What a nice thing for you to do Dave, getting everyone, or at least a few of us together speaking about ourselves briefly and our common interest, fishing, in a more lengthy manner. I started salt-water fishing when I was ten at a small stream called herring Creeek nearby my parents cottage in Eastham. I never really caught anything but horseshoe crabs, but invariably every night one of the adult fishermen would toss me a striper to take home because they like my doggedness at trying I guess. I will say this about that Zebco 202, pushbutton reel, it took a beating and kept working. Anyways it wasn't till I was twelve and fishing with seaworms that I was lucky enough to catch about a twenty incher at Coast Guard Beach in 1963 not ten feet from shore, which is something I never forgot and holds true to this day, and that is that most stripers are right in the whitewater chasing the bait.
Since 93 I have been going to school and will have my post-graduate degree in the spring, which is to say that from then on my free time will again be devoted to the one sport I cherish, salt-water fishing and chasing stripers aroundd. Best wishes everyone and tight lines, Moon.