Proud of NJF today.... RIP LAB

[Michael82929]

Nothing funnier than endless pics of monster fluke on the deck on TNT with monger mania and two in the pink and one in the stink.... and pink thongs....lol on the rail...

Great times reading / hearing you guys enter and win fluke tournaments representing njfishing.com

This is by far in my opinion one of the classiest fishing / gaming sites out there.

Tom - Sorry for your loss, really am.... While I dont have the experience, I can identify with the sorrow you must be going through...

My dad always says... dont mourn my life.. I had it good, put a smile on it, and celebrate the rememberance of it...

[sportfishingusa]

My favorite is the phone calling ending good byes... We would talk, sometimes 10 minutes, sometimes 45 minutes, but in the end, we would be mid conversation laughing, and he was make a wise ass remark, chuckle, say good bye, and just hang up while i was talking.. Never got old and it would make me laugh my ass off every time we got off the phone with each other!

[SaltyAngler]

From all of the stories I'd heard and read (and the limited banter I had with him) Mike was one hell of a stand up guy, and equally a great fisherman. Before I even spoke to him once, his first comment to me (at my profile photo) was:

"Hey, where'd you pick up the short fish?"

Quite the comedian, that proverbial slab of lead with the heart of gold, I'm sure he's lambasting a few of us up in that great, Tog-filled pond. Peace be upon him, and blessings to his family. Godspeed, LAB.

[jmurr711]

Setting: Dark parking lot, 3:30am 15degrees in december up pulls a pickup with DMX or Biggie blasting who gets out, a 5 foot,50 year old grey haired white guy & says " yo Philly get my stuff" I am going to miss that so much

I had posted about buying a new fluke rod on here back in like 2010 or so next week me & moe went out on the monger when we docked Mike was there with 2 really nice bucktailing rods of his & said " here ya go kid don't waste your money but i had to give her 1 too so i know they would be used right"

before I had a cell phone whenver the Devils beat the flyers he would call & leave a message on my answering machine then it was a text.

I catch my 12.2 on the monger a little before PUOSU, he is at the dock with the cawfee & before we even are tied up he yells "12lber your odds just went to 1,000:1 you bl*ew ur lo@d way to early kid, thats lack of experience!"

Night ling trip on the k3 way back & I am talking to him about how I feel like I'm f#cking up taking so long to get through college & his response "to long what are you 23, I got holes in my underwear older then you"

Everytime someone new was around he would bring up me being from Philly & say " I spent a year in Philly 1 weekend." somehow it never got old

Like I told VInnie(Sportfishingusa) he woulda given us the shirt off his back but then laughed as either of us tried to fit in it he was a 1 of a kind person & we are all lucky for having been able to call him our friend.

[hartattack]

Some of my favorite Labisms:

- After meeting my son (same age as his son): " He's too skinny & good-looking to be yours ! "

- " You use your left hand on a spinning reel, why should you switch for a Conventional ? "

- He sold me a NIB Avet SX (lefty of course) for $100. I asked him if he's taking a loss on this, his reply " Never. I got it off of Bates for ~$100 worth of Steak. What I paid is what you paid. "

- His comment on my PUOSU odds was priceless: " The best fisherman in the Hart family is away at college " (my Daughter)

He touched all who ever met him. They broke the mold when they made him. Our loss is Heaven's gain. . . .

[Scotty]

Originally Posted by broken bobber

Great Idea Gerry.. the stories i have re endless.... and some I CANT EVEN MENTION HERE LOL......

while fishing tourneys or just out mike had no problem what so ever telling me hey there is so so... slow down and head over there, and when we as he would say, got in range, bam..... he would shoot a moon your way in histerical fashion, and if you were special to him you would get a shot of his "OSCAR GAMBLE" which we labeled his frontal pubic region...hahahaha...

i can see him now setting a hook on a fish and getting on his tippy toes while doing it..... snapping rod in half like no other.....always getting the first dogfish......just so many more things.....

Tom, I won't repeat it here, but were you there with Mike and "Wilson" the flounder? Funniest fishing story I've ever heard

[M Rod]

My last memory of Lab was over the winter months. I needed a bushel last minute and Lab told me to drive down to point and take a bushel he had hanging and leave the money on the boat. He barely knew me. I left the money in a cigarette pack and put a 6 oz bank sinker in the pack so the wind wouldn't blow it away. I still have his text in my phone after he found the cigarette pack. LAB- " Could have left me at least a 10 oz" LOL That was LAB for ya. I never did get to return to him his crab net and rope. RIP Buddy you were one of a kind.