15th Anniversary Of FAOL

September 1st 1997, Fly Anglers On-Line hit the World Wide Web Internet. This site was the creation of Deanna Travis who came up with a special site for everything pertaining to fly fishing.

I came across FAOL in October of 1997, and have been a loyal member of FAOL since then.

FAOL has survived where other fly fishing sites have appeared and later disappeared.

This is a site that is now read world-wide, and no money changes hands for anything written here...

Pardon me for be a day late and a dollar short, for posting this message on September 2nd!

Happy 15th Anniversary Deanna, your dream has made believers of all who are now part of this Fraternity of Fly Anglers on FAOL.

Steven H. McGarthwaite (aka: Parnelli) :D

Congratulations FAOL! Wonderful site where so many willingly share what they know.

Thank you,it has been a great learning experience for me

It has not only been a learning experience I now have friends scattered across the USA that I have not yet seen, but this is open to change. Thanks for the inspiritation and prespiration to make this great website happen and survive Deanna. I am sure JC is smiling upon you and Neil as you continue on. And thanks to Denny, Ron Tidd, and the other folks who have supported the organization and to REE wherever he is.

Steve, before FAOL I went to a chatroom in AOL, that's where I met Deanna & Jim. I bet we were there at least 2 years before FAOL was started!

Congrats, Deanna and Happy 15th to FAOL. I am like Uncle Jesse, I have made many new friends here, I may not get to meet them all but I sure will try to do so. Thanks again for all the fun and information, Take care, John.

Happy anniversary FAOL. Thank you Deanna for putting your passion out there for all to share. And thank you to the folks who come here and share your knowledge so free. I am a better fly angler for it.

Thanks Deanna for all the time and effort you and the rest of FAOL staff have put in making this a great family friendly site. Congratulations on 15 years

Eric

I agree 100% with all the above posts and I sincerely "thank you" Deanna for sharing and creating this wonderful site. Like others, I have made many friends from being a member on FAOL and I feel I will never live long enough to meet all of them face to face, but, they are true friends and I cherish their friendship. When we lose a member here to the "trout waters above" I feel a deep lost even though I have never met them face to face. One of those friends I never had the pleasure of meeting was Al Campbell and I will always regret not meeting him face to face, but, thanks to you, I still have his writings and knowledge through FAOL.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for a Web Site that I must log into each and everyday just to check on "my family on FAOL".

HAPPY 15th from my little part of Oregon. This is by far the best site I have ever been a part of. I have a bottle of Jack Daniels Single Barrel that has been sitting on the shelf unopened since year 2000. This is a good reason to crack it open for a celebration toast to FAOL and Deanna. And of course a toast to all the great folks here on FAOL.

Rocky

Happy Birthday FAOL.

As the others have said, thank you Deanna, and also thank you Denny, Rick, Chronicler, and all the rest of you who make FAOL what it is.

Thanks and regards,

Gandolf

I'm sorry I missed FAOL's first 5 years. I was a golfer in those days and had not yet come to the sport. I regret that even more.

Thanks to FAOL and all of its members! You have helped me immensely.

Brad

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FAOL!! I couldn't be happier with any sight. This is like family and Traci and I love it.

I joined late in 2003. This is the best site on the web for me. Thanks to al of those who administer and run the site.
I have learned much more on here than I might have contributed.

Rick

Happy Anniversary! I believe the longevity of this board and be linked to the quality of folks reppresented here and the mature administration of the board. Thank you Deanna and all those who have contributed to keep this a very pleasant place in cyber space to visit!

Mike (aa)

Congratulations FAOL. You have the best dot com going. Jim

Kudos and thanks to Deanna for what she and JC started and she continues to nurture with an "assist" from Neil.

John

Congratulations Deanna and many thanks to all those great people involved with FAOL! I found FAOL about 5 years ago when I decided to take up fly fishing and have learned much through the tutorials and simply by lurking and reading the great articles and threads. Maybe someday I'll know enough to contribute something useful myself....

Again, many thanks and ciongratulations to all involved!

Cliff

Thanks all - nice to be remembered. Since my fishing is pretty much non-existent I'm not spending much time writing about what I don't do. One of my hot buttons was so-called experts expounding on something they didn't do, and now I'm in that category. It may get better, but for now I'm getting my fishing fix by reading about yours! So if you did something over the summer let's hear about it - (I do hear a lot about Tom's various adventures) - but I would love some variety *S*
Hugs,
Deanna

Hi,

Thanks to all those, past and present, who had a part in getting this site started and keep it continuously active by: becoming 'participant' members; keeping it going through (a)posting activity, (b)personal involvement in writings, photography, becoming moderators, donating art and articles, investing as 'friends' and 'sponsors', and participating in 'Fish-Ins'. Some members are gone now and they are missed but their influence and contributions remain. Thanks FAOL.

Allan

Congratulations guys! Were many years of great moments, reading and watching about our beloved sport. Chears!!

Wahoooooo!!! One more year and we can drive!

Congratulations Dee! Here's to another 15 years.

TT

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Originally Posted by LadyFisher

Thanks all - nice to be remembered. Since my fishing is pretty much non-existent I'm not spending much time writing about what I don't do. One of my hot buttons was so-called experts expounding on something they didn't do, and now I'm in that category. It may get better, but for now I'm getting my fishing fix by reading about yours! So if you did something over the summer let's hear about it - (I do hear a lot about Tom's various adventures) - but I would love some variety *S*
Hugs,
Deanna

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Deanna,
Thanks for all that you have done for us via FAOL, the Fish-Ins, and everything else. As for articles, feel free to share your reminiscences with us. I?m sure that you have a number of stories that we would love to read. I am confident that you have lessons learned that would benefit many of us. (C?mon, tell us another story.)
:)

Warm regards from the peanut gallery,
Ed

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Very well done Deanna!!!

Deanna,

I belong to a couple other forums which are laid out suspiciously similar to this one. However, the contributors to this forum seem much more passionate and generally informed - it seems to me.

Congratulations for being so successful for such a long time!!!!
Byron

Some say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery - we surely have been flattered *S* In fact one of the imitators actually called me to tell me he was "going to steal everything he legally could" I won't mention any names but his first initial is M.
Trav and I really do appreciate all the nice comments from you all - the truth be told he actually does more on FAOL right now than I.
Thanks again everyone *S* and lots of HUGS!

I am a little late to the Party, but still wanted to offer my Congratulations. I hope all is well Deanna.

Jerry

I'd have missed out on a LOT of great fishing without this site. Had the mistaken idea flies were just for trouts until I read Al Campbell's articles. I don't always get to read everything here, but I get to as much as I can. Thanks for the great site! (I refer people all the time too.)

Congratulations! 15 years is impressive for any website.

Thanks to everyone I've met, interacted with, read, gotten tips from, learned from etc!
I'm late, but CONGRATULATIONS and I look forward to many, many more years!
Mike