Connecticut Surfcasters Feb Meeting Tim Coleman on Block

[wader-dad]

It is not my intent to keep announcing CSA meetings like a broken record- but its not every day that you get to hear Tim Coleman talk about Block Island. Mostly a question and answer format - informal.

Meeting is next Wednesday February 1, at 7 pm- location is about half a mile before the usual spot - in another Town of Madison CT meeting spot (used to be the old Town Hall on Route 1).

I will post directions. No fee to get in, don't have to be a member. If you come early enough you can stop at Rivers End on the way.

For future planning in case anyone is interested-

March 6- Jimmy Fee on fishing plugs in big water
April 4 -- Pat Paquette (Basic Patrick) on fishing the Outer Banks
May 2, Advanced Wetsuiting seminar by CSA members

The club guys catch big fish and I catch the speakers. Should be the other way around.

[GattaFish]

Well you have proven to be a Jedi Master....

[wader-dad]

I volunteered you for the wetsuiting seminar- so you need to do that.

[chefchris401]

May 2nd sounds like a good one.

your a good group of guys down there, had a great time at the last meeting.

[GattaFish]

Originally Posted by wader-dad

I volunteered you for the wetsuiting seminar- so you need to do that.

Huh?..... lol

A couple others as well right ??

[wader-dad]

Yes I am just starting to form the Wet Suiting Zulu Bravo Task Force- 4 or 5 guys. So don't worry you will have plenty of company. But we need you.

[tattoobob]

I wish it wasn't so far for me to drive I would love to hear Tim speak

[wader-dad]

Wow - what a memorable evening last night. Tim Coleman on Block in the 80's with Pat Abate and Dr. Frank Bush adding some of their thoughts and memories. Dennis - you got a mention or two.

Tim brought his jar of maybe 100 mustad 3x trebles all with straightened and mangled hooks from the house they used to rent every year. The huge bass were destroying their gear.

Even got some spot burning including an x on a white board where Tim caught his 67.

Was a privilege spending a night learning from these fine men.

[striperswiper75]

Great talk. Tim even dropped a spot in CT that I have always debated trying out. His "slip" last night about that spot has me set on fishing it this season.
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[Rob Rockcrawler]

I wish i could have made that one.

[DZ]

Originally Posted by wader-dad

Wow - what a memorable evening last night. Tim Coleman on Block in the 80's with Pat Abate and Dr. Frank Bush adding some of their thoughts and memories. Dennis - you got a mention or two.

Tim brought his jar of maybe 100 mustad 3x trebles all with straightened and mangled hooks from the house they used to rent every year. The huge bass were destroying their gear.

Even got some spot burning including an x on a white board where Tim caught his 67.

Was a privilege spending a night learning from these fine men.

I had plans to come but just couldn't make it. Last week I even asked Steve McKenna to come but he couldn't either. Love the jar of corn on the cobb holders. He tell the story of the "green cigars"?
DZ

[wader-dad]

Man if you and Steve came down it would have been EPIC.

He told the story of him getting stuck in the bramble trying to take a short cut up near the dentist's house with some big fish and his getting the hook in his nose and the New Jersey guys setting off fireworks when the finally got a 50 and the heavy guy who made it down to a spot and could not move any further and just stayed there all night and still caught fish in the high 40's and when they came back he was lying on a rock like a beached whale and snoring up a storm.

And the commercial guy with a tin boat who caught so many thousands of pounds of bass that a boat came to block with a truck just for him alone to get all of the fish that he had under tarps in his back yard.

And how they had beat up little cars that could hardly move and the New York guys came over with fancy expensive rigs and all kinds of the newest equipment. And they eventually kept a station wagon at the airport that got so much sand in it that plants started growing in the car and Tim told guys when they got in "hey don't disturb the landscaping".

Stuff like that- really a rollicking good time.

Why don't you tell the green cigar story

[GattaFish]

Originally Posted by wader-dad

And how they had beat up little cars that could hardly move and the New York guys came over with fancy expensive rigs and all kinds of the newest equipment. And they eventually kept a station wagon at the airport that got so much sand in it that plants started growing in the car and Tim told guys when they got in "hey don't disturb the landscaping".

Hmmm,,, At least I know for sure I am not from NY and I am on the right track as far as the car thing... Fishing,,,, well to be determined,,,,

[Joe]

Here's one story he left out.
I assume everyone has heard of "hungrys." It's a term that applies to people who really want a big fish and do all they can to get one.
Well, Tim flew over to Block Island one night and was fishing the west side, and ran into Art Lavallee, who asked if he was coming back to the Curtiss house for something to eat. This was late, late at night.
Tim said, "No, I brought something."
Then he proceeded to pull out two McDonald's hamburgers from his raincoat that were stale, ice cold and damp and ate them on the spot, instead of taking a break from the fishing. Art said they looked disgusting.
Tim's a mild-mannered guy and gentleman, but don't let that fool you - he wanted it as bad as anyone.

[GattaFish]

Today the giant size snickers fill the hungries and are also a great snack at 3 am... you can stick them right in your bag and swim all night long then open up an eat them,,, every once in a while you will get a leaker,,, But I still eat them too,,,,


Can't say enough how nice it was to hear the stories... I talked to Frank quite a bit... Nice guy.... Hopefully someday in my lifetime I will see that with fish over 40# consistently...

[DZ]

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

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

[JohnR]

Tim is a master!

I'm sure that would have been great to see.

DZ, the Surfcaster's Historian!