I'm here :wave: Just started surf casting this past summer as a way to spend some quality Dad time with my son. Another member whose name says it all. I've got a lot to learn still, but I've learned a lot here already. Skunked last year partially due to not being able to put in the time, and partially because I'm clueless:huh:

Hopefully this spring I'll be a little wiser and get the boy into some schoolies early to keep him interested. We spent most of our fishing time on PI last year and I'm starting to know the layout a bit better. Maybe I'll find some fish soon :)

I promise to fish more and post more!!!
If you need fishing reports from Plum Island and the Merrimac River, then check this site out in the Spring for my fishing reports!!!
Happy New Year to All!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Guys,
I've been a lurker here for about a year and I've learned a lot, especially on the plug building thread. I'm originally from LI, live in RI and mostly fish Narragansett. A few guys on this site know me. #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& knows me from the RISAA surfcasters. And I've talked to redcrabbr while fishing at a favorite beach in a town beginning with W. :btu:
Bob J

Hello Gang, My name is Andy and I'm a LURKER!. Did not mean for it to happen but once I started I couldn't stop. Thanks John for calling us ALL out. I have learned a lot from this site. I am a member of a club in CT. I've fished all my life but really got into surfcasting a few years ago. Well I think that's all for now . Besides I'm late for my L.A meeting. (Lurkers Anonomys) :hidin:

New to this site. Live in New Jersey. Post on a few other sites more local to my area. I enjoy all types of fishing. Spend the spring flyfishing for trout and plugging for stripers and blues. The summer drifting for fluke and the fall chasing stripers. The winter is reserved for a few party boat bottom fishing trips and steelhead on the Salmon River. I have fished in Chatham on the cape but was looking around for a place in New England to do a striper trip this june. Any recommendations?

Welcome Lurkers :tooth:

Glad to see you all come onboard and say hello....

Technologist - are you a tech teacher? Or Tech Staff?

Guilty as charged. Some of you guys know me from other boards....to telll ya the truth...I forgot all about this one :smash:

I used to be a shop teacher , now I am a Technology teacher?

Guilty.... I will mend my ways...:hee:

OK - I'm the network manager for a PSD in RI - that's why I asked....


:hihi:

Dang sweetwater guys.....:rolleyes:

Damn,I've got more than 10 posts.Mods,please delete a few so I can win.I wouldn't call myself a lurker,I am just more active on another board,and only recently came back around here.I know quite a few of the guys here,and hope you'll not hold that against me.I mostly fish Soco,R.I.and plan on getting a nice yak over the winter.Thanx for the chance.:pop:

i lurk all the time.

You're not the one who jogs out there - are you? :blush:

I'm in :)

Been here for a little more than a year and its a great site. I'm on the West Coast and am learning to striper fish in the surf. I've been striper fishing in the Delta for 10 years or so and perch fishing the beaches for over 25 years so at least I know how to read water.

This site is so cool to read and learn, but I wish I had more to contribute - I do when I can.

I've been building kit plugs and love it. Next a lathe and bandsaw:hf1: ?

:thanks: to everyone.......

I'm in. I don't post much just like to read and learn from you guys.

I'm In :scatter: , I don't post much.. just enough ;)
I am a novice fishman and started late last year.. didn't catch much but I did learn so much from all of you, the folks at the Canal that are willing to share and also from the guys at RedTop...This year will be different.. My bro and myself will do more fishing (if Wife lets me:splat: ) Thank you all.. please keep teaching... :wiggle:

I admit, I am a Lurker...been on the site about 10 months...read, read, read...and fish, fish, fish...My good friend Jim Sylvester got me into the surf in the fall of 05...been hooked ever since. thanks to all for all of info throughout the year...Best of luck to everyone in 07'

:wave: I lurk therefore I am. This is a good place with lots of solid advice and info that I like to read and absorb. I don't post too much because my home waters are outside of this sites geographical eppicenter, but I do make it up to fish SE Mass at least once a year.

Hi John and all the S-B.Com Members ,,,:wave:

I have been a member here since the spring of "2005" and have been logging on everyday since.. I havn't been too active of a member I guess
since I am a little ways from your core member base here around the New England area.. But I really like the quality of fishing related
talk from some of the best surfcasters and plug makers along the entire Atlantic Coast IMO...

