Heck it puts a smile on my face! 
For those of you that didn’t make it to the Get Together last summmer. Redneck’s family surprised him with a brand spanking new kicker motor for his boat.
How can you NOT have a smile on your face with a family like that! 
Ryan Hale directed me here, great bunch of guys ( even that Brian guy) So untill closing time and I’m botted out the door I’ll be lurking around.
I heard about a guy wearing a pink dress 
, I just had to see that.
OR
I was looking for the lyrics to the song: O Lutefisk, O Lutefisk
I was tired of just 
the song.
Alvin and slider….could you two explain your handles. Along with where you heard out this site?
I found the site searching Google about the time FTR and FTL were changing over to IDA. I spent a lot of time lurking on this site and other MN sites. Then I went to the smallie GTG on the pond, met some really nice people. After that I knew that I wanted to stop lurking and be part of the family.
As for the name: I am a huge fan of Charlie Brewers Sliders (paddletails). Any one that has fished with me knows that I always have one tied on.
I now have to see how the BfishN paddletail compare.
Ron
I found IDA on the side of an old Suburban. Three years ago, my Dad and I were out fall fishing on Mille Lacs. We came off the water at 2 am and started packing up the boat. Some guy comes up to us and starts showing us pictures of giant walleyes on his digital camera. He was a nice guy and he even told us how he caught them. As the Suburban with Crestliner in tow pulled away, I read the FTR sticker on the side. I looked it up when I got home and I have been hooked ever since.
I came to find out later the person I met was the founder himself. 
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I came to find out later the person I met was the founder himself.
This same guy threw me a email when I was a member of a competitor’s site and said……”Come play over here…its better here!”
Not wanting to play for both teams 
I did a little digging and said….You bet! Been here since the very begining and proud of it!
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Its about time you get an avatar. Too bad it aint as pretty as mine
Yeah Mike, you got a dandy there. 
I found this site searching google before fishing Lake Okoboji. Glad I did.
I 
found IDa then, as I do now, gratifying, very gratifying!
I found it searching for info on the mississippi river and it was the only good info I found. I haven’t looked further since. 
I was told if I didn’t come over here and play nice he would burn my house down
i picked “other” because i can’t remember. i have been around since it was fishtheriver.com and i fished pool 2 in the winter months. it must have been 1999 or so….tom f
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I was told if I didn’t come over here and play nice he would burn my house down
And since your house is now made out of plastics…I’m guessing that would be one heck of a fire!
Somehow I missed this topic last Fall.
It’s really has been a very long time since I joined up, that I don’t remember how I first heard of it.
It is hard to find any other active members with a Member No. under 100….
The site is terrific, and well managed..
I call it a family of friends, and some friends I haven’t met yet.
Thanks All.
Jack..
“other”….hunting buddy
Hey Jack, There are still a few of the old timers around…JonJ, Kooty, and Plantz are all in the 30’s…
I don’t post a lot, but I read almost everyday. I found this site after finding something very similar and thinking “wonder if there is something better out there”…well there certainly was and it seems to get better with age
#33
Found this site from a magazine article, though I can’t remember the mag or article. Might have been one on Dezurik’s river tactics on pool 2, its the only one that comes to mind.
I used to be part of another website staff and I got an email from this Holst guy one day. He asked if I would be interested in coming over to the “good side” and work for them? His sales pitch worked!
I passed him (Holst) many a time on the River and wondered who that was that would drive his Yarcraft standing up? Then I started seeing him fishing tournaments on Pool 4 and started talking to him about fishing and other stuff..
It seems our goals were pretty much running the same lines. And the rest is history.
Sure is nice not fishing against him anymore!
I was looking for a Used Ice depth finder for my wife and a fishing friend told me about one on here. Once I got that marcum from Scott Steil I started seeing all of the other information on the site and signed up. Great site for all information. 
Working for the local phone company, I would see the stickers on boats & trucks all round the metro for a couple of years. So this spring I finally went on there & have missed a day checking it since.
How did I find this site?
Well, on my way home one day I was behind a Red 1/2 Ton Chevy Pickup with a large In-Depth Angling sticker in the rear window.
Actually I have been behind this fellow a few times to and from work.
If you live just west of St. Boni in Meadowview Meadows then you know who you are. 
I know who you are talking about, but it isn’t me Lots of Luck.
I’ll let him identify himself if he wishes to. But he has been here for awhile!
My son hookem_9 told me about it. Awesome site!!!!
I got here from my first ARM event. when B_sanders took me and Joe out for the day. the Tuffy was out in full force. he pointed me here and told me that the pics that he took of Joe holding up his eyes were going to be posted on this website.
shane
My teacher Mr. Hansen, from 7th and 8th grade showed me this awesome site in march of 2005. I thought i’d check it out, and bam! Less than a year later, I had over a thousand posts! 
So thanks Mr. Hansen (str8shooter), for showing me my favorite website!
I asked the fiance’s dad if he knew anyone that wanted to sell a 15 h.p. motor he sent this site to me and have missed only a few days on it some days only a few minutes
When I first moved to Shakopee about 6 years ago I wanted to fish the MN river…..so I typed “fish the river MN” in the search box and I came up with two sites. Fishing the River or fish the river dot com and “the other one”.
I think this site used to be fishtheriver or fishingtheriver. I recently was reading a Miss Cat thread on this site and finally decided to chime in, and to my surprise I had registed back in 01 or something like that.
Sure is fun to look back at some of those first posts 
many years ago.. I ran across a site called fish the river… which evloved to IDA…. I actually cant remember how I found them… or maybe they found me? course.. if they had found me.. why didnt they run far and fast?.. so I musta found them….
Bringing up an old post.
I’m wondering if “word of mouth” is still top of the list?
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