Tip o' the hat, Gordon, very kind of you.

Just joining the forum. I'm FrenchieQ (because I'm French Canadian and my last name obviously starts with W....ok, Q). I haven't really fished for the last 35 years for lots of reasons. Been retired 10 years now and decided to put my motorcycle on the market and get me a yacht, my Twin Troller X10 (TwinTroller.com). I'm from central Jersey so most of my fishing will be around the various lakes and reservoirs there. Any help on best spots, especially for bass and crappie would be appreciated (and if you don't want to give away any secret spots, send me to the bad ones, I'll never know the difference). Looking forward to becoming a better fisherman and conservationist.

Thanks, good advice already. I think early on my best buds will be YouTube, Google and the forums. I'm sure I'll meet some future fishing buddies when I'm actually fishing.

I haven't caught a fish in so long I wouldn't know if it was a fish bite or skeeter bite. Looking forward to learning much on the site. I'm a newbie to both the site and fishing. Last time I fished was about 35 years ago. I plan on getting me one of them Twin Troller X10's for some small lake fishing in NJ. Never fished on a boat on fresh water. I'm retired now and have some time on my hands so decided I wanted to enjoy fishing again.