Over a year in the making, I am beyond thrilled to present the latest version of calfishing.com.

The new features include:

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Integrated Forum and Reports
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The new report section is tied to your forum login. Log in in one place, and you will be remembered in the other.

Your login is good for the forum, and for reports
http://www.calfishing.com/files/Images/help_pages/reports_maps/login.jpg

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Report Section
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There are now 623 unique fishing locations that you can post a report to and counting.

Reports Screenshot
http://www.calfishing.com/files/Images/help_pages/reports_maps/locations.jpg

Each location has been validated, marked, and mapped using Google Maps. Finding these spots could not be easier. You can view them on a map, list them alphabetically, sort them by county, or by geographic region.

Sort Options
http://www.calfishing.com/files/Images/help_pages/reports_maps/sorts.jpg

The latest reports can be viewed on the home page - giving you a quick snapshot of what's new.

Check the Latest on the Home Page
http://www.calfishing.com/files/Images/help_pages/reports_maps/recent_reports.jpg

To add a photo to your report, simply paste in an image link from anywhere on the internet. You could add a pic from your calfishing gallery, from flickr, momentoffame, or anywhere you like.

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Maps
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Each location that can be reported on also has a large map page where you can get information about the location, view links, and view sub-locations like marinas, points, or launch ramps. For example, check out the California Delta for a growing list of marinas -- each marked on the map with easily accessible driving directions.

CA Delta Screen Shot
http://www.calfishing.com/files/Images/help_pages/reports_maps/delta.jpg

Each location has a convenient weather forecast from Accuweather.com, and already there are over 300 links to get more information about individual locations, links for camping, local lake management, lake levels, and more.

The information here will grow and expand over time. This is just day one.

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Tides
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Have you ever looked at the tide web-sites for California? If you are like me, you probably got confused trying to locate exactly where the tide markers were. Take a look at the Calfishing Tide Map page and wonder no more. Every tide station from Mexico to Oregon, including every Delta location. Now you can find Snodgrass Slough, click the marker, and get the tides.

Finding Snodgrass Slough the Easy Way
http://www.calfishing.com/files/Images/help_pages/reports_maps/tide_example.jpg

Take a look at the tide map for yourself here:
http://www.calfishing.com/loc/tides.html

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If you have a fishing location you'd like to see added, please use the contact form to suggest it. I'll have more formal procedures available in the future. There's hundreds of hours invested here to make this happen but I know that like you - I will want it to be better, more comprehensive, and more exciting. I hope you'll choose to be a part of this - it may take another year - but this is only just the beginning of what calfishing.com will become.

Thanks for your support - and thank you to all who contributed to this project - Nico Raffo whose programming expertise is beyond anything I will ever attain, and without whose help none of this would be possible. Mark Rogers, Ryan Thoni, John Lake, Jeremy Pratt, my wife Summer and everyone else I bugged for feedback and user testing. Thank you. Enjoy the site :D