There are some new avatar images now available if you would like to check out the options. An avatar image, for those who aren't familiar, is that little picture that shows up on the upper left hand corner of your post. A number of avatars that were in the upload directory on the forum were somehow removed/disappeared, so if your avatar shows up as a broken image, this could be a good time to go pick a new one.

To select your avatar, click on 'User Menu' from the main forum menu at the top of any forum page. Then click on 'Edit Your Profile'. The third section down is for Avatars. There's a link on the left side that says 'Click Here to Choose from Available Avatars'. You can click that and select your avatar. You may have to turn off your pop up blocker if you have one in order to see the avatar picker window.

If you want your own avatar, you need (ideally) a 48x48 pixel image file, and you need to get it online somewhere. It would be best not to use the image upload feature on the forum due to some weirdness with the way that it works with images that are uploaded but not shown in any posts on the board. Then, get the link to that image (right click -> properties) and put that link in the box under your User Profile

Here's a sample of what's new

http://www.calfishing.com/dc/images/avatars/tourney_frog.jpg
http://www.calfishing.com/dc/images/avatars/speedtrap.jpg
http://www.calfishing.com/dc/images/avatars/spook.jpg
http://www.calfishing.com/dc/images/avatars/pointer.jpg
http://www.calfishing.com/dc/images/avatars/jig.jpg
http://www.calfishing.com/dc/images/avatars/madman.jpg

http://www.calfishing.com/dc/images/avatars/halibut.jpg
http://www.calfishing.com/dc/images/avatars/catfish.jpg
http://www.calfishing.com/dc/images/avatars/dd_bass.jpg
http://www.calfishing.com/dc/images/avatars/open_mouth_bass.jpg
http://www.calfishing.com/dc/images/avatars/lipped_bass.jpg
http://www.calfishing.com/dc/images/avatars/night_bass.jpg

http://www.calfishing.com/dc/images/avatars/chronarch_mg.jpg
http://www.calfishing.com/dc/images/avatars/calcutta_te.jpg

http://www.calfishing.com/dc/images/avatars/versa2.jpg
http://www.calfishing.com/dc/images/avatars/versa.jpg

There's a bunch more swimbait ones too to check out.

If anyone has any ocean pics that show the fish cleanly and in a fairly normal pose, that would be cool if you could send them over to me via swimbait@gmail.com or post them. I'd like to have avatars for calico bass, corbina, surf perch, yellowtail, tuna, etc.

-Rob