The Power of the Browser

[Regor]

I completely agree, and can even find BWE posts via Google search

If you look at some of the posts asking for basic generic help, you may see 8-10 replies to that thread. Meanwhile, using the same criteria and searching for help ends up giving you 100 threads with a possible 8-10 replies each = 800 posts

I do have one suggestion for BWE admins - Please, please, please decrease the amount of characters required in a "Search". To limit the number of characters to greater than 3 is inhibiting the search capabilities of the users. Examples of how this is affecting us:

~ "WSB Recipe" - ends up searching only for "Recipe" and leaves out the WSB portion
~ "FF" - will not search due to too few characters, but yet many thread use "FF" in the title.
~ "Fishfinder GPS" - will only search for "Fishfinder" and leave out the GPS portion due to too few characters in "GPS"
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[jhook]

Originally Posted by Regor

I completely agree, and can even find BWE posts via Google search

If you look at some of the posts asking for basic generic help, you may see 8-10 replies to that thread. Meanwhile, using the same criteria and searching for help ends up giving you 100 threads with a possible 8-10 replies each = 800 posts

I do have one suggestion for BWE admins - Please, please, please decrease the amount of characters required in a "Search". To limit the number of characters to greater than 3 is inhibiting the search capabilities of the users. Examples of how this is affecting us:

~ "WSB Recipe" - ends up searching only for "Recipe" and leaves out the WSB portion
~ "FF" - will not search due to too few characters, but yet many thread use "FF" in the title.
~ "Fishfinder GPS" - will only search for "Fishfinder" and leave out the GPS portion due to too few characters in "GPS"
...
..
.

The forum search function is pretty bad. For some reason the search results are sorted by date rather than relevance. I recommend just using google to search the forum. You can do this by adding site:www.bigwatersedge.com after your search terms in google. For example:

WSB Recipe site:www.bigwatersedge.com

[Jimmyz123]

I've just been reading a lot of posts lately where some, including myself, have posted questions and one of the answers is, "Go use the search." Or something like that and so rather than anoying some of the vets that are on the board I thought I would help other newbs and let them know what I do before I post a question. Only trying to help others, never meant to come off sounding as if I'm not playing nice with others.

[steveooo]

Originally Posted by Jimmyz123

I've just been reading a lot of posts lately where some, including myself, have posted questions and one of the answers is, "Go use the search." Or something like that and so rather than anoying some of the vets that are on the board I thought I would help other newbs and let them know what I do before I post a question. Only trying to help others, never meant to come off sounding as if I'm not playing nice with others.

No worries here. You just set up the ultimate ally-oop pass.

No one on here knows it all. Even the vets learn new things each time they get out OTW. Since fish reports are few and far inbetween lately due to weather etc, all questions are good.

Like I used to tell my students when I was a teacher- "There are no stupid questions, only stupid people".

Yakfishing is constantly evolving. The same answers that worked 2 yrs ago, may not be the best answer today. On the other hand, there is some tried and true stuff in the archives here that will likely never change. You can make the sport as simple as paddleing out with 1 rod, and a seat on a bare kayak, or you can get as technical as you want with sideimaging and carbon fiber state of the art stuff.
It doesn't matter how/what/when/where/why you do it, as long as you come in covered in fish slime everyonce in a while its all good.


I have learned this since I started. You catch fish by spending time on the water, not by spending time on the internet

[Jimmyz123]

Originally Posted by steveooo

I have learned this since I started. You catch fish by spending time on the water, not by spending time on the internet

Amen to that. I would much rather be on the water right now, but work does not allow that during work hours. I hope the weather allows for some of us to get out on the water this weekend, but we'll see.

[Regor]

Originally Posted by jhook

I recommend just using google to search the forum. You can do this by adding site:www.bigwatersedge.com after your search terms in google. For example:

WSB Recipe site:www.bigwatersedge.com

WOW !!

GREAT Results !

[dsafety]

Originally Posted by jhook

The forum search function is pretty bad. For some reason the search results are sorted by date rather than relevance. I recommend just using google to search the forum. You can do this by adding site:www.bigwatersedge.com after your search terms in google. For example:

WSB Recipe site:www.bigwatersedge.com

There is something new to be learned every day. I have an Internet company and did not know this trick. Thanks for the tip.

Lamb, maybe you could include some sort of script in your search link that adds "site:www.bigwatersedge.com to all the search requests. The Google results could be displayed in a new window. Just a thought.

Bob