• Movin' on up

My ranking on Hitsunlimited.com has shot up into the top 50. I'm ranked number 47 at the moment. I was bouncing back and forth between the 90's and the 70's, but after my two latest posts, my hits have more than doubled. Gotta love Google searches. I don't know how much longer people will be doing searches on either of the two topics, but I know the popularity won't last forever. However, after Saturday's 185 unique visitors and Sunday's 227 unique visitors, I would have thought someone would have been tempted to comment. I had a comment on the H2O reel, but that was about it. I'm beginning to get the feeling that many of them don't even know what RSS is or how to subscribe to any feed. It's a tough group to figure out. At least I've stumbled upon one way to get them to visit in droves. Hopefully it will get me a few more repeat visitors. Is the concept of a blog too technologically involved for this kind of visitor?

• Edited Rattle Traps Post

I noticed two recent searches on rattle traps. They were looking for which line to use as well as which knot to tie. I dug around the net for a while looking for answers. The edit is located at the bottom of the post. Hopefully that will help out those folks wondering about either question. I could not find a definitive answer for the knot question, but still wrote in my findings.

• Updated Gamma Copolymer Review

I updated the Gamma Copolymer review. I purchased some 20lb of the copolymer and have used it enough to share some thoughts. As always, the edit is at the bottom of the post.

• As the season picks up

As the bass fishing season picks up this Spring, I am wondering if my blog will receive more visitors. Unless you're into ice fishing, most bass fishermen have packed up their gear and put it into storage over the Winter. As it warms up, they'll be out and about buying new gear and looking things up online more often. I'll have to wait and see. March and April are going to be busy months for me though. I won't be posting nearly as often because I will hopefully have two rotations wrapping up my med school requirements.

• I am working, I really am

I am working on a few posts. Unfortunately, I came down with a nasty cold after flying back from Detroit a week ago. The weather over the next week isn't all that perfect, but if I start feeling better, I may wet a line. I've got graduation and residency on my mind as well. I'm working on the posts on knots and fish handling. I might head to Academy when the coughing settles down. Got a $15 gift card to burn.

• Updated P-Line Halo

I updated my P-Line Halo review today. I fished off the pier for a while and eventually snagged in a cypress limb. I tried to yank free and the line broke. I've had the same line spooled on for a while, so I know more about the stuff and figured now would be a good time to write more on the review.

• Myspace

I broke down and joined Myspace yesterday. Just another way to shamelessly promote my blog. Not sure it'll do anything but infuriate a lot of southerners.

http://www.myspace.com/iamabassfisherman

• Scenic Photos

I have a new digital camera. I am thinking about using it to take photos of nature on the lake. We've got lots of cypress, birds, plant life, and sometimes very nice sunsets off the water if you catch it at the right moment. The only thing is Blogger has a space limit of 1024MB for images and over time, photos like this could take up quite a bit of space. I might use Photobucket. Then I could use the photo slide show widget Blogger has. The pics won't be huge and would be presented more appropriately in a separate blog and not crammed in with the fishing blog. I could organize them using labels and still post them in the fishing blog to keep things simple.

Not sure where I'll go with this idea, but I'm throwing it out there since photography is pretty commonplace in the world of blogging.