I found this site when I was 41, so I have been posting for 5 years. Let me tell you a little about my history of the site. When I first joined there we much more discussion of spots and fishing forecasts. Plug building and rod building. That winter there was some high school kid that pissed off the whole site membership, he left and started his own site. I meet Steve from Mass that year and took him fishing on my boat. He kind of scared me at first. He looked like a homeless guy because he had been fishing for 3 days straight. He turned out to be very nice and I think he had a real good time. Went to TFCTF that year and met JohnR, Bluecrab, ChrisL, and others It was very fun. Seemed to be a lot of bikers in the club my wife said. The next year Mr.Macy was the king of posts. I have a lot of respect for him, he turned his life around and is doing well. I remember he got hassled in Newport about docking his boat and his sister runs a B&B there. He is honest and open and I enjoyed watching his success grow.Also that was the year of Notoros first post which had a picture of him gutting a undersized striper over a sink. He was roundly criticized for that and turned out to be quite cool and popular Year 3 I spent the summer running charters out of Point Judith on my boat. I got really good at finding striper's and did 3-4 charters per week. It was a great experience and a have a few very funny stories to tell around the campfire. Year 4 Moved the boat back to Newport. Took Clammer fishing to Southwest ledge it was hot and %$%$%$%$ty I caught one striper after a few hours in the hot sun. Clammer decided to see if he could get me to crash my boat on some rocks under Southwest Light. I wince every time I think about it. Year 5 did not fish much gas too high. Overall I have really enjoyed the site and the members. And look forward to this year.
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