About myself >
Born and raised in Philly,grew up fishing the sweetwater around my hometown of the Fairmont Park area..Moved to New Jersey back in "1983" and have been fishing the surf,jettys and backbays of Central & Southern Jersey since..
I have been a active member of numerous online fishing communities
in NJ since "2000" ,helping out my fellow fishermen and moderating many different fishing forums and still do today and love every minute of it...
And I hope to become more involved here aswell this year....

I have met in person or through the internet some of you from my latest passion of custom plug fishing,, always been a artficial guy but some of the plugs you guys are making today are just awesome and I spend alot of time throwing wood these days...
So I want to say "Thanks" to the likes of John (Habs), Mike (Tattoo) Ryan Smith, Dave (MAC) and Eben for hooking me up with some of your lures, and also Joe Lyons (SRI), Pete (SWE) aswell...

Happy New Year To Everyone And Good Luck Out On The Water In "2007"

YO!!!!!!!

Oh no! Another transient from the RI forum. Welcome.

I'm a Lurker!!
 

Hey John!! Are family members disqualified???

I'm a lurker and I admit it. This is my second post on this forum. I am JohnR's sister and "#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&'s" wife. How many of you feel bad for me???? :bc:

I lurk on the site to read Raven's latest Clammer adventure (HILARIOUS!!!:jester: ), to see the pics of my friends/family and their fish, to read the latest post my husband has put out there, and to find out my brother's "weekend plans". There I said it.....complete honesty!!

I don't read these forums to find out where to fish and how to fish. When I go with Billy, he puts me right on the fish with the bait/tackle I need and shows me what to do. How's that for service!!

Now let me get back to obscurity and lurking!!:cputin:

Leslie :angel:

:tooth: No. Walking that beach is enough exercise for me! :tooth:

DOOMED!
Past the point of no return for you now.
Next you're going to start seeing potential turning stock everywhere.

Some of us are afraid to post ... just lurking at the Plug Building section has cost me hundreds if not thousands of dollars! Oh, I need a mini lathe ... OK. Airbrush & compressor? Sure. Drill press? No problem.

I can not afford to participate anymore. I have spent untold hours looking for (unsuccessfully) this mysterious elixir of life - Val Oil. I guess New Hampshire has an embargo on the stuff!

Thanks for all the information though ... this site is the best.

:wavey: Hey what's going on, ready to catch a few icebergs.

Hi everyone my name is Ben and i love lurking this site.. Im 21and looking to start this upcoming season as a surfcaster.. ive allways fished freshwater and i started to really fish the salt when my best friend bought a boat..22' CC.. We mostly fish anywhere from the Taunton River out to MV, but trips to Chatham, the Sword and the Fingers on nice days for tuna and shark are allways fun.. i bought a lathe to keep busy this winter and i hope to get some plugs finished sometime soon.. the knowledge you guys share on this board alonng with all the "plug porn" keeps me quiet till i can be at your level... I guess we'll see once i turn up tome pencils!!
Thanks guys for a GREAT site!!!
Ben

Guilty as charged, m'lud.
 

(please forgive the slight bit of Brit humor, such as it is....:D )

Very much a (determined) learner, with only a few year's experience following the striped siren, but definitely addicted to surfcasting SoCo RI (at least, as much as possible with a very understanding wife and two small daughters......). Landed up to a 20 lber from the suds in 2006, and previously I have made the aquaintance of a 40 lb cow off the Block, too.

Through this forum and the clubs I have been meeting the characters and getting faces to names (Hi JohnR, Woody et al!).

As to the charge of lurking per se, I have been trying to speak when I have something that I can add - but I've only got a fraction of the experience of a lot of the posters here. And yes, I have been posting even without the lure of the lures!!

Still, all the best to one and all, and April seems a looong way off at the moment........:spin:

[QUOTE=JohnR;446055]I would have to say that maybe someone with less than 50 posts in a year or two is a lurker (sorry Larry - 50 posts a day probably disqualifies you). Someone that posts less than once a week is probably a luker. Someone that has registered but never posts, probably a lurker ;)

Whoah......Now you're puttin' pressure on me. I think I'll stay a lurker. :gu: