Fishing At High Speed
If you like to troll the web, GHM’s Online Fisherman is always a hit.
BY Fred Garth
It’s hard to admit that I was already a veteran magazine guy before websites were invented. And, before email. Uh, and also before fax machines. I think we had trains but I can’t recall. It’s all a bit fuzzy. I did have a car, I remember that.
In 1994, I met a dude in California who was experimenting with this weird thing called the Internet. Sidetone: his real job was a cameraman for The Price is Right with Bob Barker so his credentials were, uh, very odd. Nonetheless, he built a cool website and showed it to me. It ran slower than a snail on Vicodin. But all websites were glacially slow back then.
Now, of course, everyone would die and the world would explode into a massive fireball if the Internet disappeared. At least that’s what my kids say on their Snapchat messages to me. Fortunately, the Guy Harvey Magazine family is always refining our web position. In the past five years, we’re reconfigured our website five times. We’ve added Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites that cause me irrational fear, but are still somehow important.
Our most recent website iteration is by far the most incredible in our history. It’s Guy Harvey Magazine’s Online Fisherman (www.ghmof.com) and we’re reaching more than a million fishers per month with our amazing articles, videos, photos and super active forum. Each month we produce 36 original video fishing reports so you, our esteemed readers, will have the latest and greatest info about where, how, when and what to fish for. You already know the “why” part.
GHM’s Online Fisherman has an “Ask the Captain” section in which you can ask any question, no matter how smart or how dumb. Our resident expert, Capt. David Remount, will do his best to answer you. No question goes unattended. Capt. Dave is a stickler. The vast, almost infinite, information on GHM’s Online Fisherman would take a lifetime to read but you can break it up into small, digestible and enjoyable pieces. Perhaps the foundation of the site is the prolific amount of “how to” stuff, like, “how to catch a red snapper” or “how to tie a Bimini knot” or “how to break up with your girlfriend because she doesn’t like to fish.” Okay, that’s not really on there but I’ll bet Capt. Dave has some good suggestions. When you get a chance, drop him a line and find out.
