With my day off the water today ... I finshed a few site projects that I've been working on getting up over the past few weeks:

Two new videos - one of a wild summer run on the fly from a few years ago that I found browsing some of those old unlabeled tapes in the back of the closet, the second, an out-of-control minute-and-a-half clip of backbouncing silvers on flyrods on the Kasilof River from an upcoming episode of the Fisherman's Heaven TV show.

The summer of 2000 AK pictures are up in the photo gallery ... you can see a pic of Parker's dad with a nice 'un

Password protection for the Zipperlip Journals is fully in place, so for those invited to join in reading these, I can give you the password, under penalty of 40 lashes with the "Tonya Club" for unauthorized attempts at entry.

With the weather finally looking like I'll get some time off ... I'll be searching for some live chat software, a new tip (how to rewrap your oars), we should have a major BB upgrade available in the next few days, a return of frequent additions to the news, odds, and ends page, as well as the revision of the Fishing Tips and Tecniques section into a full-blown fishing resource center ... this last one isn't going to happen overnight, but I've got lots of ideas and will be trying to get the ball rolling there. Anything else you'd like to see, let me know and I'll see what I can do!

Would setting up some on site video of the Good Time Charlie's 'Soldotna Dancers' be out of the question?

Bob, I don't know if you like this one but it seems to work pretty well and the software is simple, for the users. http://www.anglingbc.com/discussion/index.html

Bob, how about a real time camera showing the river from your back yard?