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Hi Martha,
First of all my condolences on the loss of John, he was very well liked and loved by many.
Welcome to the site.
I do remember fishing with John at the canal one afternoon before he was about to go on a tuna charter with the famous Terry Nugent of Riptide charters and as I was fishing and he was just watching and taking it in enjoying the sights, I said I have an Old John needlefish plug in my bag so why don't I try that. I usually bounce jigs off the bottom deep in the canal, so I put it on. Well first cast a bass hits it, then I got one after the other for a while, small fish but it sure put a smile on John's face.
He was quite a man Martha, I wish I had gotten to fish with and know him more. He was very kind to me. I fished with him and Bassmaster at Nobska one day a long time ago also.
He knew I had bought a flyrod, so he sends me a signed copy of his flyfishing book.
A friend of mine (John) was at a shop recently and bought a book of stories written by your husband and he spoke to your son or grandson about him.
We had a plug building get together at my home workshop in 2005 and he was interested in writing about it. I don't think the threads from those days have the correct pictures attached to them but it is possible to go back in the past of this forum and search for Plugfest 2005.
in the meantime, here are a couple of pictures
the cup of needles is famous
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