[Swimmer]

My name is Frank. My board name is swimmer, because I fall off of peoples boats and have to swim back to the boat that is drifting away. Right Jul's. I started fishing for stripers when I was about 11 or 12 years old. I didn't catch any then. It took severals years after that to manage my first one, but it has been a love affair ever since.
Since I narrowed my outside interest down to fishing ( no more golf, no more hunting) my lovely wife or 23 years puts up with just about everything I do pertaining to the sport. I don't know about the rest of you, but I can't pass by too many tackle shops before I have to satisfy an urge to buy something new, a plug, a different color bucktail for a fly or a box of hooks to tie the fly on.
As a kid we were very lucky in that our family had a summer place in Eastham about 300 feet from the bay. Spent many nights watching the target ship getting bombed by the weekend warriors. Spent many days clamming and running around with my buddies. I developed a deep love and appreciation for all water related activities, (watching young ladies in small bathing suits, partying every night) like surfing and fishing. I used to see guys walking off the oceanside beaches at night with huge bass slung over their shoulders.
My favorite moment fishing so far was placing first in the Marthas Vineyard SB & Bluefish derby in 1985 with the largest bluefish from shore caught by a non-resident, 17.60 lbs., that I caught ...............oops. But the best and greatest fishing is yet to come. Thats where I met J.R., on the Vineyard, the first year he stayed with Baitcaster and Jul's.
I do have one other passion and thats staring down someone who is trying to tell me I can't park where I am parking because the road is supposedly private and I am alledgedly tresspassing.

It is better to have fished and lost than never to have fished at all. "me"