ob is the publisher of StriperSurf.com but most of all loves being the Chief Field Tester, a ready excuse to go fishing! A surf fisherman from his early youth, he primarily "hunts" for striped bass but has caught various saltwater species on the East, West and southern coastal waters of the United States as well as on other Continents and Islands. Bob is one of those infamous night surf fishermen but occasionally can be seen during daylight in the Mantoloking to Island Beach area of New Jersey. During the summer he hangs out under an umbrella, listening to Yankees games on the kayakers beach at Sea Girt, NJ.
In the late 70's, while working for the Engineered Products Divison of Uniroyal Inc the issue of chloro-fluorocarbon emissions into the atmosphere was already a major concern. Bob was the principal of a small Uniroyal Strategic Business Unit which developed and marketed the first composite rubber and thermoplastic hose to reduce emissions of chloro-fluorocarbon gases in mobile air conditioning systems. That original product has developed over the years into the standard for the global mobile air conditioning industry. Although the patents were assigned to Uniroyal, depriving Bob and his team of millions in royalties he considers it the the most important achievement of his life and his legacy.
During his business career he has lived in Ohio and Texas as well as a twelve year stint in Europe where he was the CEO of a group of seven companies specializing in highly sophisticated engineered components for the Military, Aerospace and Automotive industries. While in Europe he also developed a liking for French Foie Gras, Brie covered with grape leaves and Beef Wellington as long as it was not cooked by an English chef.
Returning to US in 1993 he was recruited by an English conglommerate to turn around a 400,000 sq foot manufacturing operation in central North Carolina. The turnaround was a huge success but when ordered to move the operations to Mexico to reduce labor costs he told his English boss to move it himself and returned to New Jersey. Upon his return North he did a career makeover and became the VP of Operations for a NJ based hi-tech networking and telecommunications hardware company.
He started StriperSurf.com on a shoestring with a pre-Pentium, 66Mhz PC back in 1998, without any training in HTML coding, but with fishing knowledge reaching back to the 1950's.
A very lucky man he married his high school sweet heart, Carole and raised two beautiful girls, Jennie and Melissa who are graduates of the Antwerp International School in Belgium, Villanova University, Lehigh University and NYU. He's proud that both girls married exceptional men who fortunately are not surfcasters. Today is he is the proud grandfather of a boy and girl.
Bob resides in Franklin Park, NJ approximately one hour's drive to the nearest saltwater. He fishes with custom glass and stock Lamiglas graphite rods equipped with Avet, Penn, Fin-Nor Ahab and Van Staal reels. Incredibly over a lifetime of fishing, Bob has never caught a striped bass over 60 pounds!
Articles by Bob D'Amico
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