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:

You‘ll know me, know how I earn a livin’. I’ll contribute to this board, but it ain’t gonna be easy. Like a badass fluke. Not like goin down to the pond chasin’ bluegills or Tommy Cods. This board, swallow ya whole, little shakin’ little tenderizin’, down ya go…………
It’s not gonna be pleasant, I value my neck a lot more than two plugs chief. I’ll dabble for two but I’ll stop being a lurker and opine for ten. You gotta make up your minds. Do ya wanna stay alive and ante up or do ya wanna play it cheap and be bored on fishin’ withdrawl welfare all winter.
I don’t want no volunteers don’t want no mates, there’s too many captains on this board.
10 plugs for me by myself. For that you get the sarcasm, the weak attempts at humor, the whole damn thing.
Mr. Mayor,… Chief…….Ladies and Gentlemen
Capt ThomCat aka “that Fluke guy”

oh no its thomcat! I'll throw in a plug if he sticks around :D

yep
 

Notaro is a lurker now too :wave:

I think a couple people offered plugs to keep him away :hihi: :rotf3:

TC - Welcome to S-B


Hi Les - yeh, yer in....

welcome TC
 

here's your AV too http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c66/ravenob1/TC.jpg

welcome aboard thomcat :wave:

ok... got me.
First post.
Moved to the MA South Shore last year. New job. Fished RI, SoCo for years, surf. Grew up there.
Have been hunting for shore fishing between Duxbury and the Cape.
But still travel to RI in the fall. As the Id implies, I fish, and I golf in Western MA. Each cuts into the time of the other... not a bad problem to have. Hoping stay more local for both the golf and the fishing this season.

Thanks:wavey:
Happy New Year to everyone

Wow....witty stuff Thom...that's refreshing....

I am not a lurker but I have just started to post after a long absence.

I live in the SF Bay area but I hail from New York. I am an ardent fisherman and fish, on the average, about once a week. All my fishing is either in the ocean or in SF Bay. My favorite fishing is for salmon but I also go for halibut, tuna, sturgeon, rockfish (we call them rock cod but they are not the same as your cod), sandabs (when nothing else is open), and dungenness crabs (which are open now).

For my first 20 years living here the only fishing I did was when I went back east to visit family, which was twice a year. These visits were always the highlight of my year. I would fish with my brothers in law Rob and Sal. Most of what I knew about ocean fishing I learned from them. Bluefish, stripers, cod, fluke, and tuna in the summer and big stripers in October. About 6 years ago my wife reminded me that there is an ocean where we live and I should try to get out fishing here.

Out here there a fishing bulletin boards like this one. I posted that I was interested in going out and I got some replies; and so my career as a recreational fisherman in California began.

Out here we have a program that is called hitch hikers. A hitch hiker is a person that either does not own a boat or has a boat out of commission and wants to get out on the briny. The program works very well seeing that the costs of fishing are great and only getting greater. Hitch hikers share the cost of the trip (splitting gas, bait, ice and any other fees ,like launch fees) with other members of the crew. They also assist, when called upon, to run the boat and of course help with the boat cleaning when the trip is finished. The relatiionship between the hitch hiker and the captain can be ongoing or just for that trip, you know how that goes. I am a hitch hiker and have been one all the time I have fished out here.

Well that is about it except to say that if you are in the area let me know. If you have any questions about fishing on the west coast PM me.

Thanks for listening.

I'm in!:bounce:

Starting out as a kid with a snapper pole on the Great South Bay, moved up to a zebco...until I was 6 was living for fishing...then got into other sports and didn't get called back to the water until 1999- at that time I was stuck in an office, hating it, and dreamt about escaping from the computer and the meetings and fishing until I finally did it- quit and swore I would do nothing but fish until I got sick of it, and work just enough to keep the ball rolling until that point....that had a momentum all its own, the hypnosis of day after day night after night on the water, building rods, trying to learn the craft, trying to put in time on the water...the spell didn't break until the end of 2002 on the rocks of Rhode Island- just felt like I was free to go on and do other things...not so much as a breakthrough but a realization...these days, don't get on the water as much as I would like, so I am trying to focus on the more analytical side of fishing- analyzing my logbooks, doing more research on fish behavior, patters, etc... nerdy stuff, but I'm into it.

I saw the link to this board a few weeks ago when I was looking at Mike Laptew's blog and signed on...happy to be aboard!

I prefer to be referred to as a selective poster.

I'm in.

Generally fish the Great South Bay and Fire Island, fly and spin, love both. Followed a link from Mike Laptew's blog here two weeks ago, now posting for the first time here, look forward to participating, I've viewed a few threads, look forward to contributing where I can!

:hihi:

Welcome to S-B folks :btu: ...

Lessee, when should I pick some names ?? :huh:

hey ERICM
 

we love the NERDY stuff.... here! :claps:

welcome to S-B

Not trying to be a lurker, but what can i add to your knowledge from the desert that you could use? if you want day by day temps you would burn me in effigee before spring and pity me in summer. Me, I'm just counting the days till VACATION and its Hull Ma. here i come. Fish take warning. I have charts on the wall for planning the best use of my time on the water.

Yes, I am a lurker also. This past season was my first serious attempt. I prefer fly fishing, but also like to fish light tackle with a preference of soft plastic baits. I have been fishing primarily out of Westport River and Harbor. I have learned some good information from this site. Thanks.

Thanks for the warm welcome Raven, glad to be aboard here. As for the nerdy stuff, does it make sense that the farther away from the water I am, everything gets more complicated, while when I'm on the water for a consistent period of time, everything starts to simplify...tackle bag gets smaller, amt. of gear carried gets smaller, and quite honestly the amount of time for thinking about all the different variables and factors imacting the fishing and tinkering with gear just disappears, to the best of my recollection...

No lurking from me... first time here... some will recognize the name... others will recognise man behind future posts.....(or maybe the Avatar)

welcome to S-B
 

rockfish9

glad your here

Welcome to S-B guys....



When you come to Hull let us know, maybe a few of us will take ya fishing