Randon thoughts on the passing of Tim Coleman

[JDK]

I met Tim Coleman once in either the late 1970s or early 1980s.

I grew up in Stonington and the Fisherman Magazine was head quartered in Mystic. My brother hung around with Tim's Office Manager's son. We were over Dave's house and Tim was visiting. I mentioned to him that I spent a fair bit of time striper fishing the railroad bridges between Mystic and Stonington and having OK luck with rebels. He went out to his car and came back with a Smilin Bill bucktail and bottle of pork rinds and handed them to me. Showed me how to cut the pork rind and described how to fish them on the outgoing. I thought, and still do, that it was pretty cool to give a young kid who only owned a bike, fishing rod, and 2-3 rebels, a killer striper lure and technique.