Exciting new guy joins forum

[Bluefin22']

jacko,

Well welcome. And congratulations on moving up to the real world. As much as I love surfcasting, running a boat is 100x more rewarding. Ask questions and I am sure you will get plenty of great advice. Hope you find this place as rewarding as everyone else.

So have you got anything you wanna know about the offshore game?

[jacko]

[QUOTE=Bluefin22';231500]jacko,

Thanks for the welcome fellas. Unfortunately the tilt motor in my new (to me) boat is busted, so it doesn't look as if I'll get out in it until the weekend. I expected something not to work, kinda comes with the territoy when you buy an old piece of crap. I can entertain myself with the Albies in my little Seaway in the interim.
Trollman, we have to have a smoke together sometime, and Finesse, it's an IO and it's older than the guy selling me the boat told me. I think I'm going to have problems with it.
Bluefin, I don't know if I agree with your statement about the 100x more rewarding thing. Sure, because there is surfcastng, and there is soaking a rotten mackerel from the jetty. To fish a beach like Nauset, one that changes, physically, from season to season and even from tide to tide, reading it, and truly knowing it well enough that a look around can tell you which part of the beach will probably be producing and at what tide. Really knowing and loving a beach like Nauset is a special thing. It requires an intimacy with that entire ecosystem that is hard to even describe. Few people can do it because , as I said the place changes all the time. So you have to be there, a lot. The 100 foot wide cut that was gangbusters on Tuesday may be gone on Thursday. The constant reading of the sand and current, catching big bass on a consistent basis, while trying to keep your footing in a six foot surf. I don't think that takes a back seat to any kind of fishing anywhere. I know it's never boring. One thing it is is way too much work for most people.

[Reel Fanatic]

Jacko-

You've come to the right place to spend your spare time and spare cash. Not only will you find great people here, you will also find great information on when and where to catch them as well as great products on which to spend every last stinking dime you've got. Welcome aboard!