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Welcome!

Hello, Dusty.crockett, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Fishfinder. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Welcome to WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing

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Hello Dusty.crockett, and welcome to WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing!

Please see the navigation sidebar on our main project page for information about our project guidelines, resources, and pending tasks. You can post any questions at the project talk page. Thank you for joining - we look forward to working with you! – Geronimo20 (talk) 21:52, 9 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

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Slabbing/jigging

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Hi Dusty. I had never heard of slabbing before, but there is plenty of stuff about it on the web. It is also used to catch smelt when ice fishing. Currently, the article on jigging just covers a bit about jig lures used in recreational fishing. It should also discuss jigging used in commercial fishing to catch squid and cod, as well as the special vessels built for this purpose. I agree with you that slabbing seems to belong in the article as well. Would you like to integrate your stuff about slabbing into the article, and perhaps add a bit about ice fishing as well? Is there something about slabbing that sets it apart from jigging in general, or is it just a regional term for "jigging"? Later I'll add a section about commercial jigging. Best regards. --Geronimo20 (talk) 22:55, 3 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Well you don't have to know anything about ice fishing – you just need to know how to track down the best sources on the web. If you can find enough, you can use them to write a properly cited article on ice fishing, and become a bit of an expert in the process. Wikipedia is really about sources. What can be properly sourced belongs in the encyclopedia so long as it is notable. What cannot be properly sourced doesn't belong. A lot of the fishing articles are not properly cited. Some aren't cited at all. This is particularly a problem with recreational fishing, since good sources can be difficult to find, just a lot of opinion on blogs and forums. Blogs and forums are not acceptable sources, so there is a major cleanup issue there.
Anyway, if you would like to have a go, we could crank jigging up for a joint DYK. The article needs another 9000 characters to qualify for a DYK. I can add the section on commercial fishing, say 6000 characters. So if you could aim at another 3000 characters for the recreational section then its a goer. If you get stuck I'll give you a hand. So over to you. If you decide to give it a go, I'd rather not start for another week (too much else happening). So it would be better to not add anything yet, because once we start we have only about 7 days to complete it. --Geronimo20 (talk) 04:36, 4 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
Yes, I agree with that. I changed the name because an article called Jigging is more importantly needed as the main article, and it can be supported by another article called Jigging lure. If you are interested, you can create a page called User:Dusty.crockett/Sandbox (just click on this red link and create the page). This will then become your personal sandbox. Then, if you give me permission to use your sandbox with you for a while, we can use the sandbox to write and rewrite those articles until we are happy with them. Then we can put them online and see if can get two DYKs. If we do it that way, thee will be no time pressure. --Geronimo20 (talk) 19:41, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Troll (angling)

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Hi Dusty. When you delete material, as you did in Troll (angling), would you please indicate why in the edit summary. Actually, it's a help to other editors if you always comment your edits. Now I'm wondering why you deleted all that material? The article is a poor one, and needs to be developed. But I would have thought most of what you deleted belongs there in one form or another. --Geronimo20 (talk) 01:16, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

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