My name is Frank, I live in the north east (New Jersey). I am currently in the military. I have been smoking kilbasa once a year for about 3 years. It is a yearly thing my friends and I do and fill in for each other threw our deployments. We tried making our own updight smoker. It works but as I get more into it and learn more I see our issues ( there are many. LOL). I am about to purchase the Brinkman TrailMaster as my first personal smoker. Which is how I found your forum, while doing research. People seem to like it for the price as a start up smoker. I also try to hunt and fish as much as possible and have found many recipes for smoking game and fish. I recently came across a couple on this forum for chilian sea bass and smoked oyster that sound funomimal. That is why I decided to join the forum. Everybody seems very knowledgeable and willing to offer advise to newbies ( I will need often). That just about covers it.