Publisher: Fly Fishing Community with Blog, Forum Stream Reports and News

95 Paflyfish has provided anglers an online community to share, learn and collaborate about fly fishing in the Pennsylvania and Northeast region. The site is for all level of anglers interested in not only learning more about the sport, but interested giving back as well. With over 7,000 registered members, 250,000 unique visitors and 7,500,000 page views a year Paflyfish has very enthusiastic community. Members include of course beginners, experienced anglers, authors, guides, fly shop owners, scientists, conservationists and trout bums. The website consists of several community resources including: Blog, Forum, Stream Reports, Stream Locations, Maps, Photo Section, and Polls. The forum is a very enthusiastic community that is not only knowledgeable, but very passionate. The Paflyfish activities extend offline as well to include beginner clinics, fly tying workshops, fly fishing meet-ups, support to conservation efforts and other non-site events. Many of the activities are informally organized by members anxious to help share with others. Paflyfish was created by Dave Kile initially as a way for anglers to find fly fishing locations across the Pennsylvania region and a way to give back like those who had helped him first get started. Dave grew up in Southeast Pennsylvania and first got started fishing with his father as soon as he could pick up a Zebco rod. Spring times were spent trout fishing in the Poconos and summer family vacations were large mouth bass opportunities in Canada. While attending Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) he was first introduced to fly fishing. The friends who took the time to teach him how to fly fish were a significant inspiration for Paflyfish. After graduating with a degree and a concentration in digital cartography, Dave pursued a technology career that initially landed him position with Apple Computer. Working with some of the early web server technologies presented him the opportunity to bring together his passion for fly fishing, knowledge in digital mapping and desire in giving back to the sport is all what started Paflyfish. It took a almost a full year of drawing the early stream locations maps, creating web pages and setting up servers before site even got started with about 200 pages of fly fishing information.