What this site is about

What this site is about

This site is about Frank Boesemeyer
Frank started his page in April 1997, shortly after he got hocked on fishing. The original URL for this site was http://trout.eaglepc.com which is still in place.
Frank was diagnosed with juvenile diabetic at age 15. Caused by an insulin reaction, he died on April 6th. 1999 in a motor vehicle accident.
Once the bad news got out, we, the family, were approached by a number of fisherman, to keep the site up and running.
We realized, that Frank made a lot of friends - not only on the waters - but also with fellows he met on the 'Net, if it was just by chatting, entering messages in guest books, or helping some guys, getting their web page up and running.

There was no question in our mind: We would maintain Frank's web page in his spirit. For some time we left his page in the original format with little modifications.

Since Frank was turning into a walleye-fan, the URL was registered under the more generic name http://sportfisherman.net; and with that in place we were and are giving some of his fisherman-friends the possibility to host their pages for free - (site has to be fish-related) otherwise no strings attached.

We added some features and took them off (i.e. Frank always wanted a message board - but because we are not actively fishing, we could not maintain it, and because we did not want to promote selected professionals and deny others access, we did not get the traffic to make it interesting enough).

To make a long story short - We decided to run this page to give the interested fisherman the information he/she is looking for - the main issue is to keep the memories of our son alive and the hobby he was so much involved in.