...And traffic has been light recently. Late fall through early spring are usually “slow” anyway, unlike FR, where our “masters” in DC and elsewhere come up with new outrages daily, regardless of season.
A couple of the senior / premier members on FT have died off, and I don’t think the management has put much effort into keeping the site hopping, so to speak. In hindsight, I’d say someone should have put some effort into seeing what kept other sites busy, and tried to emulate that. Ditto for looking at what posts / vids on media like You Tube get lots of activity. And so on. But, that said, if all 60 sites are going down, then there are obviously “wider” problems.
“WaybacK Machine”/Archive.org has a lot of the pages but not all on every date...they archived the most pages in 2022:
https://web.archive.org/web/sitemap/https://www.fishingtalks.com/action-rods-21573/