How old is the Sea Angling Ireland Website?

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How old is the Sea Angling Ireland Website?

#1 Post by pete »

Just read some of the old shore angling reports there in the new archive section and it brought a wee tear to my eye, is it nearly ten years since the forum was launched :shock: ??? Wondering too how many of the 2003 to 2005 vintage members are still using and posting? Should have a 'pensioner' status in addition to the 'seadog' one for those golden oldies :lol:
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#2 Post by Tanglerat »

You were here before me - you probably remember when everything around here was aaalllll green. :mrgreen:
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#3 Post by donal domeney »

Specimen Fish 2024: Shore Rockling (3) 36cm, 34cm, 31cm; Thick Lipped Mullet (2) 58cm, 57cm; Smooth Hound (1) 109cm; Sting Ray (1)125cm; Ballan Wrasse (1) 48cm ; Corkwing Wrasse (1) 24.8cm. Golden Grey Mullet (2) 43cm, 1.8lb; 40.6cm, 1.55lb;
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#4 Post by jd »

That's the earliest thread we still have - we lost some earlier threads for some reason.
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#5 Post by jd »

Also
Board started: 15 Jan 2003, 22:27

You can take a look at snapshots (pre forum in 2002)
http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http:/ ... reland.org

Also there are some discusssions on boards
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=545690
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#6 Post by sparkey+1 »

Fair play jd for being able to dig that info up well worth the read....
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#7 Post by Creep »

Damn it we should have had a party!!!!

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#8 Post by pete »

Hard to believe....that would have been right bang in the middle of the Celtic Tiger too. Seems like only yesterday.
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Indeed... does not seem that long ago... Just looking at the member list: Jan 29 2003 I signed up.
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#10 Post by Donagh »

Posts were culled automatically by the software at one stage if they were over a year old but this was fixed. I'm number 31 on the list of who joined but I think JD culled non-active members a few years back. Though that was back in the day when you could guest post so I didn't register straight away.

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We have to do something for the anniversary, right?? :?
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I just found this after not being on the forum for a nosey in quite a while, its funny reading back through the posts/reports, had a look in the old gallery for photos, and think one of my earliest was from june 2004, well before this new fangled light lure fishing fad came along check out the light lure gear from ye oldie days http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/gallery4.htm, none of this fancy stuff here :-)
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#13 Post by Davy Murdoch »

Ronald wrote: june 2004, well before this new fangled light lure fishing fad came along check out the light lure gear from ye oldie days http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/gallery4.htm, none of this fancy stuff here :-)
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#14 Post by pete »

Aye 5lb braid....never anything straighforward with you buckos :lol: I was using 50lb on Saturday off the rocks :oops:
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Ronald wrote: had a look in the old gallery for photos, and think one of my earliest was from june 2004, :-)
Thanks for that link ronald, i looked into it and found a picture of my young lad back then in august 2004 with a fine blonde :wink: http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/index.htm shortcut link of page 8 in old gallery dont seem to work for me :? i too was posting in here in the early days when you could post as a guest, used to be great crack been unknown :wink: :lol: :lol:
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#16 Post by nige »

just checked - i signed up in Oct 2004 and was lurking before that. That was a quick few years.
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8 Years 5 Days? :shock:
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#18 Post by MC »

nov 2006, doesnt time fly when your having fun :shock:

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