Share Your Insights As I Work To Improve My FishBytes Fishing Report

I have several projects in the works to improve my weekly FishBytes report. People seem to like the report and so I'm investing considerable time to make it more interesting and informative.

A key improvement, just completed, allows readers to easily submit comments and share insights related to fishing report and outdoor news. I can't do it all myself. If a few knowledgeable readers will share their insights, we can vastly improve the quality of the report.

Comments from readers now appear down the left side of the FishBytes page. It is very easy to post comments. The comments are immediately displayed on the page. I hope we can post new, interesting material every day, so people can read it while it is fresh, instead of having to wait until Thursday evening when I compile the complete report.

I've also just completed other website improvements. Here are two that seem significant.

1. Alphabetical index of fishing waters has been moved to the main fishing page. That should make it easier to find info about waters throughout Utah.

2. I've added a page describing southern Utah wild trout streams, using info provided by the DWR. These are small waters and perhaps most don't justify full sections on the website. In fact, I really don't want to focus too much attention on any one of them. But I love to fish these waters, and I know others share that interest, so I've made basic info easier to find.

3. I've also added a map-based navigation option to the home page, making it easy to go quickly to major sections of the website. I still need to tweak that, and add more info about some places, but the basic concept is already functional.

The number of people visiting this site is skyrocketing. User sessions are up more than 100% over last year. Month to month grown is very strong, despite the fact that this is generally considered to be a slow time of year.

People seem to like to site and so I'm working hard to improve it.

- Dave