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Originally Posted by wader-dad
Man if you and Steve came down it would have been EPIC.
Why don't you tell the green cigar story
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The Story of the Green Cigars
Here is the condensed story as told to me by the late "Silent" George Thackery with additional input from Pat Abate.
George, Pat, and Tim were on island mid-November one season. They were at SW Point and met a few NY fishermen taking some nice bass on a needlefish plug of which they had never seen before that night . Thackery was so impressed with the needlefish plugs effectiveness that he went back to the mainland and made a half dozen for their return trip after Thanksgiving. On their return trip to the island George showed Pat and Tim the crude needles he built from dowels which were adorned with screw eyes and spray painted with green primer. For weight they had sheet lead wrapped near the tail. Tim and Pat weren't too impressed and heckled George calling his creations "Green Cigars". On their first night on island they all headed to Snake Hole; George fished the hole while Tim and Pat went around to the corners. George put on one of his homemade needles and within a few casts had a fish in the low 50s on the cobble, then caught another in the mid-40s. Pat and Tim came back after daybreak and there was George smiling with these two cows taken on his "green cigars". George definitely had the last laugh as Coleman and Abate asked if they could borrow one of his new creations. It was November 28th and Pat's birthday so George gave Pat the 40 and said "Happy Birthday". They were shipping bass at the time so it was a nice gift (and George didn't want to carry a 100 pounds of bass up the hill!). The "Green Cigars" would later be refined and were eventually coined the nickname "Silent Sand Eels".
DZ