George Carlezon

[Flaptail]

Slant faced poppers

[tattoobob]

Nice collection, all screw eyes?

those double ended needles would be great for teasers

[Backbeach Jake]

I have a small Carlezon chartreus over white needle thast I bought when Nelson's was upstairs across the parking lot. Wicked fish catcher! I also have a yellow pencil that will never be fished. Never knew the needle was one of Georges until I asked years later.
George dug worms at the same spot I did when I was a very young kid. We exchanged "wisdom" and compared the size of our finds. Great guy, sorely missed...

[mag minnow]

Is this maybe a Carlezon Pencil? Supposedly from the Lower Cape area..Same basic shape as the Pencil shown...

[Sea Dangles]

A treasured morning at Race Point came one morning when a friend named John Haberek introduced me to Old Geoerge Carlezone.I picked through some containers in the back of his buggy and we settled upon a price for the goods.George presented me with the items and then asked if I would like hooks to go with my purchase,he proceded to fasten them to the plugs while bs ing with the Hab Man. I was a pup on the beach and had nothing to show for my efforts this particular morning and George offerred me a fish to take back to the campground which I took him up on.He reached into his cooler and gave me a nice lean 25 pound specimen which was devoured that evening at site 19B.

Nice memories to close your eyes and remember a warm morning in June at The Race, when fishing was great and the company even better.

[Tagger]

Good stuff Flap ... guys ,,friend ,, thanks for sharing ..

[2na]

too funny Steve - it didn't take you a long to to post those up!

Mag, that is correct, that is one of his large pencils.

Sea, that's a typical Carlezon story. I can't believe he gave a fish to anyone, but the part about the hooks is classic George. Did he charge you extra?? He was a close friend of mine, I was fortunate enough to have many of those mornings.

Tattoo, the vast majority of Carlezon's plugs were zinc/steel screw eyes, but he did through wire some, darters and jointed pikies. (I kept a supply of stainless eyes, and just about the 1st thing I would do with every one of his plugs was to remove the zinc eyes or they would get rustylike the one Mag has.) When Steve came by to grab those a few weeks back I was telling him a story about how George would make his own eyes out of copper from electrical wire. He was a machinist by trade, so he had made up a jig that he would put a short piece of wire into then pull a lever, and the lever action would engage the wire, make a loop for the eye then twist. He would then epoxy those into the plug - the jointed darter at the top of Steve's 1st pic looks like it has at least one to tie to. He was a Depression era kid, so he didn't let much go to waste.

Jake, I owe you for that beatiful plug from the fest - I have a pencil and another needle for ya. See you on the beach!