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09-23-2020, 07:28 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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13 years since Habs passed
Can it be 13 years? I remember the shock when I came on here and saw the sad news that morning. John was a great guy. Glad I got to know him even just a little bit. I know so many of us will never forget him.....I know I won't.
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Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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09-23-2020, 07:35 PM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,455
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Need to have another Habs Tourney
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09-23-2020, 07:49 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,554
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Time does march on... How old was he? Wasn't in the obit.
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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09-23-2020, 07:50 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nightfighter
Time does march on... How old was he? Wasn't in the obit.
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If memory serves he was 53? |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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09-23-2020, 09:17 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,383
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Thirteen years.
I remember getting the call just after pulling an all-nighter fishing. Joe Martins called.
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~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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09-24-2020, 06:44 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: North Branford,Ct.
Posts: 7,664
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Shocking day. We just got off the Cutty water taxi when we heard the news. Kinda knock down our high from weekend. Have a couple of Johns needles to remember him. Many of us builders found inspirations from John.
One tip I got from John in my early years learning to fish needles. I asked him.how do u keep them up since they sank . John tells me once the plug hits the water come tight ( mpu reel makes this happen quicker) then reel quick to get it up then slow down retrieve, real slow!
To this day I use that tip and advise other new anglers to try this .
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09-24-2020, 07:15 AM
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My brother is bald
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Parts Unknown
Posts: 4,516
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RIP John. I still always have one of his needles with me when I go out.
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seals + plovers = 
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09-24-2020, 02:36 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,899
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One of my best friends. He helped me load a door in my truck 2 days before he passed. I wrote a story entitled Fresh Pond Habs published in The Fisherman.
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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09-24-2020, 02:49 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: North Branford,Ct.
Posts: 7,664
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Paul when was the article written? I would like to look it up in the archives.
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09-24-2020, 03:00 PM
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All up in the Interweb!
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: In the dog house.
Posts: 5,215
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pbadad
Paul when was the article written? I would like to look it up in the archives.
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Here you go, Bill.
https://www.thefisherman.com/article/fresh-pond-habs/ |
Co-Host of The Surfcast Podcast
ASMFC Striped Bass Advisory Panel - Connecticut
"Out there in the surf is where it's at, that's where the line gets drawn in the sand between those who talk fishing and those who live it."
- a wise man. 
One good fish, a sharpie does not make...
Certified rock hopping billy goat.
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09-24-2020, 04:09 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,899
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tlapinski
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Thanks Toby. |
No boat, back in the suds.
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09-24-2020, 05:02 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: North Branford,Ct.
Posts: 7,664
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Great. Thanks T.
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09-24-2020, 06:55 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: South Shore
Posts: 511
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Great article. I'm happy to have a couple of his olive needles.
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09-25-2020, 09:24 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Back to C.Cod x'd Rangeley Me.
Posts: 922
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A 30" black needle hangs above a picture of Flaptail coming ashore in his "tincan" to meet the Professor and myself for lunch on Sandy Neck mounted on my shop wall.
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