I want to start off by saying thanks to everyone for the well wishes. I am very excited about this new endeavor. I figure after 8+ years at my last job (paralegal), 9+ at the prior job (truck driver) and not really going anywhere, this was the right time to move onto something new. I have been at the helm for 3 weeks now, and it has been an eye opening experience to say the least. I have a ton of respect for those that came before me (Tim, Zach & Dave) in the Mystic office and plan to keep up the high standards that I have come to expect from the magazine as a long time reader and subscriber. I am really looking forward to the new opportunities the position will afford me as I will be taking a crash course in many new styles of fishing and target species that I just didn't previously have time for.
Sandman - Stay tuned for some much needed, and long overdue digital options from the magazine shortly. That was one thing I was very happy to find out was already in the works.
If anyone has any ideas, suggestions, critisisms or anything else of the magazine and/or the job I am doing, I want to hear them all. I really want to bring some new blood to the magazine too, so I encourage anyone that has ever thought about writing to email me at
tlapinski@thefisherman.com.