Last year GoFISHn had 4.1 million pageviews, which is pretty good for a site that's barely two years old.
We went back into the data from Google Analytics to figure out our most popular posts and came up with this top 12 list. We chose the top 12 based on pageviews, but as you'll see below, we also included how many Facebook "likes" each post has to date.
You can see some pretty clear trends here. Big fish, like the Fat rainbow trout, really rule the ratings, and they get the most Facebook likes. Butch Brown's amazing catch of largemouth bass ("five bass, 65 pounds) was by far the biggest viral hits of the year. But folks also like oddball stories, like videos/11505-garrison-keillor-on-carp-vasectomys-the-answer” />Garrison Keillor's hilarious skit on carp vasectomies and cyclops sharks. Pretty angler girls also attract attention, predictably enough.
But the post we're most proud of is #3, from Bubba Bedre, who documented efforts to rescue alligator car stuck in the shallows during the Texas drought.
We hope you'll enjoy this trip down GoFIShn's 2011 memory lane.
Story Pageviews Likes
Fat Idaho rainbow trout 11, 943 349
Bald Eagle catching salmon 7,347 322
Texas drought impact on gar 6,476 688
Keillor on carp vasectomies 5,988 145
World Record striped bass 5,860 280
Five bass, 65 pounds 5,761 1,000+
Extreme Huntress 5,460 318
Cyclops bullshark fetus 4,652 245
Best Texas big bass lures 4,516 123
Hammerhead boat crash 4,301 372
30 foot sea monster 4,218 (tie) 347
World record albino catfish 4,218 (tie) 700
Biggest fish British woman 3,928 600
