Hello - Just introducing myself

Hello Everyone!

My name is Mike and with the exception of a few years when I was away at school, I have spent my entire life fishing and pretending I was hunting in the Garden State. Some very good friends of mine told me about the site and I came to check it out. I've spent almost 10 years administering and moderating another fishing site and offered to help the guys here at JPS out while they stretch their wings.

I'll fish for anything that swims and I take it pretty seriously. If I can answer any questions or help anyone out in any way I certainly will. One thing I am not a big proponant of is something that has become known as 'spot burning'. The internet is a big place and generally for every contributing member of any website their are 50 to 100 times that number that just search out reports. You tell 'one' person on the internet where you got them last night and tomorrow there's going to be more people there than you can count. It's just the way it is.

Learn to go out an create reports, don't chase them! Learn how to fish an area through all stages of a tide, then learn another spot. Before you know it you'll have a dozen or more places you can go to if your first destination in occupied. Be courteous. If someone is already in 'your' spot, don't crowd them out. Give them room, or just move on and try to learn a new spot.

We're approaching the beginning of the fall run along our coast. Bird chasers will flock wherever there is a crowd. Fish will be plentiful, learn how to fish, it's much more important than 'where'.

The wife is calling me for dinner now so I'll cut this short.

Good luck, tight lines and I hope to see more folks in my slimy part of this joint.

Thanks Mike...we are looking forward to building the fishing part of the forum

i will vouge that mike knows his stuff when it comes to fishing and computer..lol it will be a learning experience for everyone on the site. and we are glad to have you aboard mike. thanks for helping out.

Welcome Mike

aboard Mike