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You people reading anything I said??? Just curious, because it is actually yourselves who are damning this project up! Your first mistake is by calling it a "Hall of Fame"...therein lies your biggest problem. People read too much into anything called a "Hall of Fame"....they get offended when the people who are included are not what THEY call "the best" in this sport, and that is not what this should be about. That is why I proposed what I stated earlier. A forum that contains these people in photos and bios that are informative and educational, so that people can know them and understand who they were and the contributions that they made to Saltwater Fishing as a sport, a passion, and a pastime. Not that these people, any of them were the best fisherman, or the best rod-maker, or the best plug builder or who caught the biggest fish or the most fish.....just that they simply were! That they existed, and this is who they were or are, and these are their contributions and also some of the great "personal" achievements that they had as a fisherman....plain and simple without having a brighter spotlight on some and not so bright a spotlight on others. That is not what this should be about.
Example: Stan Gibbs was born in Easton, Massachusetts in the year 1915. Stan began his passion for fishing at an early age catching sunfish and pickeral in his native Easton. Relocating his family to Sagamore in 1945, Stan was able to concentrate on his passion for fishing by honing his skills fishing the fast moving current of the Cape Cod Canal etc. etc. Stan began turning plugs from broom handles in the basement of his Sagamore home etc. etc. People having seen the success that Stan was having with his home made plugs began asking him if they could purchase a few and the cottage industry of Gibbs Plugs was born etc. etc.
Fill in the many voids left by me with facts of any time in the service Stan did, his many occupations which put food on the table for his growing family, his hunting and trapping expertise, and personal accounts of some people who knew him in regards to the type of person he was and the places he used to haunt. You see, these people are no different than any of us....they worked, fed their family and indulged a passion in fishing just as we do. They don't hit game winning homeruns, or score Superbowl winning touchdowns.....they were and are people just like us. As soon as the rest of you boil it all down to the simple thing that it needs to be to make it work and benefit eneryone, then it will come together and be a beautiful way to simply honor these many people. As far as treating it like a "Hall of Fame" by convening a panel and voting people in periodically, that is the mistake. Make a long list of people who could be included and maybe add one to the "Forum" periodically, whether it be one a week or every other week or whenever someone has time to do the work to put the information up, it really is just about remembering them and letting other people know who they were and what they did as a fisherman or woman. I am done on this thread, I have spoken my mind and it is up to the rest of you to take the ball and run with it or argue it to death, ultimately it is up to the big guy JohnR. Later folks.
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