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Fishwithme.net is a nationwide fishing club that aims to help their members find fishing partners in any location.

The online club provides members with a web-based tool to search and connect with local fishing buddies. Members create profiles including fishing preferences and interests, boat details, and photos. Members connect with other anglers via in-application messaging and by hosting or joining posted fishing outings. Outings can be listed as free or shared-cost with the additional option of Fishwithme.net facilitating the online collection and disbursement of shared expenses. Fishwithme.net also lists local events such as fishing seminars, nautical flea markets, fish and boat shows, fishing tournaments, and other fishing related events. Members share events via an online form-fill and Fishwithme.net actively populates that list with events as well. The Fishwithme.net tagline is “Save. Learn. Fish.” The company’s goal is to help members find buddies, member hosted fishing outings, and fishing events in any geographic location with a core focus on enabling members to save, learn, and fish.

Founding and incorporation
Fishwithme.net was conceived by Stacy McCaskill and incorporated in Illinois on June 6, 2014. Only days after conceiving the idea, Stacy pitched Fishwithme.net at Rockford’s annual business plan competition, Fast Pitch, winning 3rd place.

Encouraged by this win, Stacy began actively seeking a technical partner and in the Fall of 2014 forged a relationship with Jason Todd of Thinker Ventures.

Thinker Ventures, LLC of Rockford, Illinois offered extensive web-tech development experience and brought to the table a fulltime staff of six including programmers, front-end developers, graphic design experts, and social media gurus (www.thinkerventures.com).

Fishwithme.net has home offices located in Rockford, Illinois and Big Pine Key, Florida. The company is an active member of the American Sportfishing Association, the Rockford Chamber of Commerce, and the Lower Keys Chamber of Commerce.

Current Products
Fishwithme.net is a web-based nationwide, all species fishing club providing members with an easy to use online tool to search and connect with local fishing buddies. Members create profiles by logging fishing preferences and interests and uploading boat details and photos. Members connect with other anglers via an in-application messaging system and by hosting or joining member posted fishing outings. Members can list fishing outings as either free or shared-cost. Costs can be shared in person or by utilizing the online consumption sharing tool. Fishwithme.net will list local and national events such as fishing seminars, nautical flea markets, fish and boat shows, fishing tournaments, and other fishing related on-the-ground events. Members may also share events via a simple online form-fill.

New Products
Continuous improvement is a core Fishwithme.net value. Online tools are placed under regular review for both customer-requested and strategic revisions. Updates currently in development are improvements to listing and hosting requested outings. Currently, outings are created for a specific time and date. Strategies are being considered to add flexibility to dates while also keeping outing listings accurate and valuable to members.