Why won't my bot connect to the irc?

Whenever I run the program I don't get any information back from the server I connected to and also when I check the irc room my bots name is not there. Anybody know why? I am new to using sockets and this is my first project dealing with sockets. Sorry if its an obvious mistake.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;

namespace ConnectIRC
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string ip = "asimov.freenode.net";
            string nick = "NICK James10113"; //Nick name for bot 
            string join = "JOIN #Chataholics";//channel to join
            int port = 6667;

            const int recvBufSize = 8162;
            byte[] recvbBuf = new byte[recvBufSize];
            //stores the nick
            byte[] nickBuf = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(nick);
            //Stores the room join
            byte[] joinBuf = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(join);

            Socket conn = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp);
            conn.Connect(ip, port);


            for(;;){
               byte[] formatter = new byte [conn.Receive(recvbBuf, recvbBuf.Length, SocketFlags.None)];
               Console.WriteLine(Encoding.ASCII.GetString(formatter));
               if (formatter.Length == 0)
               {
                   conn.Close();
               }
            }

            IPEndPoint serverEndPoint = new IPEndPoint(Dns.Resolve(ip).AddressList[0], port);
            conn.Connect(serverEndPoint);



            //Sends the nick and join
            conn.Send(nickBuf, nickBuf.Length, SocketFlags.None);
            conn.Send(joinBuf, joinBuf.Length, SocketFlags.None);








        }
    }
}