New member

Hi all,
 I've only been doing "serious" fishing (i.e., more than a can of worms and a couple of Roostertails) for a few years now and have spent the past year and a half charging around the lakes and quieter bays near Port Townsend in a Sevylor Tahiti inflatable like some sort of maritime Don Quixote. Temporal and fiduciary forces have finally lined up correctly to allow for an upgrade, and I am now the proud owner of a brand new Tarpon160. Don't tell my wife but I think I'm in love! I have a full enough work and home schedule that I probably won't be able to take a maiden voyage for a couple of weeks but am having a blast doing what prepwork and education I can in the meantime. I've found this site to be very helpful thus far. I'm hoping to learn the ropes enough to participate in next year's Discovery Bay Salmon Derby (or whatever they've changed the name to now.)

If you can "charge around" in a Tahiti, you will be flying in that Tarpon    Welcome to the site and get out and get some blood on that yak!

Welcome.  Get out there soon, the salmon are running now.

Nice upgrade.  And don't worry.  When I professed my love for my yak to the wife all I got was a rolling of the eyes.

it wasn't the so much kayak, but the post kayak spending that got me in trouble. and now it's "you went out three times this week!"
so welcome to the addicts club, and good luck

SWMBO usually will only get suspicious if I go out three times in a week and don't bring back any fish to eat.... 

Welcome to the show!  Glad you could join us!  Cya on the water sometime!

Thanks for all the welcomes. I am really looking forward to being able to actually move at a decent speed (and to have a rod holder, FF, etc.) Having a wife who actually loves me more than an inanimate fishing object (not that I haven't been accused being an inamate fishing object before...) has, thus far meant being allowed to spend a little more at the get-go on anything that could remotely keep me safe out there ("really, dear, these Williamson jigs could save my life. They, um, have built-in GPS distress-call capability.") It may be wishful thinking, but I'm hoping that the cognitive dissonance of all the expenditures will work in my favor and make it easier to "justify the purchases" by needing to use them more often.