Public Announcement (Sort of)

As you will recall I registered the domain name Yak-Angler. I did not realize it at the time, there is a site called YakAngler.com. My fault, I didn’t do any research; after being informed of the other guys, by Allen polepole (our Administrator) I thought best to contact the management at YakAngler to see if they had concerns, and they did.

YakAngler management requested I not use their name with a dash in the middle for the new website. They did however think the screen name Yak-Angler here and on other forums was a good name, so it stays.

Rather than make demands, management at the YakAngler site were very pleasant and gracious enough to make it worth my while to change the name. The have bought all rights and are the new proud owner of the name Yak-Angler in .com, .net and .org. buying the registration of those names protects them for the future.

I’m out some time but I’m very pleased with YakAngler’s management. I still as yet have not visited their Website, been too busy; however, I’m invited to share some of my write-ups and stories with them and they want to do a piece on their Website introducing my new site after it is launched; definitely, nice people.

I found a new set of names to register: KayakOwners.com, I’ve Googled every combination of that name I could think of and I’m pretty sure It is safe so that’s the name I’ll stay with. I like the new name much better for what I want the Website to do, which is; feature Kayak Owners, their Kayaks and the fishing they do.

We’ve bought unlimited bandwidth, meaning there is no limit to the number of photos on the site and every photo will enlarge to 1200x857 - the equivalent of a 14x10 print photo (using a good printer, suitable for framing). A few of the best photos will be sized at 1600x900, 1920x1280 or 2500x1400, which are great sizes for wide-screen monitor backgrounds.

All enlargements presented without worries our Internet host will throttle the delivery and make the photos smaller than we intend.

The goal of KayakOwners.com:
Provide high quality photos to the aspiring kayak buyer, as well as the seasoned kayak owner. It is our hope the large detailed photos will help people decide which new or used fishing kayaks they would like to look into further; I believe doing this will help grow our sport and make us stronger.

If we are not unified and strong we may become just like other sports that became regulated to the point the sport dies; off road users know what I’m referring to.

If for any reason anyone believes KayakOwners.com is a violation of another trademark, speak now or forever hold your peace.

Sounds like a marriage; and is sort of.

Thanks, I hope to do a good job for you. I’ll let you all know when we go live.

That's great to hear Mark and crew worked with you.  I hang out at that site as my "national" site of preference.  Because they tend to be have a much more focus on east of the Mississippi, the technical fishing details I crave aren't anywhere near as applicable as the NWKA site. 

Yakangler.com is a great site to pick the brains and ideas of fishing techniques of folks in areas other than your local area.  I'm having a blast pitching jigs for cohos and using float techniques I picked up steelheading in WA and transferring them to the fish here in Alaska.  Hardly anyone fishes that way here. From the Southeast America I hope to test some Alabama rig set ups in the near future. 

If you are looking for ideas and posts about how the other folks do it west of us, I'd definitely take a look.  It's well moderated site with none of the nastiness of the other sites I have visited. 

Good luck on your website!!!!  Keep us informed!!!  I can NEVER get enough information from those willing to share!!!!!

This is another reason why I like this community. Instead of digging in you worked it out to the betterment of everyone involved.

Kardinal, we found the same thing while we were up in Alaska. We were nailing the salmon on bobber and jigs while everyone around us was flinging spinners. To say the least, we were not very popular.