Fishing the Internet offers many informational sites

Lahontan Valley News/Fallon Eagle Standard, Saturday, September 27, 2003

BY DEBBIE SHARP PRODUCTION

The Internet offers wide collection of hunting and fishing resources from around world that are available at your fingertips.

On local web site got its start from a family web page.

When Fallon-area resident Wes Craig started a family web page he had no idea it would evolve into the fishing website it is today.

“I’m the biggest blabber mouth when it comes to fishing,” Craig admitted.

Craig, an avid fisherman, received lots of calls from family and friends for the latest fishing information.   When he began putting updates on his family web page, the response to this addition was so great, he decided to dedicate the web to just fishing.

The site, called Wes’s Fishing Report, can be found at www.wescraig.net.  Put together by an angler who “loves fishing,” it has frequently upgraded information on many Northern Nevada lakes, like Pyramid and Walker, and some out-of-area fishing too, including the north coast of California and Brookings, Oregon.

He receives information from individuals, bait shops and guides.

“I love to hear from other fishermen,” Craig said.  The more information he has, the more information he can pass on to other fishermen.  “I want everyone to know what is available.”

When someone wanted weather reports listed or where to stay in Brookings, “I let them know what I know or I set up a link so they can find out more information.”  Craig explained.  “I like to help others [to] have a better day of fishing.  It’s just what I do.”

Included on his web site [is] “The Fishing Zone,” an Internet tackle shop that his wife Cynde [Cydne] manages.

I would get calls from peoples who wanted some of the lures used in this area that weren’t available where they lived.  This was a way for them to get what they wanted,” Craig said.

Wes also sends out free email updates [notices.]  If you would like to get on the Wes’s Fishing Report free email list, send your name, address, phone number, e-mail address and a statement that says, “I would like to be on the fishing update e-mail list,” and Wes will set you up.