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08-13-2011, 07:58 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 450
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Rip PLUGMAN
Dell Barber lost his fight with cancer.
Rip
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08-13-2011, 08:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 2,038
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Ts&Ps to those close to Plugman.
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08-13-2011, 08:09 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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Rest your oar, Plugman.
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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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08-14-2011, 03:31 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: CT
Posts: 448
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Man I saw a short documentary awhile back about him on youtube,when I was just getting into building plugs..Was a huge inspiration to me getting started in this hobby.Really sorry to hear of this, Wish I would have got to meet him.
RIP Del
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08-14-2011, 07:11 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Cumberland, RI
Posts: 2,264
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tight lines dell...
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Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement -- Keith Benning
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08-14-2011, 07:25 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Sturbridge MA
Posts: 3,127
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T&P's to the family of one of ours.
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Everything is better on the rocks.
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08-14-2011, 07:35 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Westfield MA
Posts: 64
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Very sad news--Del you will be missed
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08-14-2011, 07:47 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 450
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Last edited by onecastmike2003; 08-14-2011 at 08:14 AM..
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08-14-2011, 07:53 AM
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All up in the Interweb!
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: In the dog house.
Posts: 5,205
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Wow. It is going to feel off this fall not seeing him in the usual spots. My condolences to his family.
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08-14-2011, 08:04 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,691
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Sad. 
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08-14-2011, 08:08 AM
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Red Eye Jedi
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: East Facing
Posts: 4,374
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the Hill won't be the same. R.I.P.
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08-14-2011, 08:22 AM
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Great White Scup Hunter
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In the Corner...
Posts: 2,251
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Shame,,,
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08-14-2011, 08:24 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 10,295
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RIP
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08-14-2011, 09:33 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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I knew him well. Fished with him a lot in the early 90s. I have a ton of his plugs. They are not the prettiest in the world but they did catch fish, even bass, back when they were few and far between.
RIP old friend. Tight lines wherever you are.
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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08-14-2011, 10:04 AM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,425
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RIP
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Frasier: Niles, I’ve just had the most marvelous idea for a website! People will post their opinions, cheeky bon mots, and insights, and others will reply in kind!
Niles: You have met “people”, haven’t you?
Lets Go Darwin
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08-14-2011, 10:58 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Cumberland,RI
Posts: 8,555
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First met him in about 1980. Used to always see him from Charlestown to WH. I.d make it a point to buy a bulk of poppers each year. Always friendly and if he knew you he would keep you informed of where and when. Very few mornings I can remember when he wasn't along the East Beach area. Everybody made a big deal when he bought the new "Plugman" truck. 
Great guy and a part of the Surf Fishing scene for the almost 30 years I fished south county before taking the Canal plunge.
Rest in Peace Dell. |
Saltheart
Custom Crafted Rods by Saltheart
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08-14-2011, 11:02 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 797
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RIP Dell, will miss our morning conversations around various spots in soco.
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08-14-2011, 02:31 PM
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My brother is bald
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Parts Unknown
Posts: 4,516
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T and Ps sent
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seals + plovers = 
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08-14-2011, 03:08 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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A Del Barber story:
It was probably 89 or 90 and we were fishing Fresh Pond Rocks. Del was a fixture there. Well, he was fishing the right side of there rocks where he claimed there was a channel in the rocks (all BS). Anyway, Del needed to take a crap so he waddled up to the snow fence away from the rocks, dropped his waders around his ankles and commences to take a crap. All of a sudden he lost his balance and went ass over tea kettle and ended up like a turtle on it's back. Giant ass up in the air and his waders around his ankles. He starts yelling "Somebody want to help me"? Well as you can imagine this was just too good to mess with. Guys are taking pictures and hooting and hollerin' all over the beach. Del was getting madder and madder and, if memory serves me right, it was Habs who finally went over to help Dell. Course John made Del pay for it. 
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No boat, back in the suds.
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08-14-2011, 03:24 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
Posts: 7,260
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Rest in Peace Plugman
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Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey 
Recreational Surfcaster 99.9% C&R
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08-14-2011, 04:08 PM
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I Had A BLAST!
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: I'm from Manhattan, Live in CT., but my heart is in SoCo!
Posts: 1,132
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That is sad news. Many a time was spent just chatting with him, while he was casting his poppers in the channel,just before dark. I will miss him, for sure.
My prayers will go out to his family. RIP, old friend!
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Be encouraging, not discouraging
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08-14-2011, 06:58 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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he sure had a reverence for wood.... and it's attributes
REST in Peace Plugman
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