I will take a shot at that and let Joe add or correct any errors.

Joe Reynolds has lived in Ocean Pines for about 35 years. He is an avid salt water fly fisherman and is on the water quite often during the fall run of striped bass.

During his long career in writing and photography, he was an active member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America and served on the association's Board of Directors.

After a successful career as a fulltime freelance writer and photographer - including an eight-year stint as eastern editor for "Field & Stream" - Joe now devotes all his time to managing the Outdoors Network on the internet. Reynolds also manages OceanPinesForum.com. for which he received the Ocean Pines Chamber of Commerce Business Of The Year award. He has won numerous awards for his writing and photography, including selection for the coveted Nikon Outdoors Photographers Showcase. Reynolds is a lifelong, avid fly fisherman, and also an enthusiastic upland bird hunter.

Reynolds is one of the pioneers in developing online communities, beginning in 1988 with outdoors related communities on CompuServe. Those communities became some of the most popular on CompuServe until Reynolds left in 2000. He also developed successful communities on The Microsoft Network over a two-year period.

Reynolds and Outdoors Network received accolades and a nomination for the coveted ComputerWorld-Smithsonian Awards for "Heroic Achievement in Information Technology" for creating Outdoor Bytes, a magazine-on-a-disk. A copy of the project is in a time capsule at the Smithsonian.

The State of Maryland selected Reynolds as Travel Writer of the Year. Reynolds also received the Gurney Godfrey Award, presented by the Maryland Fly Anglers, for "Outstanding Achievements and Continued Dedication to Conservation as Related to Maryland Fishing."