Todays Visit With Black Bart

[Wave Loudly]

Great post Deep! Friends lost and found always make good food for thought.

[rarhomes]

Well I grew up a little farther south. Fishing the Keys and Biscayne Bay. Ya, you can guess um. Bill Curtis (He did many Wide World Of Sportsman with host Kurt Goudy) tought me how to fish the bay for bonefish, Vic Dunaway, Jimmy and Cathy Allbrite, Cecil Keith, Nat Raglan, Al Plfugler, Flip Pallot, John and Louie Dudas, Bob Lewis, John Donnell, Ted Jurasisk, John Emery, Ralph Dalph, Jose Wejebe, Stu Apte, Roy Huff Jr., Herman Lesern, Bob White and Bob Branham just to name a few. I have been honorer to have just met these people let alone fish with most of them. Some of the best best in the world. I have been blessed.

[Deep C]

All classics too... You missed Frankie Albright (that was her Albright special knot )and Ted Williams my old neighbors from the early years behind the Townsite Supermarket in Islamorada...
Gowdy lived up this way. Hell of a nice guy too. Took a shine to Missus Deep as she's from South Africa. He liked his visits there...
John Dudas I would have to consider possibly the single best fisherman I ever went up against...
Dunaway was still signing books at the Florida Sportsman shows a couple years ago while I was still doing them...

[Gut Wrench]

glad you got to see an old friend before it was to late,hopefully now you can spend somemore time together thinking about the old days and the good times...

i have alot of respect for you Deepc for making the effort,that takes a big man to do that..

[StalkerOutfitters]

Bart has been a friend of mine for many years. When I first started Stalker Outfitters I spent alot of time with him in his riviera beach office. I watched as he hand turned lures on his laythe, he was truely a master and an innovator. We became his first dealer in the North East and brought to the market a product that not many people have seen before. His stories are amazing and he has plenty. At the Miami Boat show he came by my booth to say hello and although he is not physically well, he still has the fire that he had when I met him. He examined my lures like a jewler examines diamonds. This is how he has always been and always will be. It is sad to see him in the condition that he is but truthfully to me he actually seemed better than he was a couple of years ago. He is a tough man and I don't see him going anywhere too soon.
Lee

[wickeditch]

deep c iam glad things made a turn for ya and at times i know the money end is a hard one to swallow, but honest true friends in is something you cant take for granted in life because its short and we half to make the best of it.
iam glad it was left on a good will.

i met him in the palm beach store, i was buying more lures to take back down south with me and wanted marlin setup and had a young gent in there doing a good sale job on me and i was asking alot of questions, after a little bit there was a voice that barked out of the office behind the big transom in the room and was summond to enter and he asked what i was after and where i was going and told him, he the asked the young man to go get to marlin setups, about 12 lures of diff colors and sizes which i know you know them.
what really took me off gaurd bart pulled all the lures out and laid them out in patterns and spent about 2 hours showing me how to set them,rig, and what to look for when your pulling them ,water conditions it just went on, i could of sat there by the hours listening to him like a sponge to gain all the knowledge. deep c please dont take this the wrong way but its hard to get good teaching from the old timmers and the ones thats willing to share a life of trail and errors and speak from the heart.

hope it all works out for you a d your family sir and hopefully one day ill met up with you and pick you brain a bunch,lol

good luck, shane