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Mazhar’s Tackle shop in keamari was the scene of a highly successful informal seminar on saltwater angling on the evening of wednesday the 19th of August.

20-25 new anglers took part in an interactive and informative seminar on basic to intermediete level concepts of saltwater angling.

After a brief introduction to the PGFA and its objectives, each new angler was invited to share his present experience of angling and what his aims are for the future. Once familiar with our audience, the discussion moved towards a host of pre-arranged topics meant to deal with all the fundamentals of the sport in a logical order.

Topics covered included:

• Bait fishing
• Trolling
• Casting (with a brief reference to jigging)
• Tackle and terminal tackle
• Drag and its caliberation
• Reading the water - tides, moon phase, weather,
• Where to fish
• Species wise information
• Safety

Given the immensity of these topics those areas which the audience by popular demand showed the most interest in were given more time.

A rich tapestry of experienced anglers were present to comment and explain each topic and this way a variety of opinions were shared with what has to be

described as an excellent and eager to learn audience. It was this combination of experience and new enthusiasm that gave the meeting a special quality which

no one person speaking alone could possibly achieve. This sort of collaboration to enhance participation in the sport is the very embodiment of the PGFA way.

Since all anglers love to talk, the idea was to put all this chatter to useful purpose and give some direction to an excellent group of new anglers.

The fact that four hours flew by without any participant budging from thier seats itself showed the success of the event and by popular demand as soon as

info@pgfa.org recieves enough requests for another seminar team PGFA will be ready to arrange it.

Photos Here

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PGFA/photos/album/695475990/pic/list

Regards,

Team PGFA

O rite guys we are here now, finally after getting loads of complains on receiving tons of emails from our Yahoo based mailing list and as we are getting 100s of hits day by day and different types of anglers wants to discuss different things on their time and topic, this is becoming impossible to carry on at Yahoo Groups and I guess this is the time to launch BLOG, A BLOG?

It’s an advanced and more easy to use form of Discussion Forum here after joining and by using the personalized DASHBOARD  (admin section) you guys can place POSTs which is equals to a new question/discussion or a message at Yahoo Group and on a POST rest of the members can reply by placing COMMENTS, here you can even write a single word expressing your thoughts as per your available time, example write “GOOD” and it will appear in the COMMENTS linked with the POST.

At Yahoo we use to delete loads of single liners just to avoid unnecessary traffic at forum which then result in member’s un-subscriptions coz nobody would like to receive dozens of email every day in their mailboxes but here you guys can write shortest COMMENT having single word or a huge multi pages COMMENT/POST with videos, images etc and no email will be delivered to any other member, whatever you post will remain under the POST and well organized under CATEGORIES>POST>COMMENTS

TO Register

Registration is as easy as two clicks, Go to http://blog.pgfa.org click on the link to REGISTER (http://blog.pgfa.org/wp-login.php?action=register) this will take you to a screen asking for User Name and Email enter the info and press REGISTER that’s it you are done, password will be e-mailed to you automatically after few minutes. Please login and change your password since auto sent passwords are very difficult to remember.

To Login at Admin /Dashboard

Again go to http://blog.pgfa.org click on LOGIN (http://blog.pgfa.org/wp-login.php) and enter the login/password, it will take you to the DASHBOARD/ADMIN, here you can add/manage your POSTs, Comments and Picture Galleries + a lot to come in future , YOU CAN ALSO SAVE PASSWORD BY CLICKING REMEMBER ME AT LOGIN SCREEN.

The other great feature is Picture Gallery, by using GALLERY option available in DASHBOARD you guys can upload as many images as you would like to upload and it will be bind with your profile, the other fast feature is if you have many images to upload use upload images using zip, in sets of 2MB files you guys can upload your images in bulk linked with the GALLERY preferably use your name just like we have many at Yahoo Groups, there is more now you can even post comments on individual photos!

By using browse by category you guys can browse as per your interests for example Freshwater, Trout Fishing, Saltwater etc. etc.

Our very own www.pgfa.org is linked with this blog and repots, species, destinations N maps, Ask Guru etc sections will be remained available after getting membership of PGFA.

This and more to come

Good Fishing,
Ali Saeed

While we are still working around the clock to get the site 100% again here are a few new things that are going to enhance everyones pleasure when surfing your very own angling encyclopedia - the pgfa website.

1. photo section.
If you scroll to the bottom right of the homepage (in the fishing in pakistan section) you will see a photo section. Before a member would have to click on the link to the pgfa forum and THEN access the picture. Now it is direct on the homepage. We look forward to many more interesting pictures and videos from here onwards.

2. The Official PGFA Blog
Now, in addition to the forum which is the only place where discussions are taking place, the official PGFA BLOG will soon be up as well. A fantastic new development, the blog will allow may new features to be incorporated into the general discussions and chats that are taking place presently in the forum.

Stay posted for other exciting development in the near future

Team PGFA

Dear Members,
PGFA have fallen victim to what appears to be a nefarious SQL Injection attack.  Our website is running on ASP Classic which is an old application that requires some protection updates for the vulnerable parts and changing codes of such a huge website requires some time, two of our developers are working 12 hours daily to resolve the issues. However for now we have to clean the database to remove some text injected into by Trojans, we are finally reached to what we call a short term solution to this problem.
Actually some hacking text has been appended to every column that contains some Characters, Because it has infected Text fields we cannot use website’s functions example your username is an email address and after injection im@alisaeed.com would become hackingtext+im@alisaeed.com and we can login with this info.
So we written a small application which removes Garbage from the database http://www.pgfa.org/garbagekiller.asp (only use when cant login and keep refreshing till you got success message)
Hope fully the long term solution is in way and we will be safe by end of this week, inshallah
So GO GO GO… post all your pending reports… we are eager to see them
Good Fishing
Ali Saeed