A good surfman died last night

[piemma]

He was a GREAT guy to fish with. I spent hundreds of hours with him over the years. I remember one December night it's about 9 degrees and we are fishing the Great Island Bridge for Shad. 9 friggin' degrees and I'm laughing so hard I'm crying and the tears are freezing on my face.

he says "we got to be nuts! It 9 degrees and we are freezing our ass off for shad. You can't even eat the bastages". So I said "maybe we should try". Ollie catches a shad, kills it and piles up some drift wood right in the parking lot, lights a fire and cooks a damn shad on a spit.

He say "God Damn Iemma, we killed it, we are eating the f**^%$ thing. We did and it was awful but funny even now.
He was just an easy going surf fisherman who loved to fish. He worked at Foxwoods in the later years and got off work at Midnight. We'd meet at 2:00 AM and fish till dawn.

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by piemma

He was just an easy going surf fisherman who loved to fish.

Or standing on the bar on a warm august morning with Ollie, Pipe Scott, you and I catching schoolies and small fluke on needles having a grand old time... he was suspicious of my wetsuit and van stall, but we got along fine He will be missed!

[afterhours]

RIP .....tight lines 4ever..

[piemma]

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

Or standing on the bar on a warm august morning with Ollie, Pipe Scott, you and I catching schoolies and small fluke on needles having a grand old time... he was suspicious of my wetsuit and van stall, but we got along fine He will be missed!

...and how many times did we catch him all alone in the back of the river.
Yeah, he never did understand your wetsuit but he liked you a lot and respected your fishing ability. He thought Eben was flat out crazy.

He was in Narragansett Surfcasters. You guys should maybe do something like a River Tourney for members only.