HI:
I grew up in So. Cal, fishing as often as I could. ended up moving to Oregon in 2001. I love Saltwater fishing and I have fished the west coast from Cabo to Bristol Bay AK, as well as Hawaii. I still have my first saltwater reel that I bought at Gemco in 1982 its a Daiwa Sealine 50H and I still take it out halibut and lingcod fishing. This reel is proof that good reel maintenance really matters, I do my own reel service every year on every reel I own, it almost like a therapy session for me :). Anyways, looking forward to sharing and learning from the folks on this board.
Best
Mark
Welcome from salem va,,,,,,,, ;D
Welcome Mark from South Australia Kim
Welcome, whereabouts in Oregon do you call home.
Welcome from Philadelphia Mark!
You will like it here!
Sal
Welcome Mark.
Welcome from West Michigan!
Welcome aboard!
Welcome aboard, Mark!
Best, Fred
Hi from the east side of Oregon.
Mark!
Welcome!
Where in Oregon did you land?? I-5 Corridor, Eastern side, North or South??
I was in Bend, OR for the Aug. 2017 total eclipse, LOVE the area will be heading back again next summer.
Wayne
Mark welcome from Cape Town South Africa
Regards
AC49
Welcome Mark from the SoCal Inland Empire - john
Welcome! 8)
Welcome. Dominick, San Mateo, CA
Welcome from Northern Vancouver Island !
Cheers:
Todd
Welcome Mark, from Sunny Western Australia, cheers Don.
Welcome Mark,
Brett from AZ, GEMCO..Wow thats a name I haven't heard in a long time ;D...Used to love that place.
Enjoy the ride here.....
Greetings - from the UK
Welcome aboard, from slug and duck country....aka the great Pacific Northwest
Greetings, 626, from Minnesota.
Like Brett said, GEMCO brings back a lot of memories. Another big store from AZ in the late '70s - early '80s was FedMart.
Frank
Thank you for the warm welcome. A little more detail about were I call home, I live in Beaverton Oregon, I do not own a boat, I have a few friends that have boats and I go out on Charters often. My favorite bottom fishing charter is Dockside charters out of Depoe bay. For Albacore I like going out on Shake & Bake Sportfishing and Mark Youngblood sport fishing out of Ilwaco Washington. For salmon and Halibut, I go out on my buddies boats anywhere from Newport to the Colombia river.
I also take trips out of San Diego Ca and Long Beach every few years and my new favorite is Cedros Island. My first trip to Cedros was last August. and I have another trip planned for Next August.
Mike and Mark run good boats. Do you go to OCEAN's Saltwater Sportsman Show in Salem.