Greetings!

[JakeF]

Hello all. Just wanted to drop a post here and introduce myself. I just got off the phone with DarkSkies, and realized that I'd never checked his site out. Well done, Rich! Looks nice!

My name is Jake. I come alive on dark nights in the frothy wash of the New England surf. I can usually be found somewhere along the RI or MA coast, but fish anywhere from NY/NJ to Maine during the course of the season. Nothing warms my blood like a striped 50 in the surf on a dark night

I'm Vice President of Stripercoast Surfcasters Club, and an avid surfcaster, skisher, and kayaker. Striped bass are my quarry, but the vast majority of the fish I catch get to swim away with a kiss on the nose and a story for their girlfriends of the crazy looking dude who unhooked them. (I like that smiley! Can I steal it?)

May your rods be frequently and powerfully bent!
- JakeF

[Stripercoast1]

Well well well, what have we here!
You will notice I came here about a week ago, and you've got some catching up to do!

[JakeF]

Wouldn't be the first time you came early, I'm sure.

[BassBuddah]

Wouldn't be the first time you came early, I'm sure.

God I hope you guys are good friends, them are fighting words! Welcome aboard, Jake.

[JakeF]

God I hope you guys are good friends, them are fighting words! Welcome aboard, Jake.

Haha,, at least you didn't reply with "How do you know that?"
Yah, we bust balls all the time. He can take it

Thanks for the welcome BB!

[cowherder]

Welcome Jake this is a great site, I like it a lot. What is skishing like? How long have you been doing it? Ever get brushed against by any sharks?

[DarkSkies]

I'm Vice President of Stripercoast Surfcasters Club, and an avid surfcaster, skisher, and kayaker. Striped bass are my quarry, but the vast majority of the fish I catch get to swim away with a kiss on the nose and a story for their girlfriends of the crazy looking dude who unhooked them. (I like that smiley! Can I steal it?)

- JakeF

Hey Jake what's up! Great talkin to ya today, you really got things going like a steamroller over there. Thanks for all the effort you put into Stripercoastsurfcasters. It really shows.

Steal all the smilies ya want, we're finally at the stage (tiny site that we are) that a few enterprising empty heads can't think up ideas on their own, and are now coming here to find stuff to post on some other sites. My thread "How I did it: my eel tank" is just one such example.

It's all good, I suppose I should be flattered, but I'm just amused, life goes on.


"Hey DS. What hoops do I have to jump through to get rid of the Guest Welcome message at the top of the page and access to PM's, etc.? "
Jake, the PM permissions are universally set at 25 posts to discourage spammers, you're more than halfway there aready with 15 posts. At the rate you're going you should hit 25 by 9am tomorrow. :

[JakeF]

Thanks DS. By the way,,, I'd be happy send you that Selective Quote plug-in if you want to add it to this forum (and any others I have that you like) Most of them are quite easy to install. (edit: just noticed that your forum is on ver. 3.7.3, so my 3.8.3 plugins may not work here. I can however get you a link to the 3.7.3 versions of them if available)


Did I read that right, that somone stole your eel tank thread?
I hope they at least gave credit to the author and source...

[DarkSkies]

Jake, 1 day after my eel thread was up, someone I used to know somewhere else put up a thread asking "How" to set up an eel tank and asking if anyone had pics of theirs. Maybe coincidence, maybe not, though not important in the big scheme of things.

I'm not so arrogant to think everyting I say is meaningful. Half of my posts probably have no compelling appeal sometimes, I'm only right half the time anyway.

But like we said today, small issues arent worth picking over. I think if you check all the sites out there you'll find the same basic threads, rehashed over and over. It's the nature of the beast, I just roll with it, too busy to worry or care.

Besides, any free time I have is spent fishin, why would I let something petty take me away from the whitewater, right? Thanks for all the advice, you put a lot of nice tweaks in over there, I think the members should really grow to like them.

[JakeF]

I hear ya

Time to go get wet. I have a good feeling this morning.