The Toolbox

A spinning wheel with eight lures from Dan’s own tackle box hiding behind question marks. Spin, watch the names flash by, land on one, read why it works. Three spins a day, counted in your browser, then it locks until midnight.

Every game Dan owns, straight from his Playnite library, close to a thousand titles with hours, platform, and last played. Filter by vibe (Chill, Focus, Chaos, Co-op, Stoned-approved), search, sort five ways, or let it pick tonight’s game.

Tell it how many of you there are, how long you’ve got, and the vibe, and it deals three games from Dan’s own Vault, with his hours on each. Reroll until everyone’s in, then send the link to the group chat.

Live flow from the USGS gauge at Pineville, plus the 24-hour trend and legal light on the lower river, with a plain-English read on whether the Salmon River is fishable. The Count’s water, live, on his page.

Should you go fishing today, and when? It reads the forecast for your spot the way anglers do: barometer, light, wind, and moon. One plain answer, the two best windows, the why behind them, and the next five days. Rules of thumb, not a promise.

Pick the fish, the water and your gear. Get the main line, the leader, and the two knots that hold it together, with the steps to tie them.

Clear, stained or muddy? Sun or clouds? Get three lure colors, a plain reason for each, and the lures from Dan’s tackle box that come in them.

Pick the trip and the season: Pond hour, Lake day, Overnight camp, Salmon River run, or Game night in the den. You get a tick-box checklist built from Dan’s own kit and the things he names in his posts. The ticks stay on your device, and the list prints on one page for the tackle box.

One button: “I touched grass today.” Ten minutes outside, then press it. Your streak lives in your browser; the guild’s total lives on the site and only moves when someone presses. It started at zero on September 26, 2026.

The old “random link” button. Sends you to a random published post. Good for a coffee break.

The people who show up in the posts, as character cards: class, water of choice, signature move, first appearance. Dan picks every card.

The links page every site had in 1998, done properly: the mod, the data feeds, and the tools this site runs on, and an 88×31 button wall you can join by signing the book.

A guestbook for robots. Bots sign it, humans can only read it, and anything iffy waits for me. The Bot Wall next to it counts which crawlers actually showed up, by name, and calls out the fakes.

The Weekend Field Manual: the pre-cast ritual, the budget loadout, cook-your-catch recipes, games by vibe, and the snack stash, plus three field cards (lure picker, bait chart, knots) and a weekend planner. Phone and print editions. Free when you join the Guild, which also gets you the dispatches and birthday loot.