New Ifisher

[BendFishMan]

Hello all. I am new to Ifish and thought I would tell you all a bit about myself.

I have been fishing most of my life, mostly lake fishing (trout, kokanee etc.). Just recently I had an itching to spend time fishing for salmon.

After several unsuccessful trips, I decided to take a charter out last July. Every year my wife, child (now children) and I spend a week in Rockaway for her family reunion. So I figured I would invite some of the in-laws to join me on an excursion out to sea for coho. Altogether 7 of us made reservations to go out.

As soon as the crew had dropped the lines, fish-on. I must have reeled in 5 or six fish that day. Most of the fish caught that day where wild coho which had to be thrown back, I would say about 20 fish had been reeled in that morning. My father in-law and I limited out first thing in the morning, and we had to do everything in our power to not grab the poles that were going off(I would say he and I had the most excitement). My limit included 1 coho and 1 chinook, who would have thought my first time catching salmon I would get 1 of each.

We set off out of Garibaldi, and had the best crew you could imagine. The crew was just as excited about us catching fish as we were. Considering what had happened a few weeks before we went out, this crew was moving on with life!

[Chromaflage]

A huge welcome to my cousin, BFM!!!! Took you long enough :grin:

Your free gift, as my cousin and new iFish member - free lifetime membership in Team Cast and Blast. :grin: Maybe one day you'll come fishing with me again.

Welcome aboard, cuz!!

ORS

[Boatdog]

BendFishMan,

Welcome!!!! I suppose you're from Bend? and Fish?, and are a Man? Duh! :grin: ...

and WOW! A lifetime membership to the FAB THREE?!!! er,........four! I'm sure in a year there will be five................. HUNDRED! [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img]

ORS is a great guy I met through Ifish, and I'm sure you'll meet many great people, too.

BTW: Where's Skahorse? :whazzup:

[Chromaflage]

BD - 500???? think not! :grin: And, about skahorse?


Remember?

ORS

[BendFishMan]

ORS - thanks for the membership, and welcome !

BD - Thanks for the welcome, and I am sure if I can ever get out of my house I will meet more Ifishers. My wife and I have a 6 week old daughter and a 3 year old boy - needless to say the weekends consist of giving my wife a little break.

[shalom]

Welcome aboard.

[Beerbelly]

Welcome!! [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img]

[SafetyChain]

BFM,

Welcome to ifish and TCAB. But your not really a TCAB member until you annointed with an officiallly licensed, specially embroidered t-shirt courtesy of your cousin, aka our tight wad founder, ORS :grin: Maybe if you offer to help pay for his furnace

But seriously, welcome

[Chromaflage]

Well, now you've met the smarta$$ (oh, I guess we all are) of the bunch! :grin: I will forever curse the rod with which you fish, SC!! :grin:

ORS

[ 01-26-2004, 10:14 AM: Message edited by: OregonRedside ]

[Sore Back]

Now that you have experienced the salmon thing, you will have to come back to try your luck at clams and crabs too.

Welcome to our family of I-fishers, and I-crabbers and I-clammers.

[Blazerboy]

Welcome to the greatest place on earth, you will really enjoy the people and info on this site

[SHOUGALNITE]

Welcome :smile:

[Chromaflage]

TCAB - OregonRedside, Skahorse, Boatdog, SafetyChain, BendFishMan - we'll hit that 500 mark in no time...heck if I made to 1000 posts in four months, who knows what we can do with this. Time for a bigger boat! OK, everyone pony up $6k and we'll get the offcial TCAB vessel! Ready, set!

BD - let's borrow that sturgeon strectcher from Sturgeon 42 and let's see if it works on your boat!

Ska - just assumed all you guys were in it for the long haul. :grin:

ORS

[TillamookChinook]

Welcome to IFish. Lots to learn here and lots of opportunities to contribute.

TC

[SafetyChain]

I will forever curse the rod with which you fish, SC!!

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">I tried to come up with something good here about my rod, but it just wouldn't sound right :grin:

6K, that just would not be enough. We would need the boat, shed, tractor, furnace, generator and amps. Not to mention the neon sign

[Chromaflage]

Easy on the tractor stuff :grin:

[SteelieSlammer]

welcome aboard

[SafetyChain]

Hey BD- think that little tug we saw would work as the TCAB vessel?

[Boatdog]

That looks more cozy than the TCAB challenge vessel. :shocked:

[SafetyChain]

But I bet it comes with a driver from Clatskanie. [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img]

[skahorse]

SC,
They told you about the Tractor? Consider yourself very special. :grin:

P.S. I think we need a tractor too!

--Skahorse

[SafetyChain]

zipperlip :grin:

[BendFishMan]

Woah ! Thanks for all the welcomes, and I dig the humor too.

[ 01-26-2004, 11:11 PM: Message edited by: BendFishMan ]

[Chromaflage]

Yeah - over and over and over and over!

Gotta be careful with these guys....you do something silly once and that becomes your avatar forever. :grin:

ORS

[ 01-26-2004, 09:45 PM: Message edited by: OregonRedside ]

[skahorse]

BTW: Where's Skahorse?

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">I'm here! I'm here! Just extremely busy this weekend(poker and last day of duck :depressed: ) and this week with work...

BFM, Welcome to the board! And Congrats on the Lifetime Membership to Cast and Blast . I don't think I even have that, and I helped ORS start the team up. :shocked: :grin:

Lookin' forward to meetin' ya and gettin' ya into some more salmon!

TCAB: We have 5 members now... Can we all fit in the boat?

--Skahorse

[SafetyChain]

ORS,

Here is your new avatar :grin:

[Chromaflage]

Oh, you are such a funny guy, SC. :grin: You forgot the old man who drove it, though.

ORS

[BendFishMan]

I have a feeling tractors are a sore spot for the ole cuz ! ??