NJFishing.com Celebrates 20 Years!!!

[Art Berkman]

Congrats Gerry! See ya Bill

[FASTEDDIE29]

This is the best fishing site in NJ! The best fishermen on the east coast belong to this site and if they don't belong they're NJF lurkers, LOL!

Friends, I've made a ton! Memories, we've made alot and I've only been a member for 9 years! WOW!!! I think this sites made me a happier person because of the awesome people and personalities I've met through the years!

MEET-N-GREETS, Ice party's, NJF holiday party's, Fluke fishing fundraisers, PUOSU, river clean ups, you name it! So much goes on here that is simply for the good of humanity! I feel this site brings people together! I'm happy I found this site 9 years ago while trolling on the internet! Thank you Cap'n Gerry and AndyS and all involved! Cheers to 20 more years! Cheers to the NJF brotherhood!

[AndyS]

It's SO bittersweet, Looking back at the old message board and seeing Life's a Beach and Ms Gold, it saddens me so much. The brutal fights in the winter with LAB just flat out roasting people, it's a wonder anyone stuck around !
Funny thing was, I think Mike's antics projected a kind of unsettled peacefulness among the crazy world in which we live. It was for the love of the sport that drew us to the new website.
You can visit the old message board on the "way back" internet time machine.
https://web.archive.org/

Moving through the years I was reading so many Raritan bay reports and very few offshore canyon reports. I thought wouldn't it be nice if I could arrange a few offshore trips and get some of these guys off the bay and show them the waters of the canyons. It happened, and I think I ruined a few people along the way. The look on a persons face when they latch into that 1st yellowfin is priceless !!!

The website got me in touch with a gents I fished with back on the old Gambler, how cool was that !!

Amazingly enough Gerry reached out to me to be the moderator for the freshwater section, honored and never looked back.

I always say, posts bring more posts. If it hadn't been for NJF I would have never hooked up with what has become a very dear friend of mine.
I read a post from someone fishing the North Branch near Rt. 206. I thought, hey that is right around the corner from me. A few PM's later and we have been great friends every since. I can't begin to tell you how many great people I have met (and became friends with) along the way thanks to this website. It gets tough making new friends as you get older but we can easily find common ground here.
Don't know how many years I have been hanging around here, probably since the day my wife said "hey, you can read fishing reports on the internet"

Thanx again to Gerry and everyone who made this possible. Congratulations and cheers hope you have another 20 more years.

[FASTEDDIE29]

It's about the people and sometimes the fish!!! LOL! OHHHHH, I have plenty of pics..........
Salmon country M-N-G at Seth's, NY


Fall kayak adventure on Greenwood in late fall, ohhhh boy! It was blowing 40 this day!!!


Ice M-N-G @ Monksville! Yep, Thats the Shrimpman in the background. He wouldn't step on the ice but I believe his dog did, hahaha!


Our fearless leader and owner of JJ Bittings out on the ice for a 2015 M-N-G...


Sir Lard Almighty, Liveitup1.75 and myself attending the Raritan borough Trout contest! 1st, 2nd and 3rd belonged to NJF.....


My co-captain and life long fishing partner!!!

[Wilson]

Whatever happened to 1.75 anyway ?
Nice post FE

[Down Deep Sportfishing]

Congrats Gerry

[icebadger]

god bless gerry congrats on 20 years. i would like to say it is an honor to be part of njf .com brotherhood this site is great tight lines to all

[Duffman]

Man O Man!!!! 20 years !!! Wish I can remember when I made my first post way back when.

Was a young punk kid with no clue back then. Now I'm an old fart with a little more knowledge but still a major hack!

NEVER fished offshore until coming here. Andy putting those NJF trips together had me land my first YFT, mahi, and become a swordie connoisseur..

Learned some good drinking habits as well (Bulleit) love looking at bad hats (HA) never smile in a pic (HFR). Swallops, Halloween striped bass fishing masks, Bow monkey on the TNT, rubber chicken, "good job" posts and the list does on.

Oh yeah and trolling clam umbrella rigs.

Thanks Big Z!!!

[jcstriper1]

Congrats on a great site!AND MANY MORE

JC

[Lard Almighty]

Nothing is supposed to last 20 years on the internet. And yet, here we are, going stronger than ever with no signs of slowing down. This community has changed my life with the knowledge I've gained, the adventures I've taken, and especially the friends I've made. We should all be proud of the community we've built here, and we owe a lot to Gerry for keeping it all together, knowing when to bust balls right alongside us, and knowing when to drop the hammer before things get too out of control. But even after feathers get ruffled and threads get locked, in the end we are all united by our love of fishing, and I believe that is what makes this place so special. From first-time posters to the oldest of old salts, we are all members of one of the greatest fishing communities ever conceived.

To Gerry, all our mods past and present, and all the people behind the scenes who keep this boat afloat, thank you, and congratulations on 20 years. I can't wait to see what the future holds, and I can't wait to experience it alongside all of you.

See you on the next adventure!