BUSY BUSY BUSY!!!

WOW! What a six months. So much going on, it's hard to know where to start. The website, Ohio Game Fishing, (www.ohiogamefishing.com) is exceeding all our expectations. Our growth continues to amaze, from fishing reports, tips, tricks, and we've also seen an upswing in our hunting forums as well.

In the past few months, we've added a couple media partners too. First, on the radio side, there's "Inside the Great Outdoors" radio with Reno Reda. The only LIVE outdoors radio program in NE Ohio. It's on 1420AM WHK Sunday mornings from 8 til 10AM. OGF sponsors the "Fishing Report" where our members provide the hot spots where the fish are biting in lakes, rivers, and streams from all over the state. I've also had the opportunity to co-host the show from time to time, which is a lot of fun. So, turn on the radio on the boat and listen in, or if you're surfing the web some Sunday, you can link up to the show, as it's streamed LIVE on the Internet. Link is available at www.whk-radio.com or through Ohio Game Fishing.

Our newest media partner is someplace near and dear to me. It's WKYC TV 3, the NBC affiliate out of Cleveland. Dear to me, because they're my employer! For a while now, I have been trying to get more and more outdoors stories on the local newscasts. They're visual, informative, and can at times be inspiring. I like shooting them, posting photos, and sharing fishing and outdoors experiences. Well, the powers that be decided to give me my shot. Together, we have developed a place for outdoors news off the WKYC news website. It can be viewed at www.wkyc.com/outdoors. Fishing reports, outdoors related news stories, information, weather reports, plus video stories that run on the air during our weekend morning newscasts. It's actually a dream come true. We have enormous outdoors resources here in Ohio, and WKYC Outdoors is your doorway to discovering them. Fishing, hunting, boating, camping, exploring, and a resource page are all in the works and being developed. We're even going to have a feedback area for viewer comments, plus a photo hosting page for your outdoors pictures. Look for the announcements on that real soon.

School is just about over and the Summer is heating up. There are so many opportunities to get out and enjoy the outdoors, and I sure hope you can. Check the WKYC Outdoors site for updates as to events going on you may be interested in.

If you have suggestions for the site, or any outdoor photos you'd like us to post, send them to me at cbachtel@wkyc.com and I'll get them to our webmaster.

Gotta run. Even though I'm on the outdoors beat, I still need to shoot "regular" news too. Like I said, BUSY BUSY BUSY!!!

I'm Carl "Big Daddy" Bachtel. Thanks for stopping by.