It seems that recent years blogs are becoming a thing of the past. As I watch the blog roll on Northern California Trout, posts from those blogs are becoming fewer and fewer.
With the
advent of social media, those that had blogs have migrated to Facebook,
Twitter, or some other format.
I’ve
mentioned on many occasions that, although I have a Facebook account, I only
use it to locate people. An example being two of my first cousins that have
been not been in contact with our family for all my life and most of theirs. Other
than that kind of search, I don’t do any social media nor do I have a desire to
do any.
I’ve
contemplated ending Northern California Trout for more than a year. Now, with
the current Covid-19 pandemic and this Summer with the massive wildfires, it’s
been almost impossible to go fishing. Summer trout fishing is done in the
mountains East of here, but now with the huge fires and I’m sure you’ve heard
about them, they have closed all of the National Forests and that’s where all
the streams and lakes are. So, unless you want to fish for warm water fish, you
are just SOL.
The next part of Northern California Trout is
the .com. I purchased the name through GoDaddy.com. Since there is seemly
little interest in blogs any more it just doesn’t make sense to pay for a .com
that is coming passe.
To add to
that is the new interface on blogger. Everybody has a “new mousetrap” so to
speak and blogger (which drives Northern California Trout) has introduced its
new interface and in my opinion, it sucks, but then that’s their problem.
I want to
thank each and every person, from all over the world, that has stopped by since
the inception of NCT on January 7, 2009. I’ve had about 870,000 views and have
shared my stories 1187 times. It’s been a great run, but I think it’s time to
go.
So, Northern
California Trout will remain on the web at northerncaliforniatrout.com until
about January 2022, but I will cease posting as this will be the final post.
Thank you
again and please, stay safe.
Mark