Hi everyone, my names Shaun. Living in Bowmanville now but grew up in Toronto. Spent most of my summers up north around minden (parents cottage) and fished at least every other day until I was about 17. Then work and school (and the teenage not wanting to spend weekends with the family bug) conspired to stop me from fishing.
Flash forward 9 years, I met a great girl and as a bonus her father is a die hard angler. Got my license in 2006 and never went once, 2007 got out twice (planning a wedding seems to equal no fishing) both time post wedding. Now 2008 and I've been bit hard. I went ice fishing and froze my feet off for many hours without a bite, and couldn't wait to do it again, tried some open water creek fishing and nadda too much thin surface ice, then went up to visit my parents and slipped away for several hours and tried the little open water on Horseshoe lake again nothing. You'd think that in spite of all this unproductive fishing my enthusiasm would start to wain. Totally opposite, it's making my desire for my first fish of the season that much greater.
My goal on these forums is to get even half as good as my father in law while having a bunch of fun. I'm realizing getting back into it that there is SO much to learn. Considering my prior experience consisted of a worm on a hook and mepps #3's it's taking a ton of reading to get me up to speed.
So far this year my score is Fish 3 (shutouts), Logs 1 (lure), Me 0 (fish)
Forums looks good and I'll likely be picking everyones brains and contributing where I can.
