Belated intro

[mitch 0]

I have been on the board for about a month now after a subtle hint from Dave Fix to come and look. What a great site as a result of some smart fellas with outdoor experience.

Native of Texas, grew up in the Oregon Cascades and began fly fishing at the belated age of 27. Story goes that my step-father bought me a set of golf clubs for college graduation because “if you’re going to be an officer in the Navy, you gotta know how to play golf.” Four years later when I sold them with the plastic still on the heads, I used the money to purchase my first fly fishing outfit straight from the local Orvis store in Virginia Beach. 8 months later after a home port change, I found myself in the Saltwater’s Edge in Newport, RI asking if they sold any fresh water flies. They said no, then showed me a place on the chart (Brenton’s Reef) to try for striped bass. I left with a couple of flies that seemed huge at the time. Four casts into the suds and WHAMMO, STRIPER ON! That monster took me up one side of the jetty and down the other. Monster turned out to be a 5-lb striper and I got to thinking “I’ve caught plenty of 5-lb Large mouth bass and they never put up a fight like this.” My conversion to the brine began.

After two years of getting an outfit and then continually trading up, I decided to buy the best of what I wanted to stop envying what should have bought. I now reside in Honolul and just returned from my 4th over-seas deployment. I’ll stick around here for another 2 ½ years until it’s time to move again.

My wife is simply amazing and has given us three children: boy (5), boy (soon-to-be 4), and princess (2) to keep us in line and to test my limits of butting-in versus letting them develop into coping siblings

Take care all,

Mitch

 

[Steeldrifter 0]

Mitch you have contributed nicely in the time that you have been here its nice to have you with us.

 

SD

[MIKE*A 0]

Welcome aboard Mitch.................we're still waiting on those bikini pic.s...........

 

 

Mike

[Philly 0]

Welcome aboard. If you ever get to Guam, there some decent fly fishing available from the jetties on the base and some of the local beaches. Also, rumors of large jacks that swim under the lights at night at the piers.

[Guest]

Mitch,

 

Finally a formal welcome. You've already provided lots of info for everyone here on the site. Ain't miltary moves a pain in the a**. Former AF I understand LOL.

 

Again Welcome,

Fatman

 

[Guest]

Mitch - great Bio- gotta laugh at that one! Glad to have you aboard!

 

Philly and Fatman - I copy your last!

 

Philly- wish I'd had my FF gear while on Guam, early Seventies; managed to borrow some stuff from my C.O. (O-6, really cool guy!) once he found out he had a fly fishing "buddy"- didn't take me long to get my gear sent over!!! Did you ever round Orote Point and fish the S.E corner? I'd wade fish and snorkel over there - FANTASTIC! unbelievable schools of the most beautiful fish I've ever seen!

 

We also used to troll Apra harbor and the approaches.

[mitch 0]

Philly and Dave,

I hit Guam for 3 days on our return trip in October. Didn't see any jacks at Club USA. I did however see why my Chief said not to accept an invitation to dance with the ladies up on stage.

The look on that guy's face when she shoved that beer bottle up his .....whoa! Almost forgot there are minors on this board. Disregard folks.

Mitch

[Guest]

Nothing's changed, then - I had two EM's who wouldn't listen...when they were left alone, they did a BAAAAAAAD THING!!

[Philly 0]

Those girls. A lot of them are well under the legal age. I learned to keep away from them back in the late 60's when I was in the Navy. Being allegeric to penecillin made it easy.

I'm not military just work for DLA. I'm one of the folks that make sure the troops get fed. I made about 8 trips to Guam over the last four years. Did most of my fishing along the beaches or the small marina at the back of the navy base. Never did get a chance to hit the beach up at Andersen. Caught mostly small groupers and needle fish. Missed a few small jacks, but the warehouse manager for my vendor kept telling me that the big jacks would swim into the lights when they were loading up ships at night. I was moved to the Japan account last year. Now I'm trying to figure what I can catch at Yokosuka. There's a really long jetty that always has people fishing on it, one of the nationals who works for us tells me they catch a lot of Japanese sea bass which are similar to our stripers. I'm going to give it a try when I head over in April for a food show.