Hello everyone and thanks for having me aboard. I was born and raised in East Texas but I have lived in the Baton Rouge LA area for the past 36 years. I am 65 and searching earnestly for that elusive finish line. I grew up fishing out of the back of my dad's 14-foot Monark back when Toledo, Rayburn, and Livingston all still had green, standing timber. I have been a lurker for about a year now and have come to really enjoy posts that many of you write. I have been out of fishing long enough that reading posts here make me feel a bit like Rip Van Winkle and I am beginning to think that most of my lures should be taken out of my tackle box and put in a shadow box. My screen name comes from my profession, I am sort of like a health care worker but for machines instead of people. Most running machinery vibrates; I can record the vibration with a computer and separate the frequencies to determine what is wrong and how long before I think it will crash. I have lots of questions to post in the near future and hopefully, all ya'll can help drag me out of the stone age.

Thanks again for having me,

Shakey Dave