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Let's go back in time before this current forum, we had the first forum. It was a continuous thread where you posted a question and mostly Bob would reply. I remember my first question, I had just finished my pond and were concern about all the bubbles. People not liking change just about revolted when the new site was introduced.
My question is who is left over from the old site?
Bob, Dave, ewest I think, who else

BTW it changed in 2002

I seem to remember that there was some kind of set-up before it became that continuous thread.

You go back before me then

Bill, I was there in 2001 or maybe before when it was just a continuing thread - ask Lusk a question and get answer.
I remember Dave Davidson and Bill Cody - maybe Cecil Baird?
George

I was thinking Bill Cody to, want to hear from Cecil

I was there.

I was not there on the old forum, but I think these guys were:

1) Dave Davidson
2) Cecil
3) George Glazener
4) Lusk (obviously)
5) Cody


That's just going from memory hearing those guys talk about the way it used to be.

Rookie!

Wish I would have been there.

My fault, Bing & Bill Duggan!

Bing should have pic's from esshup's gig back in July! I know he was doing some clicking, but never saw any. What's up with that?

I was here when the guy that sold the magazine to Bob was here. I apologize for not remembering his name. Not sure if I was here when Bob was just answering questions or replying? I do know my post numbers are higher than they actually say due to some kind of glitch where I had to re-register.

Dang Cecil, do you post a lot?

JKB: With reference to the Indiana meeting, A shame to admit, but I've never learned to post to this site. I spend a lot of time on many different sites and post pictures, etc. to several of them but this one just seems to be a PIA. I sent files with all of the pictures to a couple of people who were there with a discussion that they would go through the files and post some. I took over 100 pictures and tried to make sure I got a picture of each person there. Not naming names, but a couple of guys have the files and could load some pictures. Yup, I'm either lazy or stupid but haven't learned how to do it. With my current work schedule I'm not likely to get around to learning how to do it and posting for some time.

That's OK, Bing. We know you only like to post pics of you and Connie with the "Stars!"
















(Bing & Connie hobknob it with some pretty famous performers).

I got'em on a SD card.

MacDonald or McDonald?

One of those. Mark wasn't it?

Mark S. McDonald Sr.

Yes that's him.

There are not many of those first guys around. I have met a number of them but was not one.

Dudley was one of them as were DD1 , Bing , Bob , CB1 , George , Bill C and Duggan , Mark was on there as well (adm).
Also JP Gresson (IT guy) , Russ , Greg G , Kelly , Doc Runkle ,Texas715 , John Monroe ( recent canoe/barn post) and maybe Todd. Any mod can do a search list by date and look up all the 02 members - that is a good start. Most aren't around much any more.

When the new board started Bob went from posting almost daily to almost not posting. He was basically kicking the baby birds out of the nest. It took awhile for the new board to get going and the weekend Pond Bosses feeling comfortable answering questions.
Bob did warn us of his backing off and in the long run it was a wise decision.

Cecil, I recall the glitch was a cyber-attack that forced the ditching of the old forum format and prompted a new forum design (which forced many of us to re-register, resetting our post-counts at zero).
I still remember (in the original format) my introduction to Bill Cody - with a rather heated debate about aquatic herbicides and algaecides.
I also remember the original Pond Boss issues (I still have a few, circa 1992) which consisted of photo-copy paper, printed in black & white, and hand-stapled in the upper left corner of the sheets.
Wow! PB has sure come a long way since then.

Bill, thanks for renewing memories of how all this PB stuff got started!
Eric, thanks for the dates and events for this old fuzzy forgetful brain.

The registration dates of several of us are in error because we got kicked off the forum, either by a computer glitch or misbehavior – I don’t remember... - then they made us re-register with 1’s behind our names…

I was very fortunate in becoming an early acquaintance with three of the very best fisheries biologists in the country, in alphabetical order Lusk, Overton and Waldrop.
Todd Overton and Bob Lusk by email and Bob Waldrop in person, being a fisheries biologist and fish farmer in N.E. Texas.

Lusk bailed me out from a rookie mistake of stocking adult LMB on top of Waldrop’s famous Florida genetics CNBG and FH minnows.

I found Todd still at A&M by email and he promised to find me sub-adult HSB stockers when he moved to his recently acquired fish farm in Buffalo Texas.
Being his first customer has produced lasting friendship and on-going consulting services.

Bob Waldrop was my first personal contact being a close N.E. texas neighbor.
I remember “vetting” Lusk by asking Waldrop about reputation – his answer of cource that I could trust him.

It took me a long time to sign up on the first forum - I was too embarrassed to admit my mistakes so I just lurked until I found out that I was not the only dummy on the forum.

Fun days – thanks for the memories.
George Glazener

I remember Dave re-registering, never knew why. I did not have a problem