Folks,
Hard to believe but in seven short months we will celebrate the 20th anniversary of SOL. Holy crud, how did that time pass so quickly? So many original members have passed on and all of our lives have changed in so many ways.....marriage, divorce, birth of children, passing of family members and friends, job changes, 9/11, Sandy, destruction of NJ jetties, boom and bust cycles in fish populations, getting Omega Protein kicked out of NJ waters, fighting for shore access, Food Flings etc.
It was the fall of 1999.....things started getting testy on another site and some members were banned. Led by the Imperious Deceiver of Numerous and Sizeable Unicorns AKA @TimS, a bunch of guys migrated to another board. And then came Tim's Flies....and soon thereafter, SOL went live. There was a mad rush to register, the site grew like wildfire and became the Goliath that it is today. To quote Bob Seeger: "Twenty years now, where'd they go? twenty years, I don't know, sit and I wonder sometimes,Where they've gone".