Does the Interblab Need Yet Another Fishing Web Site?

[fishpoopoo]

Nowadays you can find just about any conceivable interest group on the web.

You can search for your favorite exotic cat/dog/catdog/dogcat recipes or gay necrophiliac midget porn sites 24/7.

I was just kinda curious ... do you think there is room for more northeast saltwater fishing sites or is the field pretty much saturated?

(You can guess why I'm asking this ... see recent )

I pretty much spend my time on 3-4 well-known regional boards (well, 3 really since I'm in the moderator's queue on one of them ) . I don't think I have the attention span or the time to really frequent a 5th one.

How many times can ya beat the same fishing topics to death on the interblab?

The other thing I noticed is ... I get more "entrenched" with the same 3-4 sites (three really) as I become increasingly connected with the "community" ... not that I'm "clique-y" but I do tend to remain with the same group of people I've personally met and fished with over several years.

(On a side note, the recent spamming by a proponent of another board could be viewed as an unwelcome intrusion of sorts into aforementioned collective sense of community, which might explain some discomfort at the spamming. Interesting psychology this interblab brings about.)

One could argue that the number of fishing boards is only limited by the growth in participation and online awareness of the sport. With the proliferation of all these UBB type forums, you'd think that northeast saltwater shore and boat angling is booming. But that doesn't strike me as the case today ... if you compare northeast saltwater angling (both shore and boat) to other types of forums.

Today, the largest such forum has several thousand members. Some of the non-fishing sites (excluding porn of course) I frequent have memberships in the tens of thousands.

It seems to me that the boards that were relative "first movers," have core communities and have staying power with their sponsors (e.g., noreast, sol, s-b, ss, etc) ... will be the ones that will garner the most eyeballs. But I could be wrong.

Anyhoo, just looking to get your thoughts, since fishing seems to be winding down.