Good morning guys and gals, figured I'd stop lurking and start participating on this fine forum.  I started fishing at a young age and after a several year hiatus I'm back at it, with gusto. In 2013 my son was born and my kayaks and fishing gear went into hibernation, averaging less than an outing per year until last year.  Now I have a new fishing buddy, and I value time on the water more than ever.  Favorite places to fish would be Briery Creek Res. Sandy River Res. and the middle James River from Scottsville down to Robious landing.  For a little background: I was lucky to have a dad that took me fishing and we spent a lot of time on our 17' Alumacraft, mostly around the Appomattox River, Swift Creek, Lake Chesdin and a few other spots down our way.  In the early 2000's I was introduced to the trophy fisheries around Farmville, and after that, the glorious fighting Bronzebacks of the non-tidal western part of the James River.  After falling in love with fishing skinny waters, I discovered kayaks as way of getting around and 20ish years later it's still my favorite way to fish.  Back then, most folks hadn't heard of kayak fishing and it was all DIY which really appealed to me.  Finding the Fishyaker forum by John Oast out of Norge, VA and the 7 or 8 regulars on there helped fuel my fire tremendously.  One guy was Luther Ciphers, who went on to create YakAttack.  I remember when he made the first generation visipole and was lucky enough to test one of the first in that line.  Luther started having get-togethers off rt. 307 the year kayak bassing basically exploded.  The best way to get better at something is spend time with people who are better at it than you are, and hanging with these guys really upped my game.  Same reason why I am here today: to gain the knowledge you fine folks are willing to share and hopefully help a few out along the way.  I recognize a name or two from the old KBF forum on here, that's pretty cool.  I went by JimW on fishyaker & kbf, the "kayak" was implied on those forums haha...  Anyways enough about all that, Tight Lines everybody and lookin forward to talking bass

Hello Jim and welcome to Bass Resource ~

A-Jay

Hello and welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum

Welcome aboard! Found this to be the most useful forum back

when I was on several boards.  

Hi Jim - lots of central VA guys on here, especially around Richmond.  I've been 'displaced', but am originally from Bedford County.  Briery Creek is one of my favorite reservoirs to fish; I was planning to spend a long weekend there early April before all this COVID business.

Welcome!

Welcome. Wonderful having you on the Forum.

Keep us posted on your adventures.

Welcome!

Thanks for the warm welcome!  Now I just need to catch something photo-worthy...?   Last two trips were dinkfests

Welcome home! We're glad you're here.