Lurker Incentive Program - Calling All You %#$@& Lurkers

[ThomCat]

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”

[Nebe]

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

[Raven]

Notaro is a lurker now too

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Nebe

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

I think a couple people offered plugs to keep him away

TC - Welcome to S-B


Hi Les - yeh, yer in....

[Raven]

here's your AV too

[jim sylvester]

welcome aboard thomcat

[fishgolf]

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
Happy New Year to everyone

[Joe]

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

[rsk538]

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.

[EricM]

I'm in!

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!

[Slick Moedee]

I prefer to be referred to as a selective poster.

[EricM]

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!

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Slick Moedee

I prefer to be referred to as a selective poster.

Welcome to S-B folks ...

Lessee, when should I pick some names ??

[Raven]

we love the NERDY stuff.... here!

welcome to S-B

[BW from AZ]

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.

[Mad Viking]

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.

[EricM]

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...

[Rockfish9]

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

[Raven]

rockfish9

glad your here

[JohnR]

Welcome to S-B guys....

Originally Posted by BW from AZ

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.

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

[FittyPoundah]

Originally Posted by Rockfish9

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

Whoa! How big did that fish ending weighing in at in the avatar?

[Raven]

Originally Posted by BW from AZ

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.

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BW
well driving all the way to lake mead 200+ miles up highway 93
to catch some striped bass is a long haul im sure....
but it's not so bad if you and some friends split the gas and go as a group.

or you could all chip in and rent a house boat on lake powell too
then you could tell us how some east coast plugs did in your lakes.
there is some huge stripers in lake powell.

[vanstaal]

Capt ThomCat aka “that Fluke guy”

ahoy welcome aboard !!

[Jessejames]

Okay,

You got me,too! I've been lurking here for awhile. I've been surf fishing for about 8 years. I've learned a lot from just hanging around this site and I don't fish enough to feel comfortable as a contributor, but maybe that'll change!

[EricM]

Reeling in the Lurkers one by one...funny...strange feeling to be hooked, its not so bad on the other end of the line after all...

[vanstaal]

it's all about the bait !!

[Rockfish9]

Originally Posted by FittyPoundah

Whoa! How big did that fish ending weighing in at in the avatar?

your screen name + 8

[honeyhole]

Hello, new to this site as of today. A little about myself, fishing for the past 39 years, love fly as well as surfcasting, love making some of my own tackle (rods, flies, bucktails), looking to expand the use of my kayak.

[caumsett]

Ummm, can I delete my huge first post and start all over again ?

[King Neptune]

I'm a worker lurker. I've wasted hundreds of company hours sifting through stuff on this and other sites. It can be a bit tough to post because everyone in the office can see my screen. I think someones looking now!... gotta go!