About Old Fishing Stuff . com

Old Fishing Stuff went on line in May of 1999. At the time there was a decided lack of on line information available for fishing tackle collectors. My vision was for a magazine type web site that provided information, not a site full of my collection, or a message board. I believe we have succeeded.  

OFS is not a profit making site. It exists because of my love of fishing and collecting old fishing stuff. I hope this comes through. I have been collecting old tackle since the 1970s, and have written seven books on old fishing stuff. I am the past editor of The Reel News, the magazine of the Old Reel Collectors Association, and have also contributed many articles to the National Fishing Lure Collectors Club.

Thanks to all of you in making this site the most popular informational tackle collector web site on the net. Two years after opening this site, we were receiving 200,000 hits per month. Almost 5000 different people visit this site every month, and about 25% of you come back more than once each month. I guess we're doing something right.

If you have any ideas to improve OFS, we'd like to hear from you.