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09-23-2020, 07:28 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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13 years since Habs passed
Can it be 13 years? I remember the shock when I came on here and saw the sad news that morning. John was a great guy. Glad I got to know him even just a little bit. I know so many of us will never forget him.....I know I won't.
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Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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09-23-2020, 07:35 PM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,425
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Need to have another Habs Tourney
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09-23-2020, 07:49 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,543
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Time does march on... How old was he? Wasn't in the obit.
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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09-23-2020, 07:50 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nightfighter
Time does march on... How old was he? Wasn't in the obit.
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If memory serves he was 53? |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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09-23-2020, 09:17 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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Thirteen years.
I remember getting the call just after pulling an all-nighter fishing. Joe Martins called.
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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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09-24-2020, 06:44 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: North Branford,Ct.
Posts: 7,654
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Shocking day. We just got off the Cutty water taxi when we heard the news. Kinda knock down our high from weekend. Have a couple of Johns needles to remember him. Many of us builders found inspirations from John.
One tip I got from John in my early years learning to fish needles. I asked him.how do u keep them up since they sank . John tells me once the plug hits the water come tight ( mpu reel makes this happen quicker) then reel quick to get it up then slow down retrieve, real slow!
To this day I use that tip and advise other new anglers to try this .
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09-24-2020, 07:15 AM
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My brother is bald
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Parts Unknown
Posts: 4,516
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RIP John. I still always have one of his needles with me when I go out.
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seals + plovers = 
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09-24-2020, 02:36 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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One of my best friends. He helped me load a door in my truck 2 days before he passed. I wrote a story entitled Fresh Pond Habs published in The Fisherman.
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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09-24-2020, 02:49 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: North Branford,Ct.
Posts: 7,654
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Paul when was the article written? I would like to look it up in the archives.
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09-24-2020, 03:00 PM
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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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Quote:
Originally Posted by pbadad
Paul when was the article written? I would like to look it up in the archives.
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Here you go, Bill.
https://www.thefisherman.com/article/fresh-pond-habs/ |
Co-Host of The Surfcast Podcast
"Out there in the surf is where it's at, that's where the line gets drawn in the sand between those who talk fishing and those who live it."
- a wise man. 
One good fish, a sharpie does not make...
Certified rock hopping billy goat.
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09-24-2020, 04:09 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tlapinski
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Thanks Toby. |
No boat, back in the suds.
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09-24-2020, 05:02 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: North Branford,Ct.
Posts: 7,654
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Great. Thanks T.
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09-24-2020, 06:55 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: South Shore
Posts: 506
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Great article. I'm happy to have a couple of his olive needles.
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09-25-2020, 09:24 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Back to C.Cod x'd Rangeley Me.
Posts: 922
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A 30" black needle hangs above a picture of Flaptail coming ashore in his "tincan" to meet the Professor and myself for lunch on Sandy Neck mounted on my shop wall.
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