleseed so we can all become enlightened to the ways of the GREEN side.

Alright, Im on it, I was surprised to see 3 other loyal Iowegians, it was a proud moment.
JHAP- Is it possible to noodle for the elusive mutant GSF of the west? Because that would be something. Not that Im not really impressed with Jeramiah and other mutant pollywogs of the Shasta.

Well, I just checked the Pond Boss Forum Map and we are up to 152 members who have posted on the map!

If you are new to the forum or just haven't haven't posted yet, take a second and mark your spot. No need to mark your exact address, just a city or zip code will do. Quite a good scattering all over the county... Definitely some very well represented areas though!

Im gonna print put the map.Everyone please post when you go to work so I can start mapping out my fishing calender.

I no longer go to work but you can still come fish.

I didn't count, but I bet we got at least 1 representative in 20 plus states now...

Someone get a map going...I can take a few weeks off and hit the road. I need a videographer to document my obscene catches and narrow escapes from the law along the way.

If your smart,you'll be more worried about pondmiesters with shotguns.

I want to fish WITH the meisters...not TRESPASS. Jeesh! Maybe some cocktails and a good meal...spread the cheer type thing.

I'll go with you TJ... You can show me how it's done!

Catching fish, drinking cocktails, or skirting Johnny Law??? All the above?

All of the above... I know a thing or two about skirting Johnny Law though.

Count me in,I've got a couple of BIG icechest.

That makes three for the Pond Boss road tour, now we just need to work on getting the invites so we don't get shot while fishing...

To all my forum brethren - permanent invite to my place - I'd be honored to host any of you for some fishing, cocktails, then morels, cocktails, tenderloin on the Big Green Egg over hickory and sugar maple smoke and jumbo scallops, then a few more cocktails and flash powder delights to celebrate the summer....boom!

[I think Condello is in too...I know a low spot in his fence!]

Mmmmm... Jumbo scallops! I'm headed to my dad's house on the Bay this morning. I plan on eating a lot of tasty blue crabs today!

great idea i'm on