All the sites have been upgraded to the latest wordpress release.

Enjoy

We have recently moved Lurecaster.com to new servers at Equinix Data center in Sydney, Australia.

Australians should notice a dramatic improvement to speed on sites.

Want to trade some gear? want a place to advertise your lures, tackle or boat your selling?

Login to trade.lurecaster.com and advertise for free!

Want an email address like MYNAME@lurecaster.com to go along with your site MYNAME.lurecaster.com? Now you can, and with a top of the line webmail interface.

Lurecaster.com has partnered with Google to provide free email accounts, calendaring, and a custom Google search page for our users.

You must have a blog/site on lurecaster.com with the same name as your email account. You can check for availability here

Once you have created your site, use the form below to send us the blog URL and thus name you request, and it should be setup in the next 24hrs.

Email Login: http://mail.lurecaster.com
Start Page: http://search.lurecaster.com

Calendar: http://calendar.lurecaster.com

We suggest you set search.lurecaster.com as your browser homepage.

You can now change your blog/website address from within the management screen of your site. Just go to Options / Publishing and enter the new site address (subject to availability of course!)

We have installed Spam Karma 2 for users in the plugins section of your site, as well as Bad Behaviour. Both these plugins will help in fighting ‘comment spam’

You are advised to switch these on in your blogs, to help avoid those nasty spam bots from posting a lot of garbage.

Photo Galleries have been added, and you can also see your usage of uploads from the users Dashboard now, initially we have set this to 10meg a user, but will be raising this as needed.

The main menu to manage the Photo Gallery is in :

Manage -> Photo Gallery

You can set where you show the gallery. The default is blogurl/?p=gallery but it can be changed, for example to /gallery or /photos. Other options can also be set. Once saved, the Photo Gallery is activated.

To add an album, go back to Manage ->Photo Gallery.

You can add albums first, then upload photos in them.

You may notice now you can add links to video on YouTube and Google Video amongst others, as well as link to an FLV (flash video) file on another server. There’s an icon on the ‘write post’ page for this, and you can see it in action here

Welcome to lurecaster.com, a blogging service for the fisher-folk.

Blogs allow you to keep an online journal of your fishing, in a more personalised way. And we hope that the ongoing improvements to the service should see a great number of lure casters ( ok .. and those that use bait ) have the ability to keep a running journal and point of entry for themselves on the internet.

You may want to just use the site to categorise your successes, tagging type of lure, weather and water turbidity. You may want to post and comment on interesting news and events from around the web. The choice is yours.

Oh, and while your at it .. why not join our GreenFish mailing list? here you can discuss via email Australias greatest sport, hunting our natives.

A big thanks to all the catch and release cod-masters on tacklebox.com.au and murraymonsters.com for this site existing.

catch and release,

The LureCaster Team