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12-07-2006, 02:56 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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I am sorry to hear that! I never met him but have heard many great things about him...and I have a few of his plugs I have found around the backside! Rest in peace George!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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12-07-2006, 03:14 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
Posts: 5,451
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Wow, sad news. Thanks for the notice John. I had the pleasure of talking with him many times and once at the MSBA show in Braintree at the old Armory I casually asked him if I could buy a couple of his plugs. He told me "no,but come out to the jeep with me for a second". We got out there and in the back he had boxes of his homemade plugs and he reached in and handed me a bunch and said, "here try these, they work for me pretty well".
I never got a jointed giant swimmer of his and was hoping he would come around and be able to make a few more. Now he is with all the other old guard on a new beach, God rest his soul.
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Why even try......... 
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12-07-2006, 03:14 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 5,945
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R.I.P. George.
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12-07-2006, 03:15 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 1,990
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wow, just sold 2 of his giant jointeds yesterday. Sad day for the Cape sands
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Sooner or later you're going to realize just as I did that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. - Morpheus
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12-07-2006, 03:37 PM
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backbeach
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: SE-MA
Posts: 60
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He will be missed. I hate to see another member of the "old guard" pass on. He was one of the first people I had the pleasure of meeting on the beach. He was a great surfcaster and a real character. This has been a bad year for losing good guys. I just heard this past week big Tom passed as well as Gerry dont know the last names though... Gerry drove a white dodge last I knew and drank Ballentine. I'm sorry I didn't get to know them as well as George, who I spent many a night fishing the back with. I have one of those monster pikies, and it is a backbreaker to cast for any length of time! Rest In Peace George, God Bless You!
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12-07-2006, 03:38 PM
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Cape Crusader
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Ashland, MA
Posts: 323
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That's sad news, he was an interesting guy. He told me some great fishing stories out there on the beach.
Maybe people will think its a little bit morbid, but every time I saw him out there over the last few years I'd buy a few plugs out of his truck, figuring one day soon he'd never be back. I probably have 15 of them. I remember running into him airing up on the way off the beach in early October 2005. I said, "See you next year, George" and his reply was "Maybe, but maybe not."
You can throw those pencil poppers a country mile....I've caught some nice bass on them.
Anybody who doesn't know who George is, have a look at some of the old photos on the wall in Nelson's in Provincetown if you ever get up there. You'll see him with some fish that will make your eyes pop out.
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12-07-2006, 03:43 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 118
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R.I.P. George
